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Raja Ampat
Indonesia
Southeast Asia
Contact: Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema, National Natural History Museum, Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands

In 2006 & 2007 presented by: Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema
The Dutch-Indonesian-American marine biodiversity expedition to the Raja Ampat region in West Papua, Indonesia started.

Follow their progress with colourful images and stories in their webblog:
www.naturalis.nl/papua2007

Raja Ampat Nature Reserve: http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=8121&level=nat
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Click to download Hoeksema-NL_Taf_EDIT-WP7-Overseas_2007-03.pdf


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1-Dr. Ronald Fricke, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (Germany)
Expertise: Fishes
2-Patricia Mergen, Africa Museum (Belgium)
3-Merijn Bos, State Natural History Museum (Germany)
Expertise: Coleoptera, Hymenoptera: Formicidae
4-Suzanne Williams, The Natural History Museum (UK)
Expertise: tropical marine gastropods in the groups Turbinidae and Trochidae.
5-JOSE LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain)
Expertise: Cynipoidea and Chalcidoidea
6-David Reid, Natural History Museum (UK)
Expertise: Shallow-water marine gastropods, especially Littorinidae, Pomatiasiade, Neritidae, Patellidae, Muricidae
7-Cees van Achterberg, Natural History Museum, Naturalis (the Netherlands)
Expertise: Hymenoptera, Braconidae
8-Yde de Jong, Zoological Museum Amsterdam / National Herbarium of the Netherlands (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Seaweeds (marine benthic), especially red filamentous algae (Ceramiales)
9-Bert W. Hoeksema, Natural History Museum, Naturalis (the Netherlands)
Expertise: Fungiidae
10-Christoph Häuser, Museum für Naturkunde (Germany)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
11-Sandra McInnes, Bristish Antarctic Survey (UK)
Expertise: Tardigrada
12-Daniele Sommaggio, DiSTA, Bologna University (Italy)
Expertise: Syrphidae
13-Fabio Mosconi, Università La Sapienza (Italy)
Expertise: Lepidoptera (Butterflies and moths); Cave Lepidoptera
14-Erik J. van Nieukerken, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis (Netherlands)
Expertise: Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea and general Microlepidoptera
15-Rob van Soest, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Expertise: Sponges (Porifera)
16-Stefano Draisma, Nationaal herbarium nederland - universiteit leiden (Netherlands)
Expertise: macroalgae
17-Gerard van der Velde, Institute for Water and Wetland Research (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Flatworms, Crustaceans (Malacostraca), Leeches, Molluscs
18-Bastian Reijnen, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis (Netherlands)
Expertise: Gastropods associated with soft corals
19-Romain Edouard GARROUSTE, MNHN (France)
Expertise: insects : Hemiptera Heteroptera (terrestrial, aquatic and MARINE) For western Europe : Odonata
20-Charles Fransen, National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis (The netherlands)
Expertise: Caridean shrimps, Decapoda, Crustacea
21-Eva van der Veer, Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)
22-Leontine E. Becking, National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Sponges
23-Charles Messing, Nova Southeastern University (USA)
Expertise: Living Crinoidea
24-Kim Jacobsen, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium)
Expertise: RMCA WP7/8 new collaborator
25-Leen van Ofwegen, National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis (Netherlands)
Expertise: Octocorals
26-Tatiana Dautova, Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Expertise: Octocorallia, Hexacorallia
27-Salim Dautov, Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Expertise: Echinodermata
28-Maria Zenina, Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern branch of Russian Academy of Science (Pussia)
Expertise: Crustacea: Ostracoda
29-Samuel James, (USA)
Expertise: Earthworms, including molecular phylogeny and DNA barcoding
30-Miguel Leal, (Gabon)
Expertise: angiosperms
31-Andrzej Woźnica, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Poland)
Expertise: Heleomyzidae s. lato, Trixoscelididae, Cnemospathididae - Diptera
