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.
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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.
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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 readingWageningen University & Research is hosting a 2-week online course on aquatic effect assessment of plant protection products starting 21 September 2020.
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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).
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This blog series showcases student research and experiences in the field of ecotoxicology around the world. Today, meet Linda R. Lara-Jacobo from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Canada, specializing in endocrine disruptors and ecotoxicogenomics.
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The free Twitter Conference #SETACkissUK, organised by the SETAC UK Student Council, is an opportunity to showcase your research in a global science communication event.
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The EcotoxBlog welcomes contributions from guest authors. This is your chance to share your stories with our community – our more than 2600 followers on Twitter and Facebook, and our blog visitors from around the globe.
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In this post, Kai Riess and Verena Rösch highlight a long-term pot experiment to evaluate the effects of anthropogenic stressors on native plants, soil organisms, and rhizosphere properties.
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In this post, Carsten Brühl introduces a recently published discussion paper on management practices for conservation in agricultural landscapes and their potential pesticide exposure.
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