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”.
Tag Archives: risk assessment
Scientist position in Aquatic Chemistry and Ecotoxicology in Scotland
A job is available as Senior Specialist Scientist in aquatic chemistry and ecotoxicology in Stirling, Scotland.
PostDoc position in Computational Toxicology at NIVA
The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is hiring a PostDoc as database developer and data scientist in computational toxicology in its section “Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment”.
Costa Rica: A tropical e(coto)xperience – Part 1
In this series of posts, Carsten Brühl reports about his current trip to Costa Rica. Part 1 is all about his first impressions and what he learned about pesticide use on tropical crops such as the bananas that get shipped to Germany. Continue reading
BECT 100th Volume Special Issue – Free access
In this post, we briefly highlight the 100th Volume Special Issue of the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (BECT), which is freely accessible until 23 March 2018.
PhD position in Ecotoxicological Modelling at Ghent University
The Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology at Ghent University is offering a PhD project with focus on fish population models to improve ecological risk assessment of copper and zinc.
New Amphibian Ecotoxicology project funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation
In this post, Elena Adams is presenting her new project “The impact of pesticides on amphibians – Effects of environmentally relevant pesticide mixtures and formulations on German Anura” for which she received a doctoral scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
Sessions (co-)organised by Landau researchers at SETAC AM in Rome
In this post, we would like to draw your attention to six sessions that we are (co-)organising for the upcoming SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting in Rome from 13-17 May 2018.
Environmental friendliness of mosquito control with Bti questioned
In this post, Carsten Brühl informs about their recently published paper “Decreasing Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis sensitivity of Chironomus riparius larvae with age indicates potential environmental risk for mosquito control”.
Open position as Ecological Modeller at Rifcon
The scientific consulting company Rifcon in Hirschberg is hiring an Ecological Modeller for their “Population Modelling and Statistics” team.