On the 12th of December 2024, the Winter Mingling took place, as every year, organized by the International Office & Welcome Center at RPTU Campus Landau, to welcome the new international students and celebrate the start of the winter semester. Janna, a student, tells us about it.
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The UFZ in Leipzig is looking for a PhD Researcher in Landscape-dependent pesticide and other chemical exposure risks on bumble bees.
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With this third and last part of our series ‘Highlights of 2024’ we finish saying goodbye to 2024 and we welcome a new year of studying and research. Today we welcome a new member to the EcotoxBlog, and recap studies on riparian soil and macroinvertebrates.
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The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) has 8 research positions for doctorate students/research assistants in the Collaborative Research Centre RESIST to study stream stressors.
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In this second part of the ‘Highlights of 2024’, we recap the projects and fieldwork conducted by the research teams at Uni Landau this year.
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In the first part of the ‘Highlights of 2024’, we give our readers a recap of the scientific publications we covered this year.
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The year 2024 is coming to a close and we want to take a moment to express our gratitude to each of you, for your interest, engagement and participation, that make the EcotoxBlog a vibrant community.
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In this blog post, Franziska Fiolka and colleagues discuss their study investigating flooding as a vector for organic pesticides, linking aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They assessed regularly and rarely flooded riparian plant contamination profiles in small streams around the Upper Rhine valley and found more and higher concentrations of organic pesticides in regularly flooded riparian soil and plants.
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The Institute of Fisheries Ecology of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forests and Fisheries, at the Bremerhaven site is seeking to recruit a Research Assistant PFAS specialist for collaboration in the third-party funded project „PFAS Pattern – Contamination of Fish with Fluorinated Compounds from the River to the Sea“.
Continue reading The UFZ is seeking a motivated candidate for a student assistant position in the Department of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.
The student will work on an EU Horizon 2020 project on microplastics and human health, called PlasticHeal. The task will be using FTIR imaging to quantify microplastics in human samples in occupationally exposed workers and control populations, and the data analysis and interpretation of the results. The expected working hours per week is around 7 hours per week. The position will be closed once successful candidates are recruited from now on.