The SANIBEL CAPTIVA SHELL CLUB will meet via ZOOM for the first time after Hurricane Ian to open the 2022-2023 season. It will take place on Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 2:00 PM EST.
All Active Club members will be emailed a link to watch the presentation via Zoom. If you’re not a current member and would like to participate this season please follow the link below to become a member.
Our guest speaker will be Dr. José Leal, PhD, who is the Science Director and Curator of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel Island.
“My Natural History Travelogue” is the title of his presentation. Dr. Leal will be speaking about his life travels and expeditions, presenting an account of his most remarkable journeys searching for and studying mollusks in different parts of our living planet.
BIO
Dr. José H. Leal was Director of the Shell Museum between February 1996 and August 2013, and is now its Science Director and Curator. Dr. Leal received his PhD in Marine Biology and Fisheries from the University of Miami.
His love for shells and sea life goes back to his childhood years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an Assistant Editor for Sea Frontiers Magazine (Miami), a Visiting Professor at the MusĂ©um National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (Washington, DC).
Dr. Leal holds honorary faculty positions at the University of Miami and Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers), where he is an affiliate member of the Coastal Watershed Institute. He is also a past president of the American Malacological Society and of Conchologists of America, a past board member of the Florida Association of Museums, an Accreditation Peer Reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums, and editor of The Nautilus. In March 2010, under his leadership, the Museum was awarded its first accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums.
We hope you will join us!