The International Institute for Environmental Studies (IIES) offers a free e-course entitled “Environmental & Human Health Risk Assessment”, running every Wednesday from October 24, 2018, to January 16, 2019.
Tag Archives: ecotoxicology
New Project: Relationship between biodiversity and functions under stress
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about a recently granted DFG-project “The relevance of the BIOdiversity TO FUNction relationship in heterotrophic aquatic systems under stress” with the unusual acronym “BIO2FUN”.
Indirect effects of silver nanoparticles in aquatic invertebrates
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about a recently published open access paper entitled “Microbially-mediated indirect effects of silver nanoparticles on aquatic invertebrates”.
Aquatic herbicide diquat threatens native plants at ecologically relevant doses
In this post, Verena Sesin talks about their recent publication “Macrophytes are highly sensitive to the herbicide diquat dibromide in test systems of varying complexity”.
MSc thesis opportunity on dietary exposure of tawny owls towards metals
The Aarhus University Department of Bioscience in Denmark and Landau’s Institute for Environmental Sciences jointly offer a MSc thesis to study the long-term effect of global change on the exposure and dietary pathways of metals in the Norwegian tawny owl Strix aluco.
Scientist position in Applied Ecotoxicology in Switzerland
The Swiss Centre for Applied Ecotoxicology is seeking a scientist in applied aquatic ecotoxicology with special emphasis on cell and organism based bioassays and biomarkers.
Research position in Ecotoxicology at Lund University
The Centre for Environmental and Climate Research at Lund University in Sweden is offering a 1-year research position in ecotoxicology.
PhD & PostDoc positions in Environmental Toxicology at Eawag
The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) is hiring one PhD and one PostDoc researcher in the field of environmental toxicology.
PhD course on Adverse Outcome Pathways in Ecotoxicology at NTNU Trondheim in October
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is hosting the PhD course “My AOP – Practical applications, methods and challenges of Adverse Outcome Pathways in environmental toxicology” in Trondheim from October 15-19, 2018.
A visit at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology 2018
In this post, Verena Sesin reports on her visit at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB) in Toronto from July 21-26, 2018, themed “Connecting biodiversity from urban to wild areas by connecting practitioners, managers and researchers”.