The Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences at RPTU (Campus Landau) is offering a position as a doctoral student in the DFG project “Pesticides, Plants and Arthropods – Using a Land-use and Climate Gradient Approach to Investigate the Possible Influence of Agrochemicals.”
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The Department of Biometry & Environmental Systems Analysis is seeking a
PostDoc/Associate Professor for 3 years, starting in September 2023.
Ghent University is accepting applications for a PhD Fellowship (4 years) on a project related to bioavailability of silver for freshwater organisms. The position starts ideally on 1st October, 2023.
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In this blogpost, Lukas Reinhard shares his internship experience at the Central American Institute of Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET) of Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica. Students of the Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology) Program complete an 8-week internship each year, the so-called “AMEO”. The AMEO is performed either at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute where students learn to apply the competences achieved during their study. Students also use this opportunity to travel and explore not only Germany, but also other countries.
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The Department of Chemical Safety at UBA is looking to hire a Head of Department (HOD) for Ecotoxicology Laboratory as soon as possible with an intial probation period of 6 months.
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The Department of Aquatic Ecology in Landscape Planning at University of Kassel is accepting applications for the positions of research assistants with the possibility of a doctorate.
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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.
Continue reading 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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