WasserCluster Lunz

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    Excellent presentation

    Pratiksha Acharya, PhD candidate at WCL, was awarded the 'Colin S. Reynolds Prize for the Best Oral Presentation' at the 14th Symposium for Freshwater Sciences (SEFS14, 20-25 July 2025, in Bolu, Turkey). Title of her talk: "Comparative analysis of bacterial assemblages in shredder-derived particles and the gut reveals taxa-specific differences."
    Congratulations!

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    Vienna Children's University: How many aquatic monsters can live in a lake?

    On 14 July, Katrin Attermeyer and Libor Závorka delivered a popular lecture as part of the Vienna Children's University. The young participants learned interesting facts about food webs, trophic levels, and the influence of energy flow on the ecosystem of Lake Lunz. The thought model also discussed the potential role of the lake monster Lunzi in maintaining the balance in the habitat.

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    Current issue: WCL Newsletter #28

    The 28th edition of our institute's biannual newsletter has been published.

Seminar Series

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Longterm ecological research

WasserCluster Lunz is member of GLEON and study Lake Lunz as a permanent study site.

Moreover Lunz is a mastersite in the LTER platform Eisenwurzen. (person to contact: Robert Ptacnik)

Current physical properties of Lake Lunz

Wassercluster Lunz

About WasserCluster Lunz

WasserCluster Lunz is a non-profit research center equally supported by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU Vienna), the University for Continuing Education Krems, and the University of Vienna. The research centre is financed by the Provincial Government of Lower Austria and the Municipality of Vienna. | Imagefilm 3'30 min

Research

WasserCluster Lunz pursues basic and applied research on aquatic ecosystems from microscopic to catchment scales. Our scientists conduct studies in international teams to investigate scientific problems of aquatic ecosystems; including effects of global change, significance and magnitude of aquatic-terrestrial interlinkages and aquatic ecosystem management and rehabilitation.

Education

WasserCluster Lunz offers university and postgraduate training at an international level, provides internships and accomplishes research-education cooperation at local and national scales.

Visiting Scientists

WasserCluster Lunz welcomes enquiries from scientists who are interested in a sabbatical leave in our research centre. Interested persons are invited to contact us: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Open Day

The WasserCluster Lunz organizes an open day for interested visitors every two years. The next one is expected to take place in 2026.


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