Paul Waggoner helpfully led the preparation of a Forest Identity Tutorial taking a novice step-by-step through the equation, the Forest Identity, at the heart of our November 2006 PNAS paper. The tutorial, Defining and Using the Forest Identity, includes some new analyses (for example, about Mediterranean forests), some new Forest Identity slides showing the power of the Forest Identity, and refers to a growing stock spread sheet with growing stock data for 144 countries in 1990 and 2005. Finally, the tutorial introduces our new phrase “Carbon Orchards,” which updates the notion of forests for the 21st century.

In a May 2006 workshop in the Netherlands we helped join the Census of Marine Life and the Consortium for the Barcode of Life to advance barcoding of marine organisms. The presentations from the meeting are now posted, including Jesse’s. In general, we are excited and delighted by the recent series of events indicating DNA barcoding’s progress.

PHE’s geneticist and artist, Mark Stoeckle, has prepared a beautiful stamp for the All Birds Barcoding Initiative, available for viewing at Zazzle.