The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) is looking for a PhD student in environmental chemistry to identify and characterize cumulative hazard and risk of complex mixtures and multiple stressors.
Tag Archives: environmental risk assessment
2 PostDoc positions at University of Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg is currently offering two PostDoc positions in ecotoxicology and chemical risk assessment in its Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Population-level fungicide effects assessed in the Laboratory Stream Microcosm Facility
In this post, we talk about our recently published paper “Long-term effects of fungicides on leaf-associated microorganisms and shredder populations – an artificial stream study”.
EU risk assessments for pharmaceuticals overestimate dilution of effluents in receiving waters
In this post, Moritz Link reports about his recently published paper “Comparison of dilution factors for German wastewater treatment plant effluents in receiving streams to the fixed dilution factor from chemical risk assessment”.
Several positions (PhD, Postdoc, Technician) at UFZ Leipzig
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig offers several positions within the project CHEMO-RISK, dealing with chemometers as novel tools for risk assessment of pollutant mixtures.
Past, Presence and Future of Environmental Risk Assessment within the EU – where are we going?
Student blogger Lara and Prof. Ralf Schäfer report from the EFSA’s Conference “Environmental risk assessment of pesticides: 25 years of scientific advancements since the adoption of Directive 91/414/EEC”.
Internship at the European Food Safety Authority
As you might know from previous posts of this blog, students of the Ecotoxicology Master’s Program spent the last summer term in internships at external organisations such as industrial companies, universities, research facilities or authorities. This time, student blogger Lara reports on her experience with the AMEO module at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy.
42 days set-up, 42 days mesocosm study
Large-scale experiments give us a more realistic idea of pesticide toxicity than single-species tests. Mesocosm studies for example simulate natural ecosystems and can include several trophic levels, which help us to detect both direct and indirect pesticide effects. However, large scale means large workload. In the scope of my master thesis I set up and performed a mesocosm experiment at the National Wildlife Research Center in Ottawa, Canada. Follow me through my 10 steps of set-up.
2 open positions @ Norwegian Institute for Water Research
The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is seeking to employ a Senior Research Scientist, with expertise within in ecotoxicology and risk assessment, and a Research Scientist, with previous practical experience of working in an ecotoxicology laboratory.
Summer Academy 2016 – a review
Two weeks ago the “International Summer Academy on Spatial Ecotoxicology and Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment – Using an Open Community Approach” ended. In this post, Matthias Wieczorek, the main organiser of this event, wants to share some of his experiences and insights.