Andrea Gokus
agokus.bsky.social
Andrea Gokus
@agokus.bsky.social
McDonnell PostDoc Fellow at WashU in Saint Louis, working on active galactic nuclei.
Enthusiastic about music 🎶 , space 🚀, dogs🐕 and saving planet Earth 🌎.
POV: You're an astronomer in the US who wishes for organizers to make meetings more sustainable.
June 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM
My host institution (WashU in Saint Louis) wrote a short article about our paper on the greenhouse gas emissions due to meeting-related travel for the entire field of #astronomy

source.wustl.edu/2024/04/astr...
Astronomers share climate-friendly meeting solutions - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis
Carbon emissions associated with air travel to professional conferences make up a sizable fraction of the emissions produced by researchers in academia. Andrea Gokus, a McDonnell Center postdoctoral f...
source.wustl.edu
April 30, 2024 at 10:58 PM
How much did astronomers actually travel in terms of distance in 2019 in total? More than 300 times to the moon and back! Or, to put it in astronomical units: more than 1.5 AU!
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
A🧵summarizing our paper, written together with members of Astronomers for Planet Earth:
April 30, 2024 at 2:13 PM
The US Congress is in the process of largely defunding the #Chandra X-ray mission and we need to #saveChandra!
youtube.com/shorts/sE-RU...
April 5, 2024 at 1:11 PM
#PaperDay! My analysis of the #blazar Markarian 421 during an extremely bright X-ray flare in 2019 is published - technically overdue since I already worked on the data during my PhD 😅

Here's my brief synopsis, full publication at doi.org/10.1093/mnra... by MNRAS
April 2, 2024 at 10:24 PM