Tag Archives: biodiversity

Excursion to Mals in South Tyrol: Pesticide monitoring along an altitudinal gradient

In May 2022, a couple of M.Sc. Ecotoxicology students along with Carsten Brühl went to South Tyrol (Italy) to investigate the distribution of pesticides in alpine environments. A part of the group were students from the module Methods in Ecotoxicology, that includes a block lecture and a laboratory test and this year also a field part to perform exposure measurements. The Landau group met with Johann Zaller from BOKU Vienna, author of Daily Poison.

In this blogpost, two of those students, Ken Mauser and Nina Engelhard, present the reason for going to South Tyrol, some brief details about the study and their experience.

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Position as Project Manager in Integrated River Basin Management and Ecology

Emscher Genossenschaft Lippe Verband (EGLV) is looking for a Project Manager in Integrated River Basin Management and Ecology. The position, as part of the EU-funded MERLIN project, is in the department of river and landscape in Essen (Germany).

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PostDoc position in Modelling Ecosystem Stability & Resilience at FU Berlin

The Theoretical Ecology group at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin is hiring a 3-year PostDoc for process-based simulation modelling of the stability and resilience of terrestrial ecosystems under disturbances and ongoing global change.

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