Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network

2012 Intermediate Training Workshops

• Recommended for: Monitors and more advanced butterfly enthusiasts with some identification experience or at least one year in the field.
• Description: This workshop is being presented three times this year.

  The workshop will review improving your data and data entry methods and go beyond the beginners checklist and discuss the identification marks of other butterflies that monitors may encounter. The entire workshop will run 2 hours.

  Session 1
  • Presented by: Doug Taron
  • Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon Drive, Chicago
  • Date and time: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 6 PM to 8 PM.
  • Registration: Registration is required. Call Karen Wilson at 773-755-5131.
  Session 2
  • This workshop has been postponed due to the NATO conference and protests in Chicago.
  • Presented by: Doug Taron
  • Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon Drive, Chicago
  • Date and time: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 10 AM to noon.
  • Registration: Registration is required. Call Karen Wilson at 773-755-5131.
  Session 3
  • This workshop has been canceled.
  • Presented by: Tom Peterson
  • Location: Fermilab, Wilson Hall, the main hi-rise building at Fermilab, conference room 1 North.
  • Date and time: Saturday, June 2, 2012, 10 AM to noon.
  • Registration: Registration is required. Call Karen Wilson at 773-755-5131.

Directions to Fermilab Wilson Hall:
There are two entrances into Fermilab - one on the west side from Kirk Road at Pine Street, and one on the east side from Rt. 59 at Batavia Road. You can use either entrance. You will need a photo id to show the security guard. Then tell him you are attending the IBMN butterfly training workshop given by Tom Peterson. Take the main road through Fermilab to the main high rise building, Wilson Hall. Enter the main front doors of Wilson Hall into the atrium. Room 1 North is on the right (west side of the atrium) on that first floor atrium level.

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