The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences is offering a PhD position in aquatic ecotoxicology to assess the effects of stressors on aquatic life and functioning in estuaries of two rivers.
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MSc thesis opportunity on method development and subsidy quality of stressed systems
We offer a master thesis at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Campus Landau) to develop a method determining multiple energy reserves in one insect sample. It will be used as tool to investigate changes in the subsidy quality of stressed systems.
Continue readingPhD Online Course on Adverse Outcome Pathways in Environmental Toxicology
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is offering an online course for PhD students on the practical applications, methods, and challenges of adverse outcome pathways in environmental toxicology, from December 7-11, 2020.
Continue readingMAGIC Research Project – Programming towards risk assessment
Environmental risk assessment only goes as far as data availability allows it. In this post, ecotoxicology student Larissa Herrmann shares her research project in the MAGIC working group at Uni Koblenz-Landau. She gained insight into programming in Python and R with the goal to make ecotoxicological data readily available for meta-analyses and risk assessments. Ultimately, a tool is developed that is applicable to a broad spectrum of pesticide registration reports.
Continue readingMSc thesis opportunity on Food Quality and Ecosystem Functioning at Uni Koblenz-Landau
We are offering a thesis to investigate which food quality descriptor is the best to explain changes in ecosystem functioning under stress. The thesis will be supervised jointly by our working groups Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology and Ecosystem Resilience.
Continue readingDocumentary on insect decline in German agricultural landscapes and the role of agriculture
The German television shot a documentary on the observation of declining insects in Germany, and the science behind it. The film features researchers involved in a recent study entitled “More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas”.
Continue readingOnline Course on Aquatic Effect Assessment of Plant Protection Products offered by WUR
Wageningen University & Research is hosting a 2-week online course on aquatic effect assessment of plant protection products starting 21 September 2020.
Continue readingPostDoc position in Integrative Global Change Ecology at TUM
The Terrestrial Ecology Group at Technische Universität München (TUM) Weihenstephan is hiring a PostDoc in integrative global change ecology.
Continue readingStandartox – Standardizing Toxicity Data
In this post, Andreas Scharmüller introduces Standartox, a tool that continuously incorporates the ever-growing number of ecotoxicity test results in an automated process workflow. It provides single aggregated data points for a specific chemical-organism test combination that represents the toxicity of a chemical. These values can be used for the derivation of toxic units (TU) or species sensitivity distributions (SSD).
Continue readingPhD opportunity in Environmental Pollution Effects on Molluscan Endocrinology at Brunel University London
Brunel University London invites applications for a 4-year funded PhD position investigating the effects of environmental pollution on Molluscan endocrinology.
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