{"day":"10","quality_controlled":"1","date_updated":"2025-11-24T08:31:34Z","page":"243-256","article_type":"original","acknowledgement":"First and foremost, we are grateful to the conference organizers who have provided data, either in the form of tables or by pointing us to abstract books. We thank the reviewers and the handling editor (Gottfried Otting) for the careful reading and suggestions. This project emerged from an interactive course about energy and climate, held at IST Austria by Jeroen Dobbelaere, Georgios Katsaros and Paul Schanda. We are grateful to ISTA's Graduate School for enabling this interdisciplinary course and to all participating students. We thank the following persons for discussions and/or comments about the manuscript: Helene Van Melckebeke, Mei Hong, Jeff Hoch, Gottfried Otting and Matthias Ernst. For the preparation of the manuscript, AI tools have been used, namely for finding relevant literature (ChatGPT) and for correcting the text (Writefull, within Overleaf LaTeX).","oa_version":"Published Version","file":[{"success":1,"file_size":3081399,"file_name":"2025_MagneticResonance_Kapoor.pdf","creator":"dernst","file_id":"20672","relation":"main_file","content_type":"application/pdf","access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2025-11-24T08:25:19Z","checksum":"c63dd47b0e77f9451821436bb77d27c9","date_created":"2025-11-24T08:25:19Z"}],"citation":{"short":"L. Kapoor, N. Ruzickova, P. Zivadinovic, V. Leitner, M.A. Sisak, C.N. Mweka, J.A. Dobbelaere, G. Katsaros, P. Schanda, Magnetic Resonance 6 (2025) 243–256.","mla":"Kapoor, Lucky, et al. “Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Conference Travel: The Case of NMR Meetings.” <i>Magnetic Resonance</i>, vol. 6, no. 2, Copernicus Publications, 2025, pp. 243–56, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-6-243-2025\">10.5194/mr-6-243-2025</a>.","chicago":"Kapoor, Lucky, Natalia Ruzickova, Predrag Zivadinovic, Valentin Leitner, Maria A Sisak, Cecelia N Mweka, Jeroen A Dobbelaere, Georgios Katsaros, and Paul Schanda. “Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Conference Travel: The Case of NMR Meetings.” <i>Magnetic Resonance</i>. Copernicus Publications, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-6-243-2025\">https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-6-243-2025</a>.","apa":"Kapoor, L., Ruzickova, N., Zivadinovic, P., Leitner, V., Sisak, M. A., Mweka, C. N., … Schanda, P. (2025). Quantifying the carbon footprint of conference travel: The case of NMR meetings. <i>Magnetic Resonance</i>. Copernicus Publications. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-6-243-2025\">https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-6-243-2025</a>","ista":"Kapoor L, Ruzickova N, Zivadinovic P, Leitner V, Sisak MA, Mweka CN, Dobbelaere JA, Katsaros G, Schanda P. 2025. Quantifying the carbon footprint of conference travel: The case of NMR meetings. Magnetic Resonance. 6(2), 243–256.","ieee":"L. Kapoor <i>et al.</i>, “Quantifying the carbon footprint of conference travel: The case of NMR meetings,” <i>Magnetic Resonance</i>, vol. 6, no. 2. Copernicus Publications, pp. 243–256, 2025.","ama":"Kapoor L, Ruzickova N, Zivadinovic P, et al. Quantifying the carbon footprint of conference travel: The case of NMR meetings. <i>Magnetic Resonance</i>. 2025;6(2):243-256. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-6-243-2025\">10.5194/mr-6-243-2025</a>"},"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2699-0016"]},"month":"11","title":"Quantifying the carbon footprint of conference travel: The case of NMR meetings","has_accepted_license":"1","author":[{"id":"84b9700b-15b2-11ec-abd3-831089e67615","full_name":"Kapoor, Lucky","last_name":"Kapoor","orcid":"0000-0001-8319-2148","first_name":"Lucky"},{"last_name":"Ruzickova","full_name":"Ruzickova, Natalia","id":"D2761128-D73D-11E9-A1BF-BA0DE6697425","first_name":"Natalia"},{"id":"68AA0E5A-AFDA-11E9-9994-141DE6697425","last_name":"Zivadinovic","full_name":"Zivadinovic, Predrag","first_name":"Predrag"},{"full_name":"Leitner, Valentin","last_name":"Leitner","id":"4c665ce3-0016-11ec-bea0-e44de7a4fa3d","first_name":"Valentin"},{"id":"44A03D04-AEA4-11E9-B225-EA2DE6697425","last_name":"Sisak","full_name":"Sisak, Maria A","first_name":"Maria A"},{"first_name":"Cecelia N","last_name":"Mweka","full_name":"Mweka, Cecelia N","id":"2a69ab4b-896a-11ed-bdf8-cb8641cf2b21"},{"first_name":"Jeroen A","id":"c15a5412-de82-11ed-b809-8dc1aa996e40","full_name":"Dobbelaere, Jeroen A","last_name":"Dobbelaere"},{"id":"38DB5788-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Katsaros","full_name":"Katsaros, Georgios","orcid":"0000-0001-8342-202X","first_name":"Georgios"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-9350-7606","first_name":"Paul","id":"7B541462-FAF6-11E9-A490-E8DFE5697425","last_name":"Schanda","full_name":"Schanda, Paul"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Conference travel contributes to the climate footprint of academic research. Here, we provide a quantitative estimate of the carbon emissions associated with conference attendance by analyzing travel data from participants of 10 international conferences in the field of magnetic resonance, namely EUROMAR, ENC and ICMRBS. We find that attending a EUROMAR conference produces, on average, more than 1 t CO2 eq.. For the analyzed conferences outside Europe, the corresponding value is about 2–3 times higher, on average, with intercontinental trips amounting to up to 5 t. We compare these conference-related emissions to other activities associated with research and show that conference travel is a substantial portion of the total climate footprint of a researcher in magnetic resonance. We explore several strategies to reduce these emissions, including the impact of selecting conference venues more strategically and the possibility of decentralized conferences. Through a detailed comparison of train versus air travel – accounting for both direct and infrastructure-related emissions – we demonstrate that train travel offers considerable carbon savings. These data may provide a basis for strategic choices of future conferences in the field and for individuals deciding on their conference attendance."}],"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","DOAJ_listed":"1","doi":"10.5194/mr-6-243-2025","issue":"2","_id":"20664","related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","relation":"research_data","id":"20242"}]},"publication":"Magnetic Resonance","OA_type":"gold","article_processing_charge":"Yes","date_created":"2025-11-23T23:01:39Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"Copernicus Publications","year":"2025","tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png"},"file_date_updated":"2025-11-24T08:25:19Z","oa":1,"PlanS_conform":"1","publication_status":"published","volume":6,"corr_author":"1","department":[{"_id":"JoFi"},{"_id":"GaTk"},{"_id":"JoCs"},{"_id":"EvBe"},{"_id":"TaHa"},{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"GeKa"},{"_id":"PaSc"}],"date_published":"2025-11-10T00:00:00Z","OA_place":"publisher","ddc":["000"],"intvolume":"         6","status":"public","scopus_import":"1","type":"journal_article","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}