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Cryospheric Sciences

Florina Roana Schalamon, Maria Dance and Marjolein Gevers

This blog is written by Florina Roana Schalamon, Maria Dance and Marjolein Gevers. Florina is a PhD student at University of Graz, investigating climate drivers of glacier changes in Greenland, Maria works as a research associate at the Scott Polar Institute and Marjolein is working on sediment transport from the Greenland Ice Sheet as a PhD student at the university of Lausanne. The other members of the project team are Elaine Runge, Daniela Marianne Regina Walch, Eleanor Maedhbh Honan and Rebecca Julianne Duncan. We are a team of women in polar science working on a project to document the experience of women in polar fieldwork and develop strategies to make fieldwork more inclusive. We come from a range of disciplines: biology, glaciology, and meteorology, and an assortment of countries: the Netherlands, Australia, Ireland, the UK, and Germany. We met as students at the University Centre in Svalbard, where we had our first polar fieldwork experiences, and through our membership in the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).

Women of Cryo VII: Making Fieldwork More Inclusive

July 12, 2024
a drawing of women doing different scientific activities, with the words 'women of cryo' written

Women make up 50.8% of the world’s population, yet fewer than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Of this percentage, women of colour comprise around 5%, with less than 1% represented in geoscience faculty positions. Women are published less, paid less, and do not progress as far in their careers as men. Even within our EGU community, women account for only one third of all members, and make ...[Read More]