Hello email list subscribers, You are the first few of many I hope. I want to welcome recent subscribers to the list to partly just let you know things are up and running - expect another along these lines in a week time to welcome the next 1000 people or so. Over the next few weeks we are hoping to set up some email discussion over what we want out of the BES Computational Ecology SIG. The organising group also have a few proposals prepared to kick things off with. Feel free to make any suggestions. I will email more details once I think the rate of new captures has died down sufficiently (I'll fit a Bayesian capture model and work out when it is 95% probable that no one else will join within a week). Expect those details in a week then! Best wishes, Matthew Smith -------------------------------- Matthew Smith Scientist in the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group , Computational Science Laboratory Microsoft Research Roger Needham Building 7 J J Thompson Avenue Cambridge, CB3 0FB, UK +44 (0)1223 479 784, +44 (0)7980 659 917 http://research.microsoft.com/~mattsmi