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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 13: Sustainability

T 13.4: Vortrag

Montag, 31. März 2025, 17:30–17:45, VG 2.103

Know Your Footprint: Evaluating the Environmental Footprint of Individual Researchers — Valerie Lang¹, Naman Kumar Bhalla¹, •Simran Gurdasani², and Pardis Niknejadi² — ¹Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany — ²Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany

Mitigating the environmental impact of particle physics is essential for addressing the broader challenges of sustainability, particularly given the resource-intensive nature of the field. The Know your footprint initiative, developed within the young High Energy Physicists Germany, provides a self-evaluation survey to quantify an individual’s professional footprint by considering four key areas: Experiment, representing the large infrastructure within HEP collaborations; Institute, accounting for emissions from research institutes and universities; Computing, covering resource consumption for data analysis and simulations; and Travel, related to business trips for conferences, workshops, and meetings. The methodology behind the survey is presented, along with a first look at the data collected during its first year of activity. The Know your footprint initiative aims to raise awareness, facilitate data-driven discussions, and encourage the adoption of more sustainable research practices within the community.

Keywords: Carbon Fooprint; Sustainability in Research; High Energy Physics (HEP); Environmental Impact; Climate Action