Hi It will be nice to go ahead and plan few outings (preferably once a month) initially to know members and form groups in each city. Once we know few people, we can take up the data compilation.
For Bangalore, Krushnamegh may announce his date and time for GKVK and members can join him to start with. Once they are familiar with methodology, they may replicate it in their own areas with sub groups for members. Aparna please go ahead and plan other places, till Krushnamegh returns. It will be nice to have outing in each city once a month for new members to learn form experienced members. So members form all cities are welcome to announce the outings on group. So members from Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Trivendrum, Pune .... we are looking forward to announcements. Regards, Vijay --- In [email protected], Krushnamegh Kunte <krushnamegh@...> wrote: > > Aparna, you have already taken the lead, so why don¹t you go ahead and put > together a list of us in BLR? If we are going to do this on a regular basis, > I would suggest that we identify two or three good spots to watch > butterflies in and around BLR and start counting butterflies there twice a > month. That will be a very important dataset in the long term from which we > will learn a lot. Watching butterflies together on its own is good, but > systematic population-level data collection will go a much longer way. I am > willing to do this on GKVK campus, so people from that part of town can join > me if they wish. Rohit Girotra goes to the reserve forest near house on a > regular basis, maybe a team from that part of town can start working there. > Perhaps the various local teams could meet once in a while to exchange notes > on species identification, compile data and chat about butterflies. > > With best regards, > > Krushnamegh. > ------------------------------------------------- > > Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD > > Ramanujan Fellow and Reader > National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) > Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) > GKVK, Bellary Road, > Bengaluru 560065, India. > Ph: +91 80 2366-6001/02/18/19, ext 6410 > Ph (London): +44 7831-204-169 > Mobile: + 91 9483-525-925 > Email: krushnamegh@..., krushnamegh@... > Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ > > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Emails: krushnamegh@..., krushnamegh@... > > > > From: Aparna V K <bizzare.appu@...> > Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:25:25 +0530 > To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Butterfly India needs a little more support > from us. > > > > > > > Hi, > > A while ago there was a discussion on the group to start outings in > different regions. Can we start this again? A lot of new comers like me can > learn a lot through such outings and interactions. I live in bangalore and I > see that quite a few of us from around here. Can we start 2 outings per > month basis? I am willing to co-ordinate the arrangements. > > -- > Aparna > -- Enjoy
