EAS Advisory Committee on Sustainability

Mission statement

Established in autumn 2020, in accordance with the EAS commitment to a sustainable development of European astronomy, the EAS Sustainability Advisory Committee aims to investigate, communicate, and make recommendations to Council on sustainability matters related to astronomy and astrophysics. Relevant issues include, among others, the organisation of international meetings, the energy consumption of observatories and supercomputer facilities, and sustainability and climate issues as part of astronomy communication.

Members

• Fionagh Thomson (Durham University, UK)
• Marta González (Universidad Internacional Valenciana, Spain)
• Pat Roche (University of Oxford, UK)
• Susanne Pfalzner (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
• Floris van der Tak (SRON, Netherlands)
• Zuzanna Kocjan (University of Maryland, USA)
• Ric Davies (Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Germany)
• Anders Jerkstrand (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• Quentin Noraz (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Juan Carlos Suárez (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

We invite you to join us on our collective mission to reduce the carbon footprint of the average European astronomer and to pave the way for a resilient and sustainable future of European astronomical research. If you would like to contribute to these efforts or get in touch with the Sustainability Advisory Committee to find out more, please contact sustainability-eas @ unige.ch.