Our Mission
Connecting early career scientists across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Regional Collaboration
Bridging the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and human dimensions.
Interdisciplinary Science
Career Development
Supporting leadership, networking and professional growth at every step.
Our Goals
contribute to community-based scientific development
empower LatAm ECRs
catalyse regional interdisciplinary scientific networking
LAECESS
is an open platform for Earth System Scientists seeking to connect and build knowledge through their interactions
Motivation
Understanding and explaining interactions within atmos-, bios-, cryos- and hydrosphere can help to face directly our huge challenges to get them resolved urgently.
Join our network and be part of this community of early career scientists who want to do research, promote leadership skills and networking for an integrated science!
About
We are a group of Young Scientists from Latin America aiming to promote networking, integrated science and soft skills. We are currently working towards creating a platform to implement our objectives.Please feel free to join, everybody is welcomed.
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What we do
Mentorship
Learn, grow and get support from experienced scientists.
Connecting minds through scientific exchanges.
Events & Webinars
Sharing jobs, funding, scholarships and conferences.
Opportunities
Science communication and discussions to inspire and inform.
Communication
Our first paper was published in 2022, addressing the challenges, needs and perspectives for ECRs in LatAm
Early career (EC) Earth system scientists in the Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) have been facing several issues, such as limited funding opportunities, substandard scientific facilities, lack of security of tenure, and unrepresented groups equality issues. On top of this, the worsening regional environmental and climatic crises call for the need for this new generation of scientists to help to tackle these crises by increasing public awareness and research. Realizing the need to converge and step up in making a collective action to be a part of the solution, the Latin America Early Career Earth System Scientist Network (LAECESS) was created in 2016.
LAECESS’s primary goals are to promote regional networking, foster integrated and interdisciplinary science,organize soft skills courses and workshops, and empower Latin American EC researchers. This article is an initial step towards lettingthe global science community grasp the current situation and hear the early career LAC science community’s perspectives. Thepaper also presents a series of future steps needed for better scientific and social development in the LAC region.
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