32-Tadeusz Zatwarnicki, Opole University (Poland)
Expertise: Ephydridae (Diptera)
33-Petra De Block, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Belgium)
Expertise: Rubiaceae
34-Christian Komposch, Mag. Dr., OEKOTEAM - Institute for Animal Ecology and Landscape Planning (Austria)
Expertise: Taxonomy, zoogeography and faunistics of arachnids, especially harvestmen (Opiliones) and spiders (Araneae); actual study (paper, in press) of endemic harvestmen, spiders and scorpions of Austria (Eastern Alps); list of publication see http://www.oekoteam.at/christian.php
35-Fabio Cianferoni, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia (Italy)
Expertise: Hemiptera Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptopodomorpha
36-Giuseppe Mazza, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia (Italy)
Expertise: Aquatic Insects
37-Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, University Of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Expertise: Strepsiptera and their hosts
38-Dirk Stubbe, Ghent University (Belgium)
Expertise: macrofungi, Lactarius
39-Kobeke Van de Putte, Ghent University, department of biology, research group mycology (Country)
Expertise: Macrofungi, Lactarius & the Lactarius volemus species complex
40-Filippo Maria Buzzetti, WBA-World Biodiversity Association (Italy)
Expertise: Orthoptera; Heteroptera: Gerromorpha
41-Vincent Vedel, INRA Kourou, Guyane (France)
Expertise: Spiders, myriapods
42-Lars Krogmann, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (Germany)
Expertise: Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps) and Pompilidae (spider wasps)
43-Stan hutto , (USA)
44-Juliane Schaer Juliane Schaer, Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany (Deutschland)
Expertise: Chiroptera
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46-Thomas Ziegler, German Primate Centre GmbH (Niedersachsen, Germany)
Expertise: Primates
47-Sancia E.T. van der Meij, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Coral-associated organisms
48-Harald Komposch, OIKOS - Institute for ecology and basic research (Austria)
Expertise: lichens
49-Patrick Grootaert, Department Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium)
Expertise: Diptera, Empidoidea
50-Mitko Karadelev, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics (Macedonia)
Expertise: Fungi, Macromycetes, Basidiomycetes. Aphyllophorales:Corticiaceae & Polyporaceae
51-Birgit Gemeinholzer, bgbm (germany)
52-Floris Breman, Royal Museum for Central Africa and the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (Belgium)
Expertise: Birds, Fish, invertebrates moths, tephritid fruitflies, coleoptera
53-Felix Javier Gonzalez Estebanez, University of Leon (Spain)
Expertise: Lepidoptera
54-Anna Nesterovich, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)
Expertise: Freshwater algae
55-Ali Halajian, Tuscia university,Italy (Iran)
Expertise: Parasites, Helminthology, Birds helminths
56-hannah siri huebner, museum koenig, bonn (germany)
Expertise: thesis about morphology and taxonomy of amphipods, biomolecular methods
57-Tanja Rogatsch, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Austria)
Expertise: Spiders (Araneae), (Opiliones, Heteroptera) in cooperation with Dr. Christian Komposch & Mag. Thomas Fries
58-József Geml, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Expertise: Fungi
59-Mariana Yazbek, IBSAR - American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
Expertise: Prunus, Flowering plants
60-Arne Saatkamp, IMEP - Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de Paléoécologie (France)
Expertise: Bryophytes (Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotae), Vascular plants,
61-LUIGI PANNO, DEPARTMENT OF PLANT BIOLOGY - MYCOTHECA UNIVERSITATIS TAURINENSIS- MUT (ITALIA)
Expertise: FUNGAL BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMATIC OF MARINE FUNGI, IDENTIFICATION OF ANAMORPHIC/TELOMORPHIC ASCOMYCETES AND BASIDIOMYCETES (MICRO and MACROFUNGI).
62-Martin Just, Biokontakt o.s. (NGO) (Czech Republic)
Expertise: Coleoptera, biogeography, environmental impacts, nature conservation.
63-Paramjit Singh, (India)
Expertise: Taxonomy of temperate and alpine plants especially grasses and bamboos, interest in Nomenclature
64-Martin Kubiak, Biozentrum Grindel & Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (Germany)
Expertise: Trichoptera (all groups)