Biogeosciences

Pedro Brito

Pedro is a marine biologist with a scientific interest in emerging contaminants in marine environments. He is a researcher at the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) and at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR).

Fieldwork and Family: Parenting in the Biogeosciences

Sinikka Lennartz, Teresa Gimeno, Marie Arnaud, Christoph Keuschnig, Robyn Pickering, Lisa Wingate, Pedro Brito and Franziska Lechleitner November 3, 2026

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]