University of Copenhagen is offering a summer school on “Dynamic Modelling of Toxic Effects” from August 10-19, 2020.
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PostDoc position in crop pest modelling at ZALF
The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) near Berlin is hiring a PostDoc researcher for modelling of crop pest dynamics.
Continue readingWhat’s driving insecticide pollution in agricultural surface waters?
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.
Continue readingCourse on using GUTS models in risk assessment in Wageningen, Oct. 16-18, 2019
Wageningen University & Research offers the hands-on training course “Using the General Unified Threshold Model of Survival (GUTS) in risk assessment of plant protection products” in Wageningen from October 16-18, 2019.
Continue reading1-year position in Ecological Modelling at Ghent University
The Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology at Ghent University is offering a 1-year project on population models to improve ecological risk assessment of nickel.
Continue readingPhD opportunity in sediment transport modelling at SLU
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is looking for a PhD student in sediment transport modelling within its Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
PhD opportunity in Aquatic Ecotoxicology at IMDEA Water Institute in Spain
The Aquatic Ecotoxicology group of the IMDEA Water Institute located in Madrid offers a PhD position on the impacts of global change on the vulnerability of aquatic ecosystems to chemical stress.
PostDoc position in Water Quality Modelling at Eawag
The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) is hiring a PostDoc in water quality modelling with focus on pesticide pollution.
Predicting mixture toxicity of pesticides – concentration addition is often protective
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about their recent publication “Assessing the effects of field-relevant pesticide mixtures for their compliance with the concentration addition model – an experimental approach with Daphnia magna”.
PhD opportunity in community ecology and pollution effects
The Environmental Ecosystem Ecology Lab at University of Namur, Belgium, offers a PhD position in community ecology to examine the effects of global change (temperature and pollution) on coexistence in competitive phytoplankton communities.