Jake Adams

Full and part-time professional aquarist July 1997 – present. I was the manager of primarily marine aquarium stores in Denver and Atlanta from May 1999 - May 2001 and I was an aquarium consultant and performed private aquarium servicing for a retail aquarium company from June 2002-August 2004.

Baruch Institute Seawater Culture and Aquarium Facility design and maintenance technician. August 2002-present. I have set-up and maintained a variety of aquatic systems to house organisms from tropical and temperate benthic, reef, lagoon and intertidal habitats for educational, research and demonstration purposes.

Co-host for the advanced discussion forum of the international reef aquarium Internet bulletin board, www.zeovit.com .

Fresh and saltwater aquarist since 1996. I have housed aquatic organism from nearly all major phyla and classes with many individuals performing successful reproduction.

I am a senior in marine science at the University of South Carolina. I work in a physiology lab and I will continue studying coral physiology and ecology in Grad school .

ABSTRACT:

I Although aquarists may be developing a basic understanding on the properties of light, they are still very much in the dark when it comes to understanding water flow. The study of how objects are affected by moving fluid is called fluid dynamics.

Fluid dynamics may be used to describe the particles, nutrients and gases which are transported by moving fluids. This presentation will review some of the science on the interaction of water flow and corals. By offering aquarists some background understanding of how water moves, I hope to encourage coral aquarists to re-evaluate water movement in their aquaria. By applying the properties of moving fluids, it is possible to provide better and more relevant water flow for corals.