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.
Tag Archives: environmental risk assessment
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.
Sessions (co-)organised by Landau researchers @ SETAC AM in Brussels
In this post, we want to draw your attention to two sessions we are organising for the next SETAC Europe Annual Meeting.
Does the ecotoxicity of nanoparticles depend on the NOM quality of surface waters?
In this post, Frank Seitz reports about their recent paper “Quantity and quality of natural organic matter influence the ecotoxicity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles”. Continue reading
Interactive effects of multiple exposure routes on grazing invertebrates
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about their recently published paper “Multiple exposure routes of a pesticide exacerbate effects on a grazing mayfly”. Continue reading
“Simple is better”: A simple model predicts pesticide concentrations in the environment more reliably
Anja Knäbel reports about their recent paper “Aquatic exposure predictions of insecticide field concentrations using a multimedia mass-balance model”.