January General Meeting

USA Dive Club members and their guests are invited to attend either an in person meeting or a virtual meeting using Zoom.

The IN PERSON MEETING will be held at our Regular location:

Aloft Hotel
202 SE 5th Avenue
Delray Beach, FL 33483

To Attend the ZOOM MEETING:

You must register in advance for this meeting. Click on the link below to register. Members bringing a guest should send the guest's name and email address to president@usadiveclub.org so the guest's registration will be approved. Members and guests must register using this link.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpd-ygrTMoGtUfdNkYStgo1mBcH9Ga7Ix9

Please join the meeting a little early to allow time to admit people from the waiting room before the meeting starts.

We will start the meeting with 10 minutes of social time so we can catch up with our friends. Then we will turn the meeting over to our speaker.

Program:

Mike Sipos is a Florida Sea Grant Agent for University of Florida IFAS Extension office in Collier County and a native to Southwest Florida. Michael received his BS in Zoology and MS in Fisheries Aquatic Sciences from the University of Florida. Mike’s previous experience includes being a university fisheries biologist and working with aquaculture operations from FL to around the world. In his current position, Mike educates stakeholders to support his programmatic areas of sustainable fisheries, environmental literacy and stewardship.

Invasive, alien, exotic, nonnative? What do they all mean? Come to this seminar to learn the correct terminology used when speaking about invasive organisms, the process of invasion, why Florida is so special and what kind of
environmental and economic damage invasive organisms create. The talk will also have a few species profiles of commonly encountered coastal invaders of the scaled variety with steps you can take to make a difference!