Conveners
Input and Discussion: Best-practise examples
- Shankha Banerjee (Moderator) (CERN)
- Melissa Quinnan (Chair) (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
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Sumati Surya06/09/2022, 17:00Flash talk
I make a case for slow science that focuses not on the exploitation of land, labour and the environment, but on knowledge for its own sake. While modern science over the last century has been aided heavily by its promise of future exploitation (its "usefulness") it has also opened unimaginable windows of our minds, with a large fraction of interesting science being "useless". I argue that...
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Sophie Mallows (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))06/09/2022, 17:12Best-practise example
Agriculture, food production and distribution are major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions and can be hugely detrimental to our environment in terms of land use, biodiversity and eutrophication. The food system in so-called developed nations is currently unsustainable and needs dramatic changes in order to prevent global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Given the...
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Ken Bloom06/09/2022, 17:24
The ongoing “Snowmass” process in the United States included a focus on community engagement issues within the field. The climate impacts of particle physics was identified as one such issue. I will discuss how the Snowmass paper came to be, and briefly discuss some parts of its content.
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Prof. Daniel Errandonea (ICMUV; University of Valencia), Gabriela Barenboim (IFIC & University of Valencia)06/09/2022, 17:36Best-practise example
Courtesy of the pandemic, online conferences took over massively. The success of many of these events has made many members of our community think that organizing conferences online or in multiple regional hubs in parallel, could be our contribution to the carbon footprint of conference travel. Being this probably positive, it would also have a negative side. It will contribute to further...
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Spencer Gessner (SLAC)06/09/2022, 17:48Best-practise example
We present the results of the Snowmass Implementation Task Force (ITF) analysis of 15 future collider concepts. We consider both the environmental cost of construction (CO2 footprint per meter of tunnel) and the carbon footprint associated with collider power consumption. We discuss strategies to mitigate the power consumption of future high-energy colliders, such as energy recovery. We also...
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Patrick Janot (CERN)06/09/2022, 18:00Best-practise example
The energy consumption of an ${\rm e^+e^-}$ Higgs factory in operation will be everything but negligible. Future Higgs boson studies may therefore have a significant environmental impact. We propose ways to estimate the environmental footprint during the operation of all the Higgs factory projects that can credibly operate immediately after the end of LHC, namely the projects for three linear...
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Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)06/09/2022, 18:12Best-practise example
[ParticleBites.com][1] is a blog-based journal club written by graduate students targeted to undergraduates. Posts are accessible summaries of current research papers. While the public-facing blog is valuable for disseminating research, the group is also a science communication community within high-energy physics. Science communication can be powerful tools for supporting a sense of...
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Mandeep Gill (Stanford University), Rakhi Nandalal Mahbubani (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))06/09/2022, 18:24
This talk will present the current state of the document 'Striving towards Environmental Sustainability in HECAP'. This work in progress is a grassroots effort emerging from the first workshop on Sustainability in HEP, with the aim of reflecting on the role that our community can play in limiting environmental impacts. We envision it as a prelude to a more widespread engagement of the HECAP...
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