We were troubled to find that Tommy Gold’s pages have disappeared from the Cornell University website but delighted to find they have been saved by the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive.

Almost exactly 10 years ago, Jesse and Bill Nierenberg organized the first workshop at Scripps Oceanographic Institution that led to the Census of Marine Life, which earned the cover of Science News magazine 17 February. A little more than five years ago, in February 2002, Jesse and Paul Hebert met at a Census of Marine Life workshop in White Point, Nova Scotia, and joined forces to initiate the Barcode of Life initiative, which earned the cover of Canadian Geographic this month. We happily celebrate the anniversaries of these wonderful projects and thank everyone participating.

For the past year Jesse has chaired a small group to help realize the vision of an on-line Encyclopedia of Life with a web page for every species proposed by Edward O. Wilson, Dan Janzen, and others. Ed made the EOL his wish at the TED conference in Monterey CA on 8 March.

Wood and Wood Products magazine published an interview view with Jesse about the forest transition in its February 2007 issue.

We post “Comprehensive DNA barcode coverage of North American birds” recently published in Molecular Ecology Notes. PHE’s Mark Stoeckle co-authored the paper along with the now almost-classic 2004 paper “Identification of Birds through DNA Barcodes.” As Mark likes to say, Barcoding takes flight.

Progress in Industrial Ecology published the Ausubel-Wernick-Barrett-Waggoner paper Industrial Ecology for Leverage to Let Loose Less Cadmium . We thank Peter Elias, who helped us start work on cadmium back in the 1990s. The paper exemplifies a kind of analysis we recommended in our 1997 report Industrial Ecology: Some Directions for Research. The growth of industrial ecology as evidenced by the development of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Progress in Industrial Ecology, and the International Society for Industrial Ecology is gratifying. And, for those worried about cadmium, remember to think zinc.