In this post, Christoph Leeb and Elena Adams summarize three new papers on the effects of pesticides on amphibians, which will inform ongoing developments of pesticide testing and environmental risk assessment strategies in the European Union.
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In this post, Carsten Brühl and Elena Adams explain the background to their new published paper on amphibian sensitivity at different aquatic life stages and acute effects from aquatic fungicide exposure.
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The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is offering an online course for PhD students on the practical applications, methods, and challenges of adverse outcome pathways in environmental toxicology, from December 7-11, 2020.
Continue readingThe RECETOX Centre of Masaryk University in the Czech Republic offers two PhD positions in bioanalytical and mechanistic environmental toxicology within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network “Best chemical risk assessment professionals for maximum Ecosystem Services benefit (PRORISK)”.
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In this post, Lara Petschick talks about the recent publication “Modeling Regulatory Threshold Levels for Pesticides in Surface Waters from Effect Databases”, which explains how existing ecotoxicological effect databases can be used to generate high-quality effect thresholds for large-scale environmental risk assessments.
Continue readingThe RECETOX Centre of Masaryk University in the Czech Republic offers 2 PhD positions within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network “Best chemical risk assessment professionals for maximum Ecosystem Services benefit (PRORISK)”.
Continue readingUniversity of Sheffield in the UK is offering two PhD positions in ecology and ecotoxicology as part of the European Training Network PRORISK.
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In this post, Verena Sesin shares her visit at the International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species (ICAIS) in Montreal from October 27-31, 2019, a forum for new and emerging issues related to invasive species in aquatic environments.
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In this post, Philipp Uhl talks about their recently published paper “The Impact of Pesticides on Flower‐Visiting Insects: A Review with Regard to European Risk Assessment”.
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In this post, Jakob Wolfram talks about his most recent paper “Insecticide Risks in United States Surface Waters: Drivers and Spatiotemporal Modeling”. This publication analyzed the drivers of insecticide nonpoint source pollution and used a modelling approach to identify regions in the U.S. where surface waters may be at risk.
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