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Sustainable early-career networks

Nature Geoscience volume 8, pages 745–746 (2015)Cite this article

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A truly global science community for the next generation of researchers will be essential if we are to tackle Earth system sustainability. Top-down support from funders should meet bottom-up initiatives — at a pace fast enough to meet that of early-career progress.

The importance of early-career networks has been declared to be high on the agenda of every significant funding agency and science coordination programme around the globe. Yet most existing initiatives for young scientists are limited in scope or reside within specific organisations, such as the American and European Geophysical Unions, the Future Earth programme or the World Climate Research Programme — and are thereby unwittingly splitting the field either geographically or by subject area (or both). However, the most pressing challenges for humanity span the entire Earth, and a multitude of scientific disciplines.

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  1. Florian Rauser and Sebastian Sonntag are at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53 20146 Hamburg, Germany,

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  2. Vera Schemann is at the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Pohligstraße 3, 50969 Köln, Germany,

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Rauser, F., Schemann, V. & Sonntag, S. Sustainable early-career networks. Nature Geosci 8, 745–746 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2541

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