3 papers
astro-ph.HE2021
How to Assess the Carbon Footprint of a Large-Scale Physics Project
Clarisse Aujoux, Odile Blanchard, Kumiko Kotera
Large-scale experiments are building blocks of the physics community: they involve a large fraction of the scientific staff working in multiple countries, and absorb a significant…
cs.CY2021
An open-source tool to assess the carbon footprint of research
Jérôme Mariette, Odile Blanchard, Olivier Berné +1
Research institutions are bound to contribute to greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction efforts for several reasons. First, part of the scientific community's research deals with…
astro-ph.IM2021
Estimating the carbon footprint of the GRAND Project, a multi-decade astrophysics experiment
Clarisse Aujoux, Kumiko Kotera, Odile Blanchard
We present a pioneering estimate of the global yearly greenhouse gas emissions of a large-scale Astrophysics experiment over several decades: the Giant Array for Neutrino Detection…