AMEO experience – Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium – Charlotte Linley (2023)

In this blogpost, Charlotte Linley (aka Lottie) shares her internship experience at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Belgium. Students of the Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology)  Program complete an 8-week internship each year, the so-called “AMEO”. The AMEO is performed either at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute  where students learn to apply the competences achieved during their study. Students also use this opportunity to travel and explore not only Germany, but also other countries.

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AMEO experience – Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH – Lisa Friedrichs (2023)

In this blogpost, Lisa Friedrichs shares her internship experience at the Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH. Students of the  Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology)  Program complete an 8-week internship each year, the so-called “AMEO”. The AMEO is performed either at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute  where students learn to apply the competences achieved during their study. Students also use this opportunity to travel and explore Germany. 

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Exploring Environmental Frontiers: Highlights from the 12th SETAC YES Meeting 2023 (Part 4)

The 12th YES Meeting, organized by SETAC Europe’s Student Advisory Council, brought together emerging environmental scientists at RPTU (Campus Landau), Germany, to delve into the theme “Science Through Crises.” The final installment of this multipart blog series centers on the workshops and career talks conducted throughout the week-long YES Meeting 2023.

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AMEO experience – Riparian Stream Mesocosm Facility, Landau – Hardik Babulal Dobariya (2023)

In this blogpost, Hardik Babulal Dobariya shares his internship experience at the RSM test Facility in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany. Students of the Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology)  Program complete an 8-week internship each year, the so-called “AMEO”. The AMEO is performed either at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute  where students learn to apply the competences achieved during their study. Students also use this opportunity to travel and explore Germany. 

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Exploring Environmental Frontiers: Highlight from the 12th SETAC YES Meeting 2023 (Part 3)

The 12th YES Meeting, organized by SETAC Europe’s Student Advisory Council, brought together emerging environmental scientists at RPTU (Campus Landau), Germany, to delve into the theme “Science Through Crises.” The third installment of this multipart blog series centers on the workshops and career talks conducted throughout the week-long YES Meeting 2023.

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AMEO experience: Basque Country University in Bilbao, Spain – Danisa Lione (2023)

In this blogpost, Danisa Lione shares their internship experience at the Basque Country University in Bilbao, Spain. Students of the Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology)  Program complete an 8-week internship each year, the so-called “AMEO”. The AMEO is performed either at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute where students learn to apply the competences achieved during their study. Students also use this opportunity to travel and explore not only Germany, but also other countries.

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Exploring Environmental Frontiers: Highlights from the 12th SETAC YES Meeting 2023 (Part 2)

The 12th YES Meeting, organized by SETAC Europe’s Student Advisory Council, brought together emerging environmental scientists at RPTU (Campus Landau), Germany, to delve into the theme “Science Through Crises.” The second installment of this multipart blog series centers on the pivotal informative sessions conducted throughout the week-long YES Meeting 2023.

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Exploring Environmental Frontiers: Highlights from the 12th SETAC YES Meeting 2023 (Part 1)

The 12th YES Meeting, organized by SETAC Europe’s Student Advisory Council, brought together emerging environmental scientists at RPTU (Campus Landau), Germany, to delve into the theme “Science Through Crises.” The first installment of this multipart blog series centers on the pivotal informative sessions conducted throughout the week-long YES Meeting 2023.

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Bio-QSARs: the inclusion of physiological trait information in machine learning QSARs allows predictions across species

In this blogpost, Jochen Zubrod talks about developing an innovative machine learning approach for ecotoxicity predictions. These cutting-edge models show impressive predictive power for acute pesticide toxicity in freshwater organisms, holding promise for applications in environmental risk assessment and pesticide research and development.

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Does global warming lead to taxonomical and functional reorganization of insect communities in European rivers?

In this blogpost, Dr. Alessandro Manfrin, postdoc of the DFG RTG SystemLink,  talks about his recent study published “Taxonomic and functional reorganization in Central European stream macroinvertebrate communities over 25 years”. Here they observed that because of increasing temperatures, species that favour cold waters are progressively replaced by those that favour warm temperatures leading to functional alterations of the community.

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