Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Ramona Blattner shares her AMEO experience at the School of Life Sciences (HLS) at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) in Muttenz, Switzerland.
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Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Adetola Adebowale tells us about his AMEO experience in the Invertebrate and Residue Field Studies department at RIFCON GmbH in Hirschberg.
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A new study examining the effects of an antibiotic, a fungicide, and their mixture on the gut microbiome of Gammarus fossarum found that the antimicrobial exposure altered the relative abundance of bacterial classes within the gut microbiome, with effect directions depending on the type of antimicrobial used.
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A new study investigating temporal and spatial trends in pesticide pressure in France over 15 years (2008 to 2022) using the Total Applied Toxicity (TAT) highlights the importance of TAT for evaluating pesticide pressure and identifying areas for mitigation strategies, while also noting the impact of recent regulatory actions.
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Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Krishna Venugopalan Variyer tells us about her AMEO experience in the Aquatic Department at the BASF Agricultural Center in Limburgerhof.
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Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Bailey Tock tells us about her AMEO experience in the Experimental Aquatic Unit at the Bayer Monheim campus
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Every Summer Semester, Ecotox Master students do a 2-month internship or AMEO (Applied Module at an External Organization). Today, Vivien McGuire and Janna Schulte tell us about their AMEO experience at Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME), Schmallenberg.
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A new extensive review article assessing the state of global chemical pollution highlights the challenges for global chemical assessment, regulation and management systems.
The SETAC 13th Young Environmental Scientists (YES) meeting took place from the 11th to the 14th of August in York, United Kingdom. Katharina Wifling and I, Verónica Rodriguez, attended the conference to present our research. Katharina presented a poster based on her RPC, while I presented a poster on my master’s thesis.
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Every day, we inhale and exhale without a second thought. Why? Because we believe we breathe fresh air. The fresh air we hope to breathe consists of a mixture of simple gases, mainly oxygen and nitrogen. However, this air can be polluted with very different tiny particles emitted from natural sources and human (anthropogenic) activities in our day-to-day life, which might be harmful to our health. These tiny particles are known as nanoparticles. This blog post explains how nanoparticles are released in our environment, their sources, how they end up in the air we breathe, the nanoparticle cocktail in urban and rural areas, and their potentially harmful effects on humans and the environment.
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