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• Proceedings of the conference in March, Kathmandu (All papers and posters, along with a comprehensive overview of the project results & related activities; articles to be no more than 5 pages long and submitted at the time of the conference) • KU to prepare guidelines for abstracts and papers • Editorial Board: to be decided • Of the proceeding papers, 10-15 will be selected and published in Limnologica journal. A list of possible paper titles/topics were made at the last Steering Committee meeting and after the meeting via email from partners to D. Hering. Not all partners have sent suggestions, additionally Pakistan whishes to withdraw their suggestions so far and make new suggestions. It is decided that the topic on publications will be discussed in the following session more detailed (see presentation session7_Title_of_the_papers.pdf. Session 8: Future plans and activities (jointly by O. Moog and S. Sharma) seen presentation session8_Future_Plans_and_Activities_S_Sharma_Moog.pdf and presentation session7_Title_of_the_papers.pdf The suggestions paper are once more discussed: Example of articles from a previous project - STAR (for basing our own): • Multi-author articles (22 authors) – general overview and methodology papers • Other country-specific or narrow focus scientific papers – 2 to 5 or so authors List of papers for the ASSESS-HKH project: 1. The ASSESS-HKH project: context, objectives and approach (authors: all lead scientists – O Moog, D Hering, I Stubauer, MF Bari, ABM Badruzzaman, G K Chhopel, P Dema, A Kumar, MP Sharma, S Sharma, R. Bajracharya, M Shrestha, B Pradhan, MA Kahlown, MA Tahir, H Rasheed, R Shilpakar, A Hoffmann, T Korte, C Feld, K Brabec) 2. Development assessment methodologies to evaluate ecological status of rivers in the HKH – overview and outlook (authors: O Moog, D Hering, I Stubauer, MF Bari, ABM Badruzzaman, G K Chhopel, P Dema, A Kumar, MP Sharma, S Sharma, R. Bajracharya, M Shrestha, B Pradhan, MA Kahlown, MA Tahir, H Rasheed, R Shilpakar, A Hoffmann, T Korte, C Feld, K Brabec) Agreement on the above 2 papers is reached 3. Water quality policies, pressures and impacts in the HKH (authors: M Shrestha, B Pradhan, A Hoffmann, MF Bari, MA Kahlown, MP Sharma, GK Chhopel) 4. Policy recommendations for sustainable water management in the HKH (authors: M Shrestha, B Pradhan, A Hoffmann, MF Bari, MA Kahlown, MP Sharma, GK Chhopel) 5. Structure of the macro-invertebrate communities in the HKH region: functional structure, environmental preferences and impact sensitivities (authors: K Brabec, T Korte, W Graf, . . .) 6. Screening methodology for the streams in the HKH region (every author writing papers on this topic can cite the methodology in there and does not need to describe everything in his paper) (O. Moog, A. Hartmann, S. Sharma,….) 7. Development and application of HKH-BIOS in the HKH region (authors: T Ofenboeck, S Sharma, GK Chhopel, S Alam, India Pakistan . . .) 8. Development of a Multi-metric index for application in the HKH (authors: T Korte, ABM Baki, D. Hering, T. Ofenboeck…) 9. Habitat and current preferences of the macro-invertebrates in the HKH (authors: T Korte, D. Hering. . .) 10. Species inventory of the macro-invertebrate fauna in the HKH region (authors: O Moog, S Sharma, A Schmidt-Kloiber, K Brabec, . . . aims to be defined and others to be decided) 11. Country specific papers Bangladesh 18
12. Country specific papers Bhutan 13. Country specific papers India 14. Country specific papers Nepal 15. Country specific papers Pakistan Suggestion from ABM Badruzzaman to give all field workers the opportunity to appear on papers: therefore another multi author paper is suggested: 16. The HKH data set - sampling design, content and taxonomic resolution (author: field workers) - partners are asked to provide a list with authors on this paper. The one who writes the paper should be the lead author For some papers it would be better to first define contents of the article and then think about the authors Overview on suggested papers so far by O. Moog: - the content of the scientific journal could follow the structure of other EU funded projects. - proposed scheme : start with 2-3 general papers with multi authors (see list above and agreed papers) - lot of advantages: visible that such project needs a team and 2ndly everybody who contributed will appear - next step: point out topics that are interesting for the scientific community - start writing now, esp. first multi author papers - Conference proceeding: should offer possibility to publish all topics of the project, but editorial board needed Decision needed: Editorial board of Conference Journal and Editorial board of Scientific Journal Duties for members of Boards (2 types): good knowledge on this field and others for language part; - they must have time to contribute - they are expert - they have good skills of review Agreement at the meeting in Lahore: large editorial board for the Conference Proceedings; Agreement 5 th meeting on editorial board: O. Moog, S. Sharma, D. Hering, M. Shrestha, R.M. Bajracharya, A. Hoffmann, T. Korte, M.F. Bari, G.K. Chhopel, Pakistan, India ACTION BUET; PCRWR; AHEC: provide information on the one person from each partner who will be in the editorial board for the conference proceedings Editorial Board for Scientific Journal: should have few editors, with responsibility to look for good reviewers: O. Moog, D. Hering, S. Sharma Agreement: think of members for editors for Sci. Journal, volunteers to be announced by 30 th Sept 2007 to ilse.stubauer@boku.ac.at at the latest Agreement and ACTION all partners: comments to the proposed papers / authors in the list above are welcome until 30 th September 2007 All partners are asked to think about possible papers. 19
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