Author Archives: Danisa Lione

Reminder: Position as Postdoc Environmental Data Science (100%) at iES, Landau

The Institute of Environmental Sciences (iES) at Campus Landau is looking for a Postdoc in the working group ‘Ecotoxicology and Environment’, starting as soon as possible.

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Society of Limnology (SIL) Meeting in Berlin in August 2022

The Society of Limnology (SIL) meeting will be held in Berlin in August 2022 on the theme ‘Cross-boundary interactions: propagation of stressors from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems

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Research Scholar positions at IIASA 

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis is hiring two research scholars – one each for ecological modelling and spatial conservation prioritization.

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Updated article: Insects in nature reserves are contaminated with a cocktail of pesticides

Update 02.03.2022 – Here is a link to a new video of the study on insects contaminated with a mix of pesticides in nature reserves.

Video 1: A new video of the study on insects contaminated with a mix of pesticides in nature reserves. (Credits: C. Brühl)

In this blog post Carsten Brühl explains the background and findings of their paper on pesticide residues measured on insect samples from nature conservation areas in Germany published in Scientific reports.

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Why coffee makes you alert after a heavy lunch: Mixture neurotoxicity explained through the lens of zebrafish behaviour

In this blogpost, Fola Ogungbemi talks about the effects of mixtures of neuroactive substances. Risk assessment of chemicals is usually conducted for individual chemicals whereas mixtures of chemicals occur in the environment. Considering that neuroactive chemicals are a group of contaminants that dominate the environment, it is then imperative to understand the effects of mixtures of neuroactive substances.

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Position as Postdoc Environmental Data Science (100%) at iES, Landau

The Institute of Environmental Sciences (iES) at Campus Landau is looking for a Postdoc in the working group ‘Ecotoxicology and Environment’, starting as soon as possible.

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Diversity Workshop : Creating a culture of inclusion in academia

A diversity workshop is being organized by SystemLink at University of Koblenz – Landau to explore how you experience diversity in your project in a safe and fun environment.

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Position as Research Assistant in Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology at iES, Landau

The Institute of Environmental Sciences (iES) at Campus Landau is looking for a research assistant in the working group ‘Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology’, starting 1st April, 2022.

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Antibiotics as a silent driver of climate change?

In this blog post, Eric Bollinger provides a brief overview of their recently published paper regarding the effects of antibiotics on methane production in sediments. The study links topics from ecotoxicology, environmental physics, and molecular ecology in the context of climate change.

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Pesticides fly under the radar of official monitoring

The governmental monitoring under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) shall monitor the status of European water bodies. By carrying out a refined monitoring, a group of scientists from Leipzig and Landau now showed that pesticide risk in surface waters remains widely unnoticed in the WFD monitoring.

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