In this post, Jochen Zubrod reports on their recently published paper “Fungicides – an overlooked pesticide class?”.
Continue readingOverlooked but decisive: a review on fungicide risks in aquatic systems
Tag Archives: environmental risk assessment
Free IIES E-Course: Air Pollution & Human Health
The International Institute for Environmental Studies (IIES) offers a free online seminar series entitled “Air Pollution & Human Health”, running every Wednesday from February 20, 2019, to May 2, 2019.
Continue readingCan we use an American leaf shredder to assess sediment-associated metal risks in Europe?
In this post, Jochen Zubrod reports on their recently published paper “Is Hyalella azteca a suitable model leaf-shredding benthic crustacean for testing the toxicity of sediment-associated metals in Europe?”.
Continue readingAfter over 20 years of commercial use of GM crops, the impact on aquatic environments is insufficiently investigated
In this post, Antonia Pott talks about their recently published paper “Impact of genetically modified organisms on aquatic environments: Review of available data for the risk assessment”.
Continue readingInsecticides threaten U.S. surface waters
In this post, Jakob Wolfram talks about their recently published paper “Meta-analysis of Insecticides in U.S. Surface Waters: Status and Future Implications”.
Continue readingSERIOR public lecture on chemical mixtures & their risks for humans and environment on July 3rd
The German/French Graduate Academy “Security-Risk-Orientation” (SERIOR) is hosting a public lecture on chemical mixtures and their risks for humans and the environment at Campus Landau on July 3rd, 2018.
Costa Rica: A tropical e(coto)xperience – Part 6
In this series of posts, Carsten Brühl reports about his current trip to Costa Rica. Part 6 is all about his guest lecture in the “Tropical Ecotoxicology” masters program at National University of Costa Rica.
PhD position in Environmental Chemistry at NMBU
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.
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”.