Tinted detail of a photo: Forest of giant sequoias with massive, deeply furrowed orange-red trunks, among them thinner moss-covered grey trunks and young green conifers.
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Biogeosciences
A smiling person in a black top stands before a large blue and white logo. Three institutional logos are overlaid at the top: IRD, Sorbonne Université, and IEES Paris.

Marie Arnaud

Marie is a researcher at the Institut de recherche pour le développement in Marseille. She specialises on assessing blue carbon ecosystem dynamics under global change.

Fieldwork and Family: Parenting in the Biogeosciences

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Four people stand side by side in colourful rain boots, their footwear heavily coated in dark brown mud. They are standing on a thick layer of wet, dark brown soil.

It took almost two years to write this blog post – not because the challenges described below are rare, but because the scarcest resource for parents in academia is uninterrupted time. Academic careers are built on time: time to think, to meet collaborators, to develop the next research proposal, and to finally get that paper …[Read More]