Dr. Ramesh Glückler

How do early career researchers in geoscience perceive interdisciplinary research? Which benefits do they identify, which obstacles? We aimed at answering these and more questions using a survey among members of the Geo.X research network in the Berlin-Brandenburg region of Germany. One key finding is that while interdisciplinary projects are valued for their ability to address complex problems, they also tend to require extra effort, such as for establishing efficient communication and harmonizing varying publication styles. Evaluation systems should account for such additional demands to incentivize interdisciplinary research. Read more in our newly published reseach article, openly available in Geoscience Communication:

Last week I attended a workshop organized by the European COST Action "PalaeOpen" and the Institute of Evolutionary Science in Montpellier, France, diving into the stewardship of paleoecological data in Neotoma. One great outcome on behalf of the charcoal proxy community: The first sedimentary charcoal dataset was uploaded to the Global Paleofire Database as a new constituent database to Neotoma, using the new recommended format and controlled vocabulary! Find this first dataset (of many more to come) here!