Sebastian Pietz reports about this year’s SETAC YES Meeting (= Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’s Young Environmental Scientists Meeting), which was held in Ghent, Belgium, from February 5-10, 2019.
Continue readingThe Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig is offering two PostDoc positions within the project “CHEMO-RISK – Chemometers as novel tools for an integrative risk assessment framework of mixtures of pollutants”.
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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”.
We are hosting our International Online Autumn Academy on Spatial Ecotoxicology and Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment from November 1, 2018, to January 31, 2019.
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”.
A job is available as Senior Specialist Scientist in aquatic chemistry and ecotoxicology in Stirling, Scotland.
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”.
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
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.
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.