The Unilever Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC) has released two latest job postings with a strong focus on environmental risk assessment.
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Avenues for future research to predict the effects of chemicals
Predicting effects of chemicals in ecosystems is complex due to many factors that influence the action of chemicals. Moreover, understanding chemical effects in ecosystems requires the integration of multiple levels of biological organisation such as cells, organs, organisms, whole populations, communities or ecosystems, which is rarely done. In this blogpost, Anke Schneeweiss and her research team provide a framework for how to integrate these levels by delineating connections between different ecotoxicological perspectives.
Continue readingPosition as Ecological Modeller / Computational Biologist at Rifcon
Rifcon in Hirschberg, Germany, is hiring within their effect modelling and statistics team to apply and develop ecological and ecotoxicological models for environmental risk assessments.
Continue readingDeveloping a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste – You can sign on!
For the first time, the United Nations Environment Programme is going to make chemical pollution, similarly to climate change and biodiversity, a priority topic in 2022–2025. The International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP) invites you to voice your support for establishing a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste.
Continue readingColloquium on Governing Chemicals at OECD on March 3, 2021
ECo-Series and ECORISK2050 host a free online colloquium on “Toxicological Trade Barriers: Governing Chemicals at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development” with Colleen Lanier Christensen (Harvard University) on March 3, 2021, 3-4 PM CET.
Continue readingPosition in Water Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
The Ministry for Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia is offering a position in water protection with focus on chemical contaminants.
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 reading3 Positions for Ecotoxicologists at Rifcon
Rifcon is hiring for three positions in ecological modelling, ecotoxicology, and risk assessment for wild birds and mammals, located in Hirschberg, Germany.
Continue readingPostDoc in Environmental Chemistry at NTNU
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is offering a PostDoc position in environmental analytical organic chemistry with focus on the management of hazardous substances.
Continue readingPosition as Ecotoxicologist at AGES in Austria
The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) is hiring an expert in ecotoxicology of crop protection products.
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