When science becomes a dirty word can Open Science be the catalyst for change?
Abstract
The current cohort of geoscience undergraduate and graduate students will embark on their careers in an environment that is more complex, challenging and contentious than ever before. The traditional pressure to publish or perish remains, but the publishing environment is more complex than ever. Open access journals, FAIR data, increasing linking and tracking of scientific outputs provide both opportunities and barriers to new researchers.
At the same time the expectation for scientists to provide research, data and advice to inform policy around a number of "societally contentious" issues adds another layer of complexity for our research community. This is particularly frustrating when the perceived value of the data and/or the scientific results has changed from being impartial and fact based to highly variable, depending on the political views of the stakeholder. Whilst this is clearly a global issue, here we present a discussion around these issues from an Australian perspective where we consider the complex scientific needs relating to planning sustainable future use of sedimentary basins. In particular, we consider the opportunities that FAIR data provision and open science provide to young geoscientists both from the point of view of their career progression, as well as their ability to deliver high quality, transparent research outputs in contentious policy areas.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.U13B..02R
- Keywords:
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- 0230 Impacts of climate change: human health;
- GEOHEALTH;
- 1904 Community standards;
- INFORMATICS;
- 4323 Human impact;
- NATURAL HAZARDS;
- 6349 General or miscellaneous;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES