Task Team on HAB Communication

Terms of Reference:

  • Act as the editorial board for HAN,
  • Be alert to HAB events around the world that could become news items for the HAN,
  • Contact relevant experts in their field and invite them to prepare feature articles,
  • Solicit FAO and IOC secretariats for programme news for each issue.
  • Regional editors are expected to actively follow up on HAB events e.g. appearing in the media in their respective regions and find the appropriate person to write an article for HAN or alternatively write it themselves on basis of collated information and references;
  • Coordinate reporting on ICHA Conferences (Highlights) and other biannual activities occurring during the International Conferences;
  • Identify new ways (communities, list-servers, social media) to announce and disseminate HAN at global, regional and national level and provide such information to the IOC and FAO secretariats;
  • Advise the IOC and FAO secretariats on their HAB website scientific contents,
  • In their capacity as HAN Editors-in-chief the Task Team Co-chairs will: 
  1. receive articles/announcements/meeting reports and acknowledge receipt as soon as are received,
  2. decide if submissions are suitable for HAN and acceptable as submitted or if there is a need for improved quality of images, reduced number of figures, and guide the author to HAN format requirements,
  3. prepare the table of content, organize the compiled material by topics and provide the lay-out service provider a numbered list of files,
  4. check the mounted draft, annotating redistribution of figures, including to fill the empty spaces,
  5. proofread final draft,
  6. prepare the table of abbreviated titles for the front page and the full table of contents to be sent for assigning a DOI.

Decides that the Task Team will comprise B. Reguera (Spain) co-Chair, E. Bresnan (UK), co-Chair, the Chair of the GlobalHAB Scientific Steering Committee, the chairs of each IPHAB Task Team, Chairs of the IOC Regional HAB groups (IOCARIBE/ANCA, FANSA, HANA, IOC/WESTPAC-HAB, ICES-IOC WGHABD, and ICES-IOC-IMO WGBOSV, a representative of the ISSHA Council, and the IOC and FAO secretariat. The Task Team may be expanded as required to fulfill the terms of reference;

Notes that the Task Team will work until otherwise decided by the Panel and that it will work by correspondence and/or meet on an opportunistic basis, and provide a progress report to the Chair of IPHAB prior to IPHAB-XVII.