Justus Liebig University is accepting applications for a PhD position (with a specialization in ecotoxicology, applied ecology and taxonomy). The position is initially limited to 3 years.
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The Department of Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling (Siam) located in Dübendorf (Zurich) is offering a PhD position in the field of ecological modelling. The position is planned to start in January 2024.
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In the first part of the ‘Glimpse of the year 2022’ series, we give our readers a glance of 3 most visited posts about scientific publications in this year.
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How climate change will alter the effects of toxicants is a key concern in the 21st Century. Rising water temperature can increase the toxicity of some contaminants to stream-dwelling animals in laboratory conditions, as has been shown for the most widely used insecticides in the world – the neonicotinoids. But until this study, whether this translates to more realistic environmental scenarios remained to be tested. In this blogpost, Sam Macaulay talks about his mesocosm experiment studying the effects of rising water temperatures and neonicotinoids on stream invertebrate communities.
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Verena Gerstle, PhD student at the Institute for Environmental Sciences in Landau, received the Young Scientist Award for Best Poster Presentation at the SETAC Europe 31st Annual Meeting.
Continue readingThe Department of Zoology at Oxford University, UK, is hiring a PostDoc researcher in multiple stressor ecology for three years, beginning in January 2021.
Continue readingWageningen University and Research is seeking a PhD student to assess the sublethal effects of psychotropics on aquatic species, populations and ecosystems.
Continue readingThe German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) offers a research position to investigate the effects and fate of substances using its mesocosm facility in Berlin.
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In this post, Verena Sesin talks about their recent publication “Macrophytes are highly sensitive to the herbicide diquat dibromide in test systems of varying complexity”.
In this series of posts, we present you some of the equipment and facilities we use to assess the fate and environmental impacts of chemical stressors. This time: The Landau Stream Mesocosm Facility.