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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Forwarding the following announcement to LEPS-L about the “eButterfly” informatics project, on behalf of Katy Prudic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Lawrence F. Gall, Ph.D.<br>
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Head, Computer Systems Office<br>
Informatics Manager, Entomology<br>
Executive Editor, Peabody Publications<br>
Lepidoptera Section Editor, Zootaxa<br>
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Peabody Museum of Natural History<br>
P.O. Box 208118, Yale University<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA<br>
<a href="http://www.peabody.yale.edu">http://www.peabody.yale.edu</a><br>
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email: <a href="mailto:lawrence.gall@yale.edu">lawrence.gall@yale.edu</a><br>
phone: 1-203-432-9892<br>
FAX: 1-203-432-9816<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">From fields or fens, mountaintops to meadows, even backyards and gardens, we’re all recording our butterfly sightings in notebooks, spreadsheets or with digital cameras. What if we could join
all of these checklists together into a massive, shared database of North American butterflies? With hundreds of thousands of checklists, what could we learn about their status, conservation and natural history?
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">Welcome to <a href="http://www.e-butterfly.org" target="_blank">
e-Butterfly</a> (<a href="http://www.e-butterfly.org/" target="_blank">http://www.e-butterfly.org/</a>), a checklist database where you can
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">share and organize your butterfly sightings, photos and collections, find new species, track your life list, and contribute to butterfly science and conservation.</span><a name="13db783e632cd93a_13db7678a6605a3b__GoBac"></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The e-Butterfly online submission protocol has many advantages for users:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Streamlined database entry forms</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">No more typos with foolproof species name and taxonomic authority entry</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Easy access and download of your personal butterfly database</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Personal state/provincial and national species lists</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Your own virtual butterfly collection</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Your data is safely backed up for you</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Standardized taxonomy approved, revised and continually updated by leading taxonomists</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Check out the quick start guide for entering data on e-Butterfly. For easier use, we recommend
<a href="http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/info/downloads/default.html" target="_blank">
updating your Internet Explorer </a>browser and <a href="http://www.e-butterfly.org/contents/tutorial" target="_blank">
reading</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNCH2Ky-Fzw&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">
watching</a> the tutorials. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">After familiarizing yourself with e-Butterfly, record submission becomes second nature. It’s faster with fewer errors than entering data into an excel spreadsheet and your data is automatically backed
up.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Curious? Login and explore e-Butterfly. Find out what butterflies other users might have found flying already in your region. View collections of photographs, checklists and more. You’ll soon want
to get started on adding your observations, past and present, to help build the greatest continent-wide database of butterflies ever assembled.
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<p style="background:white;background-attachment:scroll;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y:0%">
<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Join the growing community of butterfly enthusiasts, conservationists, and scientists on e-Butterfly. Together we can better understand how global changes are impacting butterfly biodiversity and
distribution across North America.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">We look forward to seeing you!
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The eButterfly Team </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="mailto:eButterflyusa@gmail.com" target="_blank">eButterflyusa@gmail.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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