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Andrea Gokus
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McDonnell PostDoc Fellow at WashU in Saint Louis, working on active galactic nuclei. Enthusiastic about music 🎶 , space 🚀, dogs🐕 and saving planet Earth 🌎.
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Not a big surprise, but the higher the amount of local (< 100 km from venue) participation, the smaller the average emissions. However, even meetings with few local attendees can have travel emissions below the average.

Scatter plot of the percentage of local participants versus the average emissions per participant. The average greenhouse gas emissions per meeting participant decreases with increasing fraction of local attendees.
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Most astronomy meetings are ≤ 100 attendees in size, but depending on the meeting venue, average emissions can be very high if most people have to fly medium to long distance. For large meetings, average emissions scatter around the average value of 1t CO2e per person.

Scatter plot of the meeting size versus the average emissions per participant. Most meetings have a size of 30 to less than 200 participants. No clear correlation is visible.
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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 🌎.
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