Going on a research stay entailed long days in the archives, poring over medieval accounts written in hard-to-decipher script until my eyes were dry and my fingertips dirty with centuries-old dust.
![A reconstruction drawing of a medieval fishing weir by Simon Dick. Commissioned by Dr. Aidan O'Sullivan, University College Dublin.](https://i0.wp.com/envhistnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Picture2.jpg?fit=605%2C449&ssl=1)
Going on a research stay entailed long days in the archives, poring over medieval accounts written in hard-to-decipher script until my eyes were dry and my fingertips dirty with centuries-old dust.
It just did not sit right anymore to go on all these research trips. That’s when I calculated the Carbon Footprint of my project until thus far.