POV: You're an astronomer in the US who wishes for organizers to make meetings more sustainable.
Andrea Gokus
@agokus.bsky.social
McDonnell PostDoc Fellow at WashU in Saint Louis, working on active galactic nuclei. Enthusiastic about music 🎶 , space 🚀, dogs🐕 and saving planet Earth 🌎.
My host institution (WashU in Saint Louis) wrote a short article about our paper on the greenhouse gas emissions due to meeting-related travel for the entire field of #astronomy source.wustl.edu/2024/04/astr...
Astronomers share climate-friendly meeting solutions - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis
Carbon emissions associated with air travel to professional conferences make up a sizable fraction of the emissions produced by researchers in academia. Andrea Gokus, a McDonnell Center postdoctoral f...
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How much did astronomers actually travel in terms of distance in 2019 in total? More than 300 times to the moon and back! Or, to put it in astronomical units: more than 1.5 AU! doi.org/10.1093/pnas... A🧵summarizing our paper, written together with members of Astronomers for Planet Earth:
The US Congress is in the process of largely defunding the #Chandra X-ray mission and we need to #saveChandra! youtube.com/shorts/sE-RU...
#PaperDay! My analysis of the #blazar Markarian 421 during an extremely bright X-ray flare in 2019 is published - technically overdue since I already worked on the data during my PhD 😅 Here's my brief synopsis, full publication at doi.org/10.1093/mnra... by MNRAS