Progress
The following summary informs about actions carried out and goals achieved till now of the ASSESS-HKH project.
- April 2005: Official start of ASSESS-HKH
- June 2005: ASSESS-HKH "Kick-off" meeting in Brno, Czech Republic (» photos).
- Implementation of website
- Establishment of a » stream typolgy for the participating countries
- Definition of » reference conditions for the rivers of the participating countries
- Selection of reference sites
- Review on » existing policies in the HKH region
- Selection of the main » pressure on the rivers of the participating countries
- Harmonization of the » sampling of rivers
Guiding manual for selection of sampling sites
Guiding manual for pre-classification of sampling sites
Checklist for field and lab work
Guiding manual for Multi Habitat Sampling (MHS)
Guiding manual for » site protocol
Guiding manual for » sorting
Guiding manual for carrying out » Additional Microhabitat Sampling (AMS) - Selection of » sampling sites
- November-December 2005: 1st sampling period Carrying out of MHS and AMS
- December 2005: 2nd project meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- March 2006: 3rd project meeting in Essen, Germany
- March-Mai 2006: 2nd sampling period
Carrying out of MHS and AMS - November 2005–June 2006: carrying out of information events
- Development of a data entry program (HKHdip)
- August 2006: » identification workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal
- August-December 2006: identification of aquatic macroinvertebrates
- March 2006 –January 2007: » data input (HKHdip)
- December 2006: 4th project meeting in Lahore-Islamabad, Pakistan
- February – November 2007: Development of the » ecological river assessment methods
- March 2007: Workshop on » HKH Screening Method for River Water Quality Mapping, Kathmandu, Nepal
- March – Mai 2007: 3rd sampling period for River Quality Mapping
- June – July 2007: Preparing of River Quality Maps
- August 2007: 5th project meeting in Thimphu – Paro, Bhutan (» photos)
- December 2007 – March 2007: Validation of the , preparation of the » ECODAT management tool.
- March 2008: International Conference on Rivers in the Hindu Kush - Himalay region. Ecology and Environmental Assessment. Final conference of ASSESS-HKH in Kathmandu, Nepal (» photos)
- March – May 2008: Preparation of the ASSESS-HKH conference proceedings and scientific publications.