The Quantitative Landscape Ecology Group and the Graduate School SystemLink from the University of Koblenz-Landau would like to invite you to an online lecture by Dr. Pascal Bodmer on 9 November 2020.
Continue readingPHOTOPUR Online-Symposium: 2 Days of Ecotoxicology, Wastewater & Green Technologies
The PHOTOPUR project is inviting you to a free scientific symposium on the treatment and evaluation of pesticide-contaminated wastewater using green technologies, hosted online on Zoom on December 9 and 10, 2020.
Continue readingChemicals cross boundaries: New book highlights the water-land interface
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh and Ralf Schulz talk about a new book on contaminants and ecological interfaces, edited by Johanna M Kraus, David M Walters (both USGS) and Marc. A Mills (US EPA).
Continue readingNew online lecture on “Mechanisms underlying biodiversity patterns in river-like dendritic networks”
The Quantitative Landscape Ecology Group and the Graduate School SystemLink from the University of Koblenz-Landau would like to invite you to an online lecture by Dr. Isabelle Gounand (Institut d’Écologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris); Sorbonne Université) on 28 October 2020.
Continue readingFree webinar series on plastic pollution and microplastics
The EU project LimnoPlast is hosting a free webinar series called #microplastinar, “Moving from Sources to Solutions for Microplastics”, starting in November 2020.
Continue readingInsectExpo: What are the risks of agricultural pesticides to insects?
With observations of declining insects in agricultural landscapes, research is focusing on figuring out the role of potential stressors, such as structural homogeneity, fertilizer and pesticide inputs. In this blog, Carolina Honert explains how their project “InsectExpo” can fill these knowledge gaps.
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 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.
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