In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about a session to be held at the SETAC Europe 30th Annual Meeting, which is going to be virtual – as SETAC SciCon.
Continue readingSETAC SciCon is almost here!
The SETAC SciCon virtual space is getting ready to welcome you, starting with the opening ceremony on Sunday May 3rd! In this blog, Kelly Derom from SETAC Europe is giving us a sneak peek of what’s ahead from May 3-7.
Continue readingBti on TV: Canadian documentary showcases current research on the insecticide used for mosquito control
In this blog, Carsten Brühl highlights the recent Canadian TV production on the biocide Bti used for mosquito control, filmed partly in Landau.
Continue readingModeling Environmental Threshold Levels
In this post, Lara Petschick talks about the recent publication “Modeling Regulatory Threshold Levels for Pesticides in Surface Waters from Effect Databases”, which explains how existing ecotoxicological effect databases can be used to generate high-quality effect thresholds for large-scale environmental risk assessments.
Continue readingFree online course: Using R to manage, analyse and visualise your data
How to get started in the statistics program R? In our free online course, you will learn to manage, analyse, and visualise your environmental data. The aim of this workshop developed by Landau researcher Jakob Wolfram is to teach environmental scientists the basics in R, so that they can further their career or studies.
Continue readingWhat are the environmental and socioeconomic effects of using Bti for mosquito control?
In this blog, Carsten Brühl and his co-authors are introducing a review paper on the environmental and socioeconomic effects of mosquito control in Europe using the biocide Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti) that is an outcome of a workshop held in Landau.
Continue readingTropical Ecotoxicology and Exchange with Costa Rica
In this post, Lara Petschick, Sebastian Stehle and Carsten Brühl share their experiences when visiting Costa Rica to establish a collaboration on Tropical Ecotoxicology with colleagues from the University Nacional in Heredia.
Continue readingSpotlight on Students: Our new blog series will showcase students in Ecotoxicology
We are launching a new series to highlight the variety of student research and experiences in the field of ecotoxicology around the world. Students will have the chance to share their stories in an interview-style blog with our community.
Continue readingGraphing Ecotoxicology
In this article, Jakob Wolfram talks about their recent publication “Graphing Ecotoxicology: The MAGIC graph for Linking Environmental Data on Chemicals”. This work detailed how a novel database structure was used to manage, aggregate, and harmonize different environmental databases in order to address large-scale environmental issues.
Continue readingCongrats! Stefanie Allgeier has completed her Ph.D. on environmental effects of mosquito control with Bti
In December 2019, Stefanie Allgeier successfully defended her Ph.D. on environmental effects of mosquito control with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti).
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