NYCkayaker Anable Basin Re: Manhattan Circumnavigation, July 15

[William]

Erik, 
Pleas post location, perhaps directions of Anable
Basin, If on the Hudson, what lies directly across on
the NJ side? 
Thanks! 
Will of Teaneck NJ 

--- Erik Baard <erik at licboathouse.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> The LIC Community Boathouse plans to organize a
> Manhattan 
> Circumnavigation on July 15, launching from Anable
> Basin at roughly 
> noon and returning at 10PM, to enjoy the sunset over
> lower Manhattan. 
> We plan another on August 12, at night.
> 
> One added bit of fun on July 15 is that one
> out-of-town guest (well, 
> nearly extraterrestrial!) guest will likely be my
> friend David 
> Grinspoon, a leading astrobiologist, an acclaimed
> author, and a fun(ky) 
> musician. You just can't get away from a few hours
> with him without 
> feeling a new fascination for the world.
> 
> More about him here, from his book publicist:
> 
> David Grinspoon is an internationally known
> Planetary Scientist who is
> funded by NASA to study the surface and atmospheric
> evolution of
> Earthlike planets elsewhere in the universe.
> Grinspoon is being awarded
> the 2006 Carl Sagan Medal by the American
> Astronomical Society (to be
> presented this October). He is Curator of
> Astrobiology at the Denver
> Museum of Nature and Science Adjunct Professor of
> Astrophysical and
> Planetary Science at the University of Colorado. Dr.
> Grinspoon serves as
> a frequent advisor to NASA on space exploration
> strategy, and is lead
> scientist for astrobiology on an instrument that
> will fly on NASA’s next
> Mars rover. He is Interdisciplinary Scientist for
> Climate Studies on
> Venus Express, the European Space Agency’s mission
> which is currently in
> orbit around Venus. He has also lectured and
> published widely. His first
> book, Venus Revealed, (Perseus Books, 1998) was a
> Los Angeles Times Book
> Prize finalist. His latest book, Lonely Planets: The
> Natural Philosophy
> of Alien Life won the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary
> Award for Research
> Nonfiction. Entertainment Weekly called Lonely
> Planets “proof that life
> on this planet is both intelligent and funny.”
> Grinspoon’s popular
> writing has appeared in Slate, Scientific American,
> Natural History, The
> Sciences , Astronomy, the Boston Globe, the Los
> Angeles Times and the
> New York Times. His technical papers have been
> published in Nature,
> Science, and numerous other journals. Dr. Grinspoon
> has been featured on
> numerous television (PBS's Life Beyond Earth; BBC's
> The Planets) and
> radio (NPR’s Science Friday and Weekend Edition,
> Wisconsin Public Radio,
> BBC World Service) shows, and he is a regular
> astrobiology correspondent
> for ABC Radio. He has given invited talks at
> international conferences
> throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia.
> Grinspoon is also an
> award-winning musician who has played guitar and
> sung in several great
> bands destined for obscurity. In fact, Dr. G played
> lead guitar for a
> band called the Geeks years before being a geek
> became cool. Grinspoon
> holds degrees in Philosophy of Science and Planetary
> Science from Brown
> University and a doctorate in Planetary Sciences
> from the University of
> Arizona. He lives in Denver with his wife,
> photographer Tory Read, and
> three highly intelligent cats.
> 
> For more, see www.lonelyplanets.net or
> www.funkyscience.net
> 
> Get in touch if you'd like to join, at launch or en
> route. Hope to see 
> you on the water!
> 
> Circular regards,
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
> 
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