In this post, Ralf Schäfer and Oliver Frör report on their recent paper “Saving freshwater from salts: Ion-specific standards are needed to protect biodiversity”.
Science paper from Landau: How much salt is too much salt?
Submit your manuscripts for a special issue in Frontiers in Environmental Sciences!
Landau’s Carsten Brühl and Johann Zaller of BOKU Vienna are editing a special issue in Frontiers in Environmental Sciences on Non-Target Effects of Pesticides on Organisms Inhabiting Agroecosystems. Continue reading
New scholarships available!
The University of Koblenz-Landau just announced 20 new scholarships for beginners of our international master’s programs. Continue reading
Nanoparticles in freshwater ecosystems
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about their recently published paper “Effects of nanoparticles in fresh waters – risks, mechanisms and interactions”.
A collaborative research mapped human health risks from exposure to trace metal contamination of freshwater resources in Pakistan
In this post, Avit Kumar Bhowmik talks about their recent paper “Mapping human health risks from exposure to trace metal contamination of drinking water sources in Pakistan”.
Transatlantic Summer Academy on Sustainability 2016
Transatlantic Summer Academy 2016 in Bremen, organized by InterCulture gGmbH and Jacobs University Bremen – Experience new approaches in resolving ecological issues, work and live in a German‒US-American group of young people and explore sustainability from an intercultural perspective
The secret pollinators: an overview of moth pollination
In this post Carsten Brühl shares some information on moths, pollination and their potential role in current pollinator risk assessment approaches.
Fundraising for student trips to SETAC
In this post, Kym reports about their bake sale as a fundraiser for their trips to the SETAC Europe AM.
First clips of video curriculum available on YouTube
We were working on this for quite some time and now it finally aired: the first two clips of the video curriculum for the Master program in Ecotoxicology are available on YouTube. Continue reading
BECT update
In this post, Erin Bennett, the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, gives an update on the journal’s anniversary. Continue reading