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. 2022;5(1):79.
doi: 10.1038/s41612-022-00300-3. Epub 2022 Oct 20.

The Latin America Early Career Earth System Scientist Network (LAECESS): addressing present and future challenges of the upcoming generations of scientists in the region

Ana María Yáñez-Serrano  1   2   3 , Maricar Aguilos  4 , Cybelli Barbosa  5 , Tomás Rafael Bolaño-Ortiz  6 , Samara Carbone  7 , Stephanie Díaz-López  8 , Sebastián Diez  9   10 , Pamela Dominutti  11 , Vanessa Engelhardt  8   12 , Eliane Gomes Alves  13   14 , Jenniffer Pedraza  15 , Jorge Saturno  16 , Zitely A Tzompa-Sosa  17
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The Latin America Early Career Earth System Scientist Network (LAECESS): addressing present and future challenges of the upcoming generations of scientists in the region

Ana María Yáñez-Serrano et al. NPJ Clim Atmos Sci. 2022.

Abstract

Early career (EC) Earth system scientists in the Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) have been facing several issues, such as limited funding opportunities, substandard scientific facilities, lack of security of tenure, and unrepresented groups equality issues. On top of this, the worsening regional environmental and climatic crises call for the need for this new generation of scientists to help to tackle these crises by increasing public awareness and research. Realizing the need to converge and step up in making a collective action to be a part of the solution, the Latin America Early Career Earth System Scientist Network (LAECESS) was created in 2016. LAECESS's primary goals are to promote regional networking, foster integrated and interdisciplinary science, organize soft skills courses and workshops, and empower Latin American EC researchers. This article is an initial step towards letting the global science community grasp the current situation and hear the early career LAC science community's perspectives. The paper also presents a series of future steps needed for better scientific and social development in the LAC region.

Keywords: Education; Environmental impact; History.

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Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Comparison, per country, of PhD graduations and publications over the last 3 decades.
Number of graduated Ph.D. in time normalized per 1 million inhabitants in a and number of publications in SCOPUS in time normalized per 1 million inhabitants in b. Data are accessible at Red RICYT.
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