NYCkayaker Anable Basin Re: Manhattan Circumnavigation, July 15

[Erik Baard]

Hi,

For those of you less familiar with Anable Basin, it's just north of 
the Pepsi sign and south of the Queensboro Bridge on the LIC waterfront 
of the East River. Please see our DIRECTIONS tab for more information.

Look forward to seeing you on the strait!

Warm regards,

Erik

On Jul 7, 2006, at 9:53 AM, William wrote:

> 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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