Linda Duguay, director of the USC Sea Grant program, was selected to participate in a National Science Foundation workshop in China to discuss a foundation-supported ocean science education project and its possible application to outreach efforts by Chinese scientists and educators. Chen and Wang escorted 13 people — Duguay from USC and scientists, educators and graduate students from other U.S. institutions — to Beijing. They had meetings in Beijing and at universities in the port cities Xiamen and Qingdao. The group returned to the United States on March 13. The upcoming workshop in China was developed by two scientists from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Professor Robert Chen, who was involved with COSEE-New England, and research scientist Xuchen Wang traveled together to China in 2006 and began to develop the proposal for a COSEE-China planning workshop.