Chairperson of the Local Organizing Committee of 10^th ICOC

 Dear Copepodologists,

The local organizing committee is delighted to invite you to participate in the 10^th International Conference on Copepoda (ICOC), to be held in the charming city of Pattaya, from July 13 to 19, 2008. After Taiwan in 2002 and Tunisia in 2005, this year ICOC returns to Asia for the third time and takes place in Southeast Asia for the first time. ICOC is a premier conference of the World Association of Copepodologists (WAC) organizing every three years to bring together world-leading researchers to disseminate their latest research results and allow cross-disciplinary exchange of knowledge. The 10^th ICOC will again extend our tradition to gather together copepodologists from all over the world to share their most recent and advanced findings.

It is our pleasure to host you in Asia Pattaya Beach Hotel, which is located in South Pattaya overlooking the Gulf of Thailand. Please accept our invitation to participate in the 10^th ICOC and it will certainly be our pleasure and honor to meet you in Pattaya. If you have any further query regarding the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to meeting you at the 10^th ICOC in 2008 in Thailand.