Dr. Rosamma Stephen (center), CMarZ Network Taxonomic Expert, from the National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi, Karala, India, visited the lab of Dr. Sigi Schiel at the Alfred- Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany in July 2006 to share her expertise in Copepoda of the families Calanidae, Paracalanidae, Aetideidae, Lucicutiidae, Heterorhabdidae, Arietellidae, and Temoridae.  From there, she traveled to Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. in the U.S. to work on the creation of species pages for some of these copepods in the lab of Dr. Peter Wiebe. Rosamma Stephen visits Woods Hole and Ann Bucklin, Peter Wiebe and Nancy Copley.  July 2006

Rosamma Stephens (third from right) during a copepod taxonomy course in the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (Germany) and Holger Auel, Astrid Cornils,Janina Tuning, Max Schulz and Petra Schmitt.