World Association of CopepodologistsWelcome to the website of the World Association of Copepodologists ! Copepods are among the most abundant metazoans on Earth and can be found almost everywhere there is water - from high-altitude lakes in mountain ranges, down to the depths of the ocean trenches. Copepods dominate the zooplankton, they are super-abundant in sediments, and they are parasitic on virtually every phylum of animals from sponges to chordates (including reptiles and mammals). This website will help you find out more about this fascinating group of crustaceans. The World Association of Copepodologists (WAC) is a nonprofit international organization whose purpose is to promote research on Copepoda by facilitating communication among interested specialists.  The business of the WAC is conducted primarily at a triennial business meeting held during each international conference on Copepoda. Since 1987, conferences have been held at venues in Asia, Africa, North and South America, and Europe. The last International Conference on Copepoda (our 10th) was held in Pattaya, Thailand in July 2008. To view and download a white paper resulting from the 2008 workshop on Copepod Genomics, click here. More information is available here. The 11th International Conference on Copepoda will be held in 2011 (10-15 July 2011), in Merida, Mexico. For more information on the 11th ICOC, contact the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, Eduardo Suarez-Morales at esuarez@ecosur.mx. 
Continuity and communication between conferences was previously provided only through the newsletter Monoculus. WAC is now using both Monoculus and our website to facilitate communication among copepodologists worldwide. We welcome your suggestions for improvements and additional features!
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