[NatureNS] Fwd: Introducing fwgna.org!

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Naturalists,

I'm forwarding this to alert those who don't know of it to the 
Freshwater Gastropods of North America project. Freshwater snails and 
limpets are a poorly understood element of the fauna which includes some 
big easy-to-learn species, and other smaller, more ambiguous species.

Rob Dillon is spearheading the effort to co-ordinate their study across 
North America, and he needs Canadian help!

There's an introduction to the larger species (from eastern Ontatrio) in 
our macro-invertebrate manual - http://pinicola.ca/invert_Tay.pdf

fred.
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Subject: Introducing fwgna.org!
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:34:48 -0400
From: Rob Dillon <dillonr@cofc.edu>
To: fwgna@hotmail.com

To the FWGNA group,

The Freshwater Gastropods of North America project is pleased to
announce one of the biggest steps forward in our twelve-year history,
www.fwgna.org <http://www.fwgna.org>. Come visit us again, for the first
time!

Returning users will immediately appreciate the fresh look and feel of
our new web site, brought to us by talented designer Steve Bleezarde.
Like previous versions of our site, fwgna.org may be entered
geographically, by any of the four states currently covered. Users now
also have the option of accessing our web resources taxonomically,
through either an alphabetical index or a systematic index. The former
index includes an extensive list of synonyms, both generic and specific.
The latter is sortable by state. Try both of these new portals to see
what we mean!

Perhaps a less striking improvement, but certainly as important, is the
significant upgrade to our coverage of Virginia. Over 500 new records
and six species have been added, bringing the total species indexed on
the site to 65. For each of the species confirmed (or reported) for
Virginia Atlantic drainages, we have developed one-page species accounts
and made them available as pdf downloads. The present renovation of our
site was made possible by funding from the Virginia Department of Game
and Inland Fisheries, to whom we offer our sincere thanks.

Users entering through the old front door at cofc.edu will be routed
directly to the new fwgna.org index page for the foreseeable future. But
direct links to older versions of any of the (several hundred!) internal
pages will eventually expire, and I'm not sure we'll be able to redirect
users very efficiently. So update your bookmarks!

And keep in touch,
Rob

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