The application for the Master in Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology) for the winter semester 22/23 at the University Landau is now open. Investigate the potential impact of chemical stressors on ecosystems and how to effectively manage environmental risks.
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The governmental monitoring under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) shall monitor the status of European water bodies. By carrying out a refined monitoring, a group of scientists from Leipzig and Landau now showed that pesticide risk in surface waters remains widely unnoticed in the WFD monitoring.
Continue readingIn this blogpost, Moritz Link reports how spray drift deposition of the herbicide glyphosate on a mixture of perennial non-target terrestrial plants was simulated and measured. Plant cover and number of open, pollen-producing inflorescences were recorded before and after the exposure event to determine sub-lethal herbicide effects.
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In the third installment of the ‘Year in Review’ series, we present our readers a glimpse of the last lot of most visited posts in the year 2021.
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In the second installment of the ‘Year in Review’ series, we give our readers a glimpse of 3 most visited posts in the year 2021.
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BASF SE are looking for an experienced ecotoxicological effect modeller for their Global Ecotoxicology division.
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In June 2021, Elena Adams successfully defended her Ph.D. on pesticide effects on German amphibians and consequences for their risk assessment in the European Union.
Continue readingWSC Scientific in Heidelberg is hiring a modeller to support the ecological and ecotoxicological modelling team, specialized in ecological risk assessment of toxicants and plant protection products.
Continue readingThe German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is hiring a researcher to assess environmental risks of pharmaceuticals used in human health care and veterinary care, with focus on ecotoxicology and risk mitigation.
Continue readingRifcon in Hirschberg, Germany, is hiring within their effect modelling and statistics team to apply and develop ecological and ecotoxicological models for environmental risk assessments.
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