KEY POINTS FOR AUTHORS
KEY POINTS FOR AUTHORS
The workshop is starting point for developing two parallel papers on each topic, a synthesis of existing scientific knowledge and a synthesis of existing experience regarding management options for implementing that concept on the ground.
Each morning of the workshop, authors of the "science" papers will provide a brief summary or outline of what they see as key points in the development of their synthesis papers
Each afternoon, authors of "management" papers, authors of the parallel science papers, and other workshop participants will be involved in discussion sessions regarding the development of the management option papers.
All authors are expected to attend the entire workshop and interact as much as possible with other authors.
Through science presentations, panel discussions, case studies and breakout sessions, the workshop is intended to create and facilitate and environment where authors on all 30 topics can explore, develop and expand a description of how they intend to begin the development of their papers.
The workshop is structured to provide a limited amount of presentation and a lot of dialogue. Information from initial science paper outlines and the results of breakout sessions will be stored and available on a computer network at the workshop. Hard copies of information developed each day will be handed out the following morning. The information architecture to facilitate this is described later in this paper.
By the time you leave the workshop, you will have copies of the preliminary and modified paper outlines, ideas and comments from each of 90 breakout sessions, the operating plan for your individual author team, and a general outline of the vision for each science topic and management option paper.
Each individual will not be able to attend every session. There are several formal meeting scheduled for you author team. Each team will need to organize themselves to make sure that representatives from that team are assigned to breakouts on their topic and assigned to attend breakout sessions on as many other topics as possible. Each science and management team assigned to the same topic will need to coordinate the development of their parallel papers. Each author team will need to coordinate the development of team products required by the end of the workshop.
Expect to stay busy, challenged and engaged with some of the very best resource people in the country.
If you have a laptop bring it. There will be about 75 computers available at the workshop to support your work and access to the wide range of information developed during the workshop.
