The Latin America Early Career Earth System Scientist Network (LAECESS) : addressing present and future challenges of the upcoming generations of scientists in the region
Yáñez Serrano, Ana María (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Aguilos, Maricar (North Carolina State University. Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources)
Barbosa, Cybelli (National Institute for Amazonian Research)
Bolaño-Ortiz, Tomás Rafael (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. Centro de Tecnologías Ambientales)
Carbone, Samara (Federal University of Uberlandia. Agrarian Sciences Institute)
Díaz-López, Stephanie (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas. Centro de Ciencias Atmosféricas y Biogeoquímica)
Diez, Sebastián (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Argentina))
Dominutti, Pamela (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. University Grenoble Alpes)
Engelhardt, Vanessa (Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research)
Gomes Alves, Eliane (National Institute of Amazonian Research. Department of Climate and Environment)
Pedraza, Jenniffer (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Saturno, Jorge (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)
Tzompa-Sosa, Zitely A. (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (France))

Date:	2022
Abstract:	Early career (EC) Earth system scientists in the Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) have been facing several issues, such as limited funding opportunities, substandard scientific facilities, lack of security of tenure, and unrepresented groups equality issues. On top of this, the worsening regional environmental and climatic crises call for the need for this new generation of scientists to help to tackle these crises by increasing public awareness and research. Realizing the need to converge and step up in making a collective action to be a part of the solution, the Latin America Early Career Earth System Scientist Network (LAECESS) was created in 2016. LAECESS's primary goals are to promote regional networking, foster integrated and interdisciplinary science, organize soft skills courses and workshops, and empower Latin American EC researchers. This article is an initial step towards letting the global science community grasp the current situation and hear the early career LAC science community's perspectives. The paper also presents a series of future steps needed for better scientific and social development in the LAC region.
Grants:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2018-000794-S
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Education ; Environmental impact ; History
Published in:	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Vol. 5 (October 2022) , art. 79, ISSN 2397-3722

DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00300-3
PMID: 36281291

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