Guidelines for Preparation of Abstracts:
Abstracts of presentations will be published in the workshop proceedings. For the sake of consistency, please follow these guidelines:
Abstracts should be prepared using Microsoft Word, and should be titled in bold (11-point Times-Roman font) and include all contributing authors’ names and affiliations. All margins should be 1-inch, text single spaced (11-point Times-Roman font). Any references should be in 8-point in the following general format (separated by commas): author(s), year, title, publisher, volume, issue, and page(s). A short biographical sketch (approx. 50 words or less) of the presenting author should also be included.
Guidelines for short summaries of research needs/information gaps:
The proceedings of the workshop also will include a compendium of research needs and action plans for future coordinated research studies. We are soliciting a short summary from water managers and scientists that briefly describe information gaps, research priorities, or proposal concepts.
Scientists actively conducting research in the basin and estuary are encouraged to submit a one-page summary of scientific research needs by addressing the following topics:
- key questions or hypotheses,
- potential research activities and priority levels,
- basin-wide integration concepts,
- and recommendations for cooperative efforts and key players.
Please consider scientific relevance, topics consistent with an integrated watershed, missing data, cooperative constraints and leverage, or budgetary estimates.
A strawman proposal for coordinated multi-disciplinary research will be prepared from these summaries and distributed prior to the meeting for discussion at the workshop.
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