WAC News

We have a student grant program!

This grant-in-aid is aimed at facilitating copepod research, including research supplies, field work, course/workshop attendance, visiting collections, etc. See the Student Grant page.

Charlie Miller's book

Charlie Miller's book, Oar Feet and Opal Teeth: About Copepods and Copepodologists, was published May 28, 2023 by Academic Press.

This book is about copepods, and the copepodologists studying them. You might see some faces you know inside!

Buy it from Oxford Press
Buy it on Amazon

Obituary

Sadly, our colleague, Dave McKinnon, passed away on November, 2021.

Alexander David McKinnon died peacefully in his home in Townsville, Australia on 24 November 2021. Surrounded by his wife Jocelyn, children Claire McKinnon Grant and Leigh McKinnon, he succumbed to complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 67 years old and had retired from his long-time position at the Australian Institute of Marine Science to spend more time with his family, including his four young grandchildren. [more ...]


WORMS Achievement award

Our very own WAC treasurer and Executive Committee member, Chad Walter is the 2021 recipient of the WORMS Achievement award. Warm congratulations to Chad. He makes WAC proud.

The Wilson and Monoculus Libraries

The bibliographic database was developed and is maintained by staff of the C.B. Wilson Copepod library, and contains all the known literature for copepods and branchiurans. At present over 75,000 bibliographic entries on copepods are in the database. Current staff members organizing the day to day operations of this library are T. Chad Walter, Janet Reid and David Damkaer. We gratefully accept donations of literature on all aspects of the Copepoda, and request that you send us a copy of all your future publications.

If you provide us with your pdf's or reprints in a timely fashion then we can quickly put your taxonomic information into the WoRMS database.

The Monoculus Library is located at the Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg am Meer – DZMB,Suedstrand 44, Wilhelmshaven , D-26382, Germany, attn: Pedro Martínez Arbizu.

 The Wilson Library is located at the Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center, MRC 534, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746 USA, attn: Chad Walter.


Obituary

Sadly, our colleague, John Wells, passed away on November, 2018.

Professor John Wells, who has died aged 83, was a research scientist, teacher, Professor of Zoology, Dean of Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, family man and community leader. He was a man of his time, surviving World War II, progressing to a career that stretched around the world. [more ...]

Obituary

Sadly, our colleague, Frank Fiers, passed away on May, 2018.

We are losing a friend and an internationally recognized scientist in the fields of taxonomy, phylogeny and ecology of the Copepoda.


Obituary

Sadly, our colleague, Nancy Alison Rayner, passed away on Decmber 12, 2017.

Nancy Rayner passed away unexpectedly in Kloof on12 December 2017, barely two months short of her 91stbirthday, following complications after a fall. Her demisemarks the sad loss, not only of a devoted mother of 5,grandmother to 13, and great-grandmother to 3, but alsoof South Africa’s premier freshwater micro-crustaceantaxonomist.

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Obituary

Sadly, our Ukranian copepodologist colleague, Prof. Dr. Vladyslav Monchenko, passed away on February 8, 2016.

He was 84 years old. An obituary containing an account of his many contributions to our discipline and aspects of his interesting personal profile is expected to be published soon in Crustaceana.