The Department of Aquatic Ecology at Eawag is accepting applications for the position of a research scientist in climate change and freshwater biodiversity. The ideal starting period is in late spring 2023 with a duration of 4 years.
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The Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt / UBA) is accepting applications for the position of a research associate in the field of ERA. The position has to be filled before 1st April, 2023.
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Das Eidgenössische Departement für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung in der Schweiz nimmt Bewerbungen für eine Stelle als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der ökotoxikologischen Bewertung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln entgegen.
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In this blog post, Sebastian Stehle presents a meta-analysis on the exposure and risks of the most widely used insecticides in the world, neonicotinoids, for global agricultural surface waters. Although acute risks for aquatic organisms from neonicotinoid exposure appear to be low, risk assessment results also show chronic risks to be of critical concern. Importantly, official regulatory threshold levels (RTLs) determined for pesticide authorization differed widely between countries, indicating large uncertainties and regulatory challenges in defining robust and protective threshold levels for neonicotinoids.
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INRAE laboratory in Lyon (FR) is inviting applications for a post-doc in analyzing the influence of toxic chemical contamination on stream invertebrate communities. It is an 18-month position, starting in Spring 2023.
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The School of Biosciences at the University of Sheffield is inviting applications for the position of a research associate in the field of freshwater ecotoxicology.
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The Swiss Centre for Applied Ecotoxicology (Ecotox Centre), located at Eawag in Dübendorf and EPF Lausanne is hiring a scientist in the field of mixture risk assessment. Position starts in early spring 2023.
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It has recently been discovered that plastic debris can form crusts on intertidal rocks. This phenomenon has been termed- plasticrust, but the formation process and potential plastic sources are unknown. In this study, we show for the first time that discarded maritime ropes are plasticrust sources and that summer rock surface temperature can contribute to plasticrust formation.
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In this blogpost, Jakob Wolfram talks about his recent study “Pesticide occurrence in protected surface waters in nature conservation areas of Germany”. In the study, he analyzed millions of records detailing the occurrence of pesticides in surface waters. The study showed that pesticides frequently occur in strictly protected nature conservation areas and could jeopardize their ecological integrity.
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The Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna is accepting applications for a PhD position in ecological modelling of biodiversity in riverine networks. The position begins in April 2023.
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