The European Training Network Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and the Catalan Institute for Water Research are offering 15 PhD positions in the project “inventWater: Inventive forecasting tools for adapting water quality management to a new climate”.
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Position as Ecological Modeller / Computational Biologist at Rifcon
Rifcon in Hirschberg, Germany, is hiring within their effect modelling and statistics team to apply and develop ecological and ecotoxicological models for environmental risk assessments.
Continue readingPlants and invertebrates face increasing applied pesticide toxicity
Increased efficacy of pesticides comes along with decreased applied amounts in agriculture – but does this translate to lower risks to non-target species? The answer is NO, if you ask scientists at the University of Koblenz-Landau who recently published a study in Science assessing changes in the use of 381 pesticides and toxicity to eight non-target species groups over the course of 25 years. In our blog, the authors explain the shifts in applied pesticide toxicity they found, and which species are increasingly at risk.
Continue readingPostDoc position in Machine Learning for Ecotoxicology at Eawag
The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) is hiring a PostDoc to predict acute toxicity through machine learning in ecotoxicology.
Continue readingImpact of fungicides on amphibian development & metamorphosis
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh and Carsten Brühl talk about a recent publication assessing the impact of fungicide-induced changes in food quality on the development and metamorphoses of the European common frog (Rana temopraria). This work is published open access in Ecology and Evolution. Relevant data is made available to the research community through dryad.
Continue readingPhD position in Functional Ecology at University of Minho, Portugal
The Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology at the University of Minho is hiring a PhD researcher in functional ecology within the project STREAMECO: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning under climate change: from the gene to the stream.
Continue readingWater Quality in European Surface Waters – A Spatial Complex (Part 3)
Jakob Wolfram talks about how water quality in Europe is affected by spatial factors and how they contribute to quality impairments for different organism groups. His research on “Water Quality and Ecological Risks in European Surface Waters – Monitoring Improves While Water Quality Decreases” is published in Environment International.
Continue readingWater Quality in European Surface Waters – A Risky Situation (Part 2)
Jakob Wolfram talks about how water quality in Europe changed over time for different species groups and identifies the actors responsible for the deteriorated water quality. His research on “Water Quality and Ecological Risks in European Surface Waters – Monitoring Improves While Water Quality Decreases” is published in Environment International.
Continue readingWater Quality in European Surface Waters – Finding stories in big data (Part 1)
Jakob Wolfram talks about analyzing a large monitoring dataset to understand how water quality in Europe changed over time, how these trends affect different species groups, and which factors contribute to deteriorated water quality. His research on “Water Quality and Ecological Risks in European Surface Waters – Monitoring Improves While Water Quality Decreases” is published in Environment International.
Continue reading2 BSc / MSc theses on Litter Decomposition & Carbon Cycling in Novel Environments at Uni Landau
Two Bachelor or Master theses are available at the University of Koblenz-Landau to assess either litter decomposition or carbon cycling in aquatic environments exposed to multiple stressors.
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