[Odonata-l] State/Regional Odonate Surveys

[Chris Hill]

Hi All,

I live in South Carolina, a state whose odonate fauna has not  
received a lot of attention. (See Dennis Paulson's maps linked at  
this page for details: http://www.ups.edu/x7040.xml )

Although I am chronically disorganized, so a poor candidate to  
organize anyone else, I still keep thinking (as I peck away at  
documenting the fauna of my home county) of the possibility of a  
statewide survey effort.

I know some of you out there must have been involved in such, so I  
had some questions for you.

First of all, do you have any recommendations for things I should  
read (about your own survey - process and/or results)?  I welcome any  
personal anecdotes and advice, but I understand completely if you  
want to save your breath and tell me "go read this."

But if you're willing to offer your personal experiences...

1.  Who initiated and organized the survey?

2.  Was there any involvement from state, provincial, or other  
regional government agencies?

3.  Who did the actual surveying?

[*How* was the surveying done?  I put this in brackets because I  
imagine the details for most surveys are published, but if you want  
to give a brief synopsis of who did what how, I'm all ears]

4.  What was the outcome?  Think broadly here.  For instance, I know  
Giff Beaton and others have surveyed Georgia pretty extensively in  
the last 5 years and one outcome was improvement of Giff's  
book, ,Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast.   
Even if your survey efforts had no published outcome, I'm interested  
in hearing about other positives - development of a local community  
of oders, training and increased knowledge for participants, whatever.

5.  How long did it take?

6.  If you're in or near SC, do you want to sign up?  :-)

Cheers,

Chris

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Christopher E. Hill
Biology Department
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, SC 29528-1954
chill AT coastal.edu
http://ww2.coastal.edu/chill/chill.htm

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