Demetrio Boltovskoy, Associate Professor
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires
C1428EHA Buenos Aires Argentina
Tel. +54 (11) 4576-3300, Ext. 248
 Fax +54 (11) 4576-3384
Email demetrio@bg.fcen.uba.ar
Languages: Spanish, English
Area of Expertise: South Atlantic, protists

Janet M. Bradford-Grieve, Consultant
NIWA Wellington
301 Evans Bay Parade, Private Bag 14901
Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
Tel. +64 4 3860362
Fax +64 4 386 2153
Email j.grieve@niwa.co.nz
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: New Zealand coastal waters, calanoid copepods

Ann Bucklin
Professor and Head, Department of Marine Sciences
Director, Marine Sciences and Technology Center
University of Connecticut - Avery Point
1080 Shennecossett Road
Groton, CT 06340 USA
Tel. 860-405-9208
Fax 860-405-9153
Email: ann.bucklin@uconn.edu
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: molecular systematics of crustacean zooplankton
website

Rubén Escribano,  Associate Professor
Marine Biology Station at Dichato
Department of Oceanography
Universidad de Concepcion
Concepcion, CHILE
Tel: 56-41-683247
Fax: 56-41-683902
Email rescribano@udec.cl
Languages: Spanish, English
Area of Expertise: Marine Zooplankton Ecology, copepods
website

Steven Haddock, Research Scientist
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039 USA
Tel. 831-775-1793
Fax 831-775-1620
Email haddock@mbari.org
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: gelatinous zooplankton

Steve Hay, Research Scientist
FRS Marine Laboratory
PO Box 101, Victoria Road
Aberdeen, AB11 9DB, Scotland
Tel. +44 1224 295448
Fax +44 1224 295511
Email S.Hay@MARLAB.AC.UK
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: North Sea, copepods

Russell R. Hopcroft, Assistant Professor
Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220 USA
Tel. 907-474-7842
Fax 907-474-7204
Email hopcroft@ims.uaf.edu
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: Arctic ecosystems

Ahmet Kideys, Associate Professor
Institute of Marine Sciences
P.O. Box 28
33731, Erdemli, Mersin, Turkey
Tel. +90 (324) 5212406
Fax +90 (324) 521232
Email kideys@gmail.com
Languages: Turkish, English
Area of Expertise: Black and Caspian Seas, ctenophores
website

Larry Madin, Senior Scientist
Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
Tel. 508-289-2739
Fax. 508-457-2169
Email lmadin@whoi.edu
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: gelatinous zooplankton, tunicates

Webjørn Melle, Research Scientist
Institute of Marine Research
P.O. Box 1870 Nordnes
5817 Bergen, Norway
Tel. +47 55238477
Fax +47 55238584
Email webjorn.melle@imr.no
Languages: Norwegian, English
Area of Expertise: Norwegian Sea, copepods

Vijayalakshmi R. Nair, Consultant
National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre
Dr. Salim Ali Road, P.B.No.1913
Kochi-682 018 India
Tel: 0484-2390814
Fax 0484-2390618
Email: vijayalakshmi40@hotmail.com
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: Indian Ocean, chaetognaths

Shuhei Nishida, Professor
Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
1-15-1 Minamidai, Nakano
Tokyo 164, Japan
Tel. +81 3 5351 6476
Fax +81 3 5351 648
Email nishida@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Languages: Japanese, English, Chinese
Area of Expertise: Southeast Asia, copepod taxonomy

Mark Ohman, Professor and Curator
SIO Pelagic Invertebrates Collection
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code: 0218
La Jolla CA, 92093 USA
Tel. 619-534-2754
Fax 619-534-6500
Email mohman@ucsd.edu
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: Pacific Ocean, copepods and euphausiids

Annelies C. Pierrot-Bults, Senior Researcher
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam
Mauritskade 61, 1062 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (20) 525 7194
Fax +31 (20) 525 540
Email pierrot@science.uva.nl
Languages: Dutch, English
Area of Expertise: chaetognaths

Song Sun, Director
Institute of Oceanology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao 266071, CHINA
Tel: +86 532 2898598
Fax: +86 532 2868008, 2898612
e-mail: sunsong@ms.qdio.ac.cn

Erik V. Thuesen, Associate Professor
Laboratory One, The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway Northwest
Olympia, Washington 98505-0002
Tel. 360-867-6584
Fax 360-867-5430
Email thuesene@evergreen.edu
Languages: English
Area of Expertise: gelatinous zooplankton

Colomban de Vargas, Researcher 1 - CNRS
Roscoff Marine Station
Place Georges Teissier
BP74
29682 Roscoff Cedex
FRANCE
Tel. +33 2 98 29 23 34
Email: vargas@sb-roscoff.fr 
Languages: English, French
Area of Expertise: planktonic foraminifera

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Colomban de Vargas, Visiting Assistant Professor
Institute of Coastal and Marine Sciences, Rutgers University
71 Dudley Road
New Brunswick NH 08901 USA
Tel. 732-932-6555 x. 236