The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) is hiring an expert in ecotoxicology of crop protection products for pesticide risk assessment and scientific reporting.
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Autumn school “Dynamic Modelling of Toxic Effects” in Sept-Oct 2021 (online & in-person in Denmark)
Participants will learn how to analyse (eco)toxicity data, mechanistically and with explicit modelling of temporal aspects. The pre-course online lectures run from Sept 13 – Oct 13, 1:30-4:30 PM CET; the in-person training takes place on Oct 18-22 in Denmark (optional).
Continue readingColloquium on Governing Chemicals at OECD on March 3, 2021
ECo-Series and ECORISK2050 host a free online colloquium on “Toxicological Trade Barriers: Governing Chemicals at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development” with Colleen Lanier Christensen (Harvard University) on March 3, 2021, 3-4 PM CET.
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The University of Duisburg-Essen is offering a PhD position in the project “Delineating multiple stressor-response relationships at the individual level: A mechanistic modelling approach”.
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Eurofins MITOX in Southern France is hiring a Study Director and Facility Assistant who will be responsible for the performance of regulatory GLP field studies according to the relevant OECD guidelines.
Continue readingInsect decline? A critical discussion from a freshwater perspective – Talk on Feb 3, 2021, at 6 PM MET
Prof. Dr. Ralf B. Schäfer of Uni Koblenz-Landau will give a talk on the current research and debates surrounding insect decline, with focus on the key drivers, trends among aquatic versus terrestrial insects, the role of pollutants, and mitigation measures.
Continue readingPostDoc position in Ecology at Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum
The University of Duisburg-Essen welcomes applications for a PostDoc position in terrestrial or freshwater ecology located at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Gelnhausen, Germany.
Continue readingAmphibians are at risk from pesticides in agricultural landscapes
In this post, Christoph Leeb and Elena Adams summarize three new papers on the effects of pesticides on amphibians, which will inform ongoing developments of pesticide testing and environmental risk assessment strategies in the European Union.
Continue readingPostDoc position in Marine eDNA Biomonitoring at Uni Kaiserslautern
The University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Ecology, is looking for a biologist and computational data scientist to fill a 2-year PostDoc position in marine environmental DNA biomonitoring.
Continue readingSave the date: SystemLink virtual conference on aquatic-terrestrial linkages on January 28 & 29
The SystemLink graduate school at the University of Koblenz Landau, Institute of Environmental Sciences (iES), will host a free virtual research workshop on the topic of anthropogenic alterations of aquatic-terrestrial linkages.
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