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The call to join the PhytoPlastic project is now open!

What is required to join?

To participate, it is necessary to:

• be a Bachelor student, Master Student, PhD Student, or early Post‐Doc (PhD completion later 31st December 2019)
• be already a member/or join one of the limnological societies federated within EFFS (for a list click the link in this page)
• have enough time to perform the sampling activities (4 days for 4 sampling seasons) and any other project activity (data analysis, writing, meetings, etc)
• have access ...

We are pleased to invite you to take part in the final conference of the European project “PlasticØPyr” on April 21 and 22 in Setcases (Catalonia). Since October 2019, the seven promoters * of this project have devouted our efforts to achieving four results:
1. Develop tools to assess and disseminate the environmental impact of plastics on mountain ecosystems;
2. Study the effects of plastic waste on high mountain ecosystems and organisms, in particular aquatic ecosystems;
3. Design strategies to ...

 Have you ever wondered about women limnologists and their success in a male-dominated field? We have decided to show you that limnology is full of fascinating women who have vastly contributed to our understanding of inland waters, and their achievements deserve to be known, disseminated and, of course, taught in the classroom. Our new project has taken off!

Through a series of online resources, the project Gender LIMNOEDU – Meet the women in Limnology: developing teaching resources for university, aims to increase the ...

Buscamos candidata/o para la participar en la convocatoria de contratos predoctorales FPU (Ayudas para la formación de profesorado universitario), de cuatro años de duración. En caso de conseguir el contrato, realizaría su investigación en el marco del proyecto “Dinámica de metacomunidades de macroinvertebrados en lagunas alpinas y cambio climático (ALPINECHANGE)”, recientemente financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2019-108895GB-I00). La persona a contratar se incorporará al Departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de Sevilla, pero se integrará dentro de ...

The Jefferson Project at Lake George (https://jeffersonproject.rpi.edu/) is hiring two post-docs to conduct research in freshwater ecology. Research topics include invasive species, salinization, eutrophication, algal blooms, and global warming. The post-docs will conduct basic and applied experiments across multiple venues including the lab, land-based mesocosms, and in-lake mesocosms. They will also analyze high-frequency data from our highly advanced network of weather, stream, and lake sensors.

The Jefferson Project is an unprecedented research endeavor devised to study stream, wetland, and lake ecosystems ...