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Workshop Activities
 Following arrival in Bangkok, participants were bused to the Chanthaburi Campus of Burapha University, 230 km southeast of Bangkok near the Cambodian border. Accommodations, meals, and laboratories were centered here. Double-occupancy dormitory accommodations, laboratories, and classrooms were conveniently located to one another. Labs were well equipped with ample bench space, stereoscopic microscopes, fume hoods, and freezers. Meals (an interesting mixture of Thai and “western” cuisines) were catered, cafeteria-style, in the laboratory building. Three nine-passenger vans with drivers were available to transport participants from campus to various field locations; local fisheries department boats served as dive platforms and contracted commercial boats ferried participants to nearby offshore islands. Easily accessible habitats included extensive mudflats and oyster bars, tidal channels, mangroves, intertidal rocks, sand bars, and offshore rocky reefs. Group and team collecting activities included shovel-and-sieving, snorkeling, scuba diving, and cracking rocks for boring bivalves. Molluscan by-catch from commercial fishing trawls and the Chanthaburi fish market provided valuable additional species for study. Bivalve literature for use during the workshop was supplied by various participants. Most evenings included presentations by participating scientists on their research programs or laboratories. During the last few days, each trainee presented a short summary of the results of their team research at the workshop.
 Twenty-two field sites were visited; some of them multiple times by various research teams. Voucher specimens have been deposited in the Field Museum of Natural History, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Science Museum (Bangkok), and the home institutions of participating scientists (including The Natural History Museum, London; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires; Museu de Zoologia, São Paulo, Brazil; and Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History).
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