From les.mehrhoff at uconn.edu Tue Feb 5 10:01:59 2008 From: les.mehrhoff at uconn.edu (Mehrhoff, Leslie) Date: Tue Feb 5 10:04:04 2008 Subject: [Neinvasives-announce] Forms and workshop suggestions Message-ID: <72F919DD7D07B440A4B45FA2B57EAC45018F98A8@EXCHANGED.mgmt.ad.uconn.edu> Dear IPANErs, I know some of you have tried to submit field forms and you have experienced problems. I apologize for this. This is one of the growing pains that is associated with going from something good to something that works better (even if not at the moment you want it to). We have been working with our partners at CIESIN (the guys who manage the IPANE data and website) to both improve the system and to clean up all these niggling little problems. I am glad to report that one of the big pains we think has been cleaned up satisfactorily but we need your help. If you have forms that you have either tried to submit with no luck or that you just haven't gotten around to sending in from last year's field season, please take a couple of minutes and try submitting one or two. If you have ANY problems, please email me and let me know precisely what happened or what went wrong. I will forward these to the computer whizzes at CIESIN. This is the only way we can really test the system. They are working on these things now so your timely assistance would be greatly appreciated by all of us. Without sounding like some sort of hokey commercial, we are really trying to get this right so it works easily for you. Thanks for your help. Second question. We are in the process of figuring out summer workshops and training sessions and arranging for places and times. In the past few years, we have offered advanced training sessions on such things as honeysuckles, privets, other tricky woody plants, grasses and graminoids, aquatic plants, little known herbaceous invasives and some that were specifically focused on early detection plants for specific areas. We'd like to hear from you which ones would be interesting to you (including new ideas) and that you would be likely to attend if possible. I am not sure how many we are going to do but we are considering offering advance training sessions twice, back-to-back, in different parts of New England. If you have any thoughts on what would be helpful or interesting to you, please email me and let me know. I'll throw them in the hopper from which we will ultimately choose what we will offer. We have some other new ideas that we'll be trying this summer too so please stay tuned, dig out your quadrangle maps and GPS units, and be ready to rock'n'roll this field season. Thanks for your time. Les Leslie J. Mehrhoff Ph.D. Director, Invasive Plant Atlas of New England Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department Box U-43 468 Torrey Life Sciences Building 75 North Eagleville Road University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3043 USA Office: 860-486-5708 FAX: 860-486-6364 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://invasives.eeb.uconn.edu/pipermail/neinvasives-announce/attachments/20080205/e12c186d/attachment.htm