Interest in microplastic contamination in Antarctica is very recent. For this reason, researchers from University of Koblenz – Landau (Germany) and Universidad de Concepcion (Chile) decided to find out a little more about what is happening in the land of the penguins.
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Water and Climate Regulation: the self-purification of streams
This article presents the subproject Water and Climate Regulation of the INTERREG project ecoserv. The subproject further researches the self-purification potential of streams.
Continue readingResearch position in Trace Substance Analysis at UBA
The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is hiring a scientist for analysis of environmental fate and mitigation of trace chemical substances, with focus on wastewater treatment.
Continue readingPHOTOPUR Online-Symposium: 2 Days of Ecotoxicology, Wastewater & Green Technologies
The PHOTOPUR project is inviting you to a free scientific symposium on the treatment and evaluation of pesticide-contaminated wastewater using green technologies, hosted online on Zoom on December 9 and 10, 2020.
Continue readingPostDoc in toxicity testing of wastewater at Uni Copenhagen
The Environmental Toxicology Group at University of Copenhagen is offering a PostDoc position in in vitro and in vivo toxicity testing of wastewater.
Continue readingPostDoc position in Environmental Chemistry at Umeå University
Umeå University in Sweden offers a PostDoc position to address water treatment implementation challenges, with focus on developing biochar adsorbents.
Theses on the relevance of biodiversity to function relationships in heterotrophic aquatic systems under stress
Interested in the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functions under stress and looking for an internship, research project, BSc or MSc thesis? Join us!
Continue readingWastewater – a mix of micropollutants with diverse effects in local species
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about their recently published paper “Wastewater alters feeding rate but not vitellogenin level of Gammarus fossarum (Amphipoda)”.
Continue readingPostDoc position in Community Ecotoxicology at Eawag
The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) is hiring a PostDoc researcher in community ecotoxicology to assess how stream biofilms respond to exposure to micropollutants from wastewater treatment plants.
New Project: Relationship between biodiversity and functions under stress
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about a recently granted DFG-project “The relevance of the BIOdiversity TO FUNction relationship in heterotrophic aquatic systems under stress” with the unusual acronym “BIO2FUN”.