{"628180":{"#nid":"628180","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u0027How can academic and professional organizations reduce air travel to conferences?\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cobb-dr-kim\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E a climate scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is among many researchers seeking alternatives to the current practice of jet-setting to conferences. In an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eos.org\/opinions\/agu-should-support-its-members-who-fly-less\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_window\u0022\u003Eopinion column\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published in 2018, she and two other scientists urged the American Geophysical Union\u0026nbsp;to support its members in flying less....She pointed out that many people with family commitments and physical limitations can\u0026rsquo;t easily attend in-person conferences: \u0026ldquo;Like new parents, people with any kind of serious family obligation, people who are sick and ill themselves,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-10-28 17:32:08","changed_gmt":"2019-10-28 17:32:08","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"smart infrastructure","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.yaleclimateconnections.org\/2019\/10\/how-can-academic-and-professional-organizations-reduce-flying-to-conferences\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614457":{"id":"614457","type":"image","title":"Kim Cobb ","body":null,"created":"1542727286","gmt_created":"2018-11-20 15:21:26","changed":"1542727286","gmt_changed":"2018-11-20 15:21:26","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233935","name":"Kim Cobb Lecture.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Kim%20Cobb%20Lecture.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Kim%20Cobb%20Lecture.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":273430,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Kim%20Cobb%20Lecture.jpg?itok=BW_8Rzsp"}}},"media_ids":["614457"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}