You will have 12 minutes to present, including questions. There will be 3 minutes in between speakers for transition. Please prepare a PowerPoint with your content (to be submitted ahead of the meeting) and consider the following recommendations:

• Be considerate of other speakers and the audience by staying within your allotted time. The individual presentation time includes three minutes for discussion and changeover to the next speaker. Session chairs will hold you to the allotted time, which is essential to ensure adequate time for questions and discussion. (Note that there is additional discussion time with all speakers and poster presenters built into the “Reflect and Collect” time in the sessions, so there will be time for audience members to find you and ask additional questions following the oral presentations.)
• Please discuss the material as reported in your submitted and approved abstract.
• Prepare your presentation in advance so that your ideas are logically organized and your points are clear.
• Take time to rehearse your presentation. If your presentation runs longer than the allotted time, eliminate the least essential material and rehearse again.
• Give an opening statement to acquaint the audience with the nature and purpose of the study. Speak slowly and clearly. Word choice should be simple: use active words and short sentences.
• Use the microphone and speak toward the audience. When the microphone is clipped to your lapel, it is difficult for the audience to hear if you turn your head away, so please have copies of your presentation at the podium.

Maximum poster dimensions: 1.8 meters wide by 1.2 meters high (6′ W x 4′ H). Allow for a 1-inch border. You will need to make arrangements to print your poster before arriving at the conference. Each presenter will be provided a poster board 6’ W x 4’ H. Presenters must remove their posters at the end of the day of their scheduled presentation or the poster will be recycled. Please consider the following recommendations:

• The presentation must cover the material as cited in the abstract.
• Place the title of your paper and your paper number prominently at the top of the poster board to allow viewers to identify your paper.
• Highlight the authors’ names and contact information in case the viewer is interested in more information.
• Prepare diagrams or charts legibly in a size sufficient to be read at a distance of 2 meters.
• Paragraph and figure captions should be at least in a 24-point font (0.9 cm height) and headers at least in a 36-point font (1.2 cm height). Be creative by using different font sizes, styles, and colors.
• When working with graphs or charts, use different colors and textures/symbols for each line or bar. A serif font (e.g., Times) is often easier for reading main text, and a non-serif font (e.g., Arial or Helvetica) is more legible for headers and figure labels.
• Organize the presentation so it is clear, orderly, and self-explanatory.
• Use squares, rectangles, circles, etc., to group similar ideas. Avoid cluttering your poster with too much text. Label different elements as I, II, III; or 1, 2, 3; or A, B, C; making it easier for a viewer to follow your display.
Include the background of your research followed by results and conclusions. A successful poster presentation depends on how well you convey information to an interested audience.
• Please do not laminate your poster to ensure that it can be recycled.

Please prepare a 2-minute overview introducing yourself and answering the following question: How does your professional or scientific background and/or current role relate to conference objectives? If you would like, you can use one PowerPoint slide (to be submitted ahead of the meeting). Please be aware your talk will be part of a session of approximately 10 lightning talks, so we will enforce time limits strictly.

Multimedia abstracts could be submitted to any of our sessions, but we asked that the abstract would describe a multimedia "story" about water availability around the world and its impacts on human communities. The media may have been created for a past project or specifically created for this conference. The ultimate goal of having multimedia "stories" is to link conference themes to real world experiences of people in particular places. Stories should be no more than 10 minutes long and should be formatted as a video or audio recording (more details will be provided on this later). An example multimedia story is Agua Es Vida by the Western Landowners Alliance.

You will have 12 minutes to introduce your basin and its challenges to workshop participants, followed by additional time to answer participant questions. Given the way these presentations are tied to activities during the rest of the integrative workshop, we will organize a meeting of all workshop case study presenters in coming weeks to provide more details. In the meantime, please contact Lucas Bair ([email protected]) or Amanda Cravens ([email protected]) with questions.