Great work Krushnamegh, Saji, Rohan, Gaurav and many others who are giving shape to this wonderful resource.
Cheers, Anuj On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Kunte, Krushnamegh <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > > Folks, after recovering the Butterflies of India website on 6 Feb. 2011 and > bringing the number of species pages to 135, we set ourselves what now > appears as a modest target of 300 species pages. In the past five months we > have made much progress and comfortably surpassed the target. Today, the > Butterflies of India website has 412 species pages, 146 lifecycles, and > approximately 6,000 reference photographs. Major additions to species pages > and to the collection of reference photographs came from recent field trips > of our team members to the Garo Hills in Meghalaya, and from Sikkim in the > Eastern Himalaya. The lifecycles were mostly the work of Dr. Saji K., who > has contributed more than a hundred lifecycles and nearly 2,000 images to > the website by now. Rohan Lovalekar and Gaurav Agavekar have taken some of > the most stunning images of Indian butterflies that I have seen so far, and > photographed hundreds of species in the past one or two years. In the past > 3-4 months, they have also tirelessly formatted many of these pictures for > the website, including those images given to them by others. Hats off to > Saji, Rohan and Gaurav! > > Here are two links that will lead you to most of the stuff that’s on the > website right now: > > > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/species-pages/history-of-species-pages-on-butterflies-of-india-website > > > http://ifoundbutterflies.org/species-pages/history-of-lifecycle-pages-on-butterflies-of-india-website > > Haneesh K. M., Subramanyam Kalluri, Hemant Ogale and Rudra Prasad Das have > recently started to format a lot of their images for the website, covering > areas of Bengaluru, Andhra Pradesh, southern Maharashtra and West Bengal, > respectively. This shall bring important regional representation of > butterflies and cover wing pattern variation of Indian butterflies on the > website. > > I hope that we will touch 500 species pages and nearly 8-10,000 reference > images on the website by the end of this year. Your contributions are always > appreciated, especially if you cover species that are not on the website > yet, contribute photographs from an area that is not well represented on the > website, or have captured unusual wing pattern variation in a particular > species. > > Feel free to write to me <[email protected]> with any > thoughts, suggestions and contributions. > > With best wishes, > > Krushnamegh. > ------------------------------------------------- > > Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD > > Post-doctoral Research Fellow > FAS Center for Systems Biology > Harvard University > 52 Oxford St., Northwest Lab Room 458.40-3 > Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. > > Ph: (617) 496-0078, Cell: (512) 577-1370, Fax: (617) 495-2196 > Email: [email protected] > Other emails: [email protected], [email protected] > > Personal website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kunte/index.htm > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Google profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/krushnamegh > > -- Enjoy
