SCIence literacy BOaRd Game: The board game for science education has been designed as a new tool to improve the understanding of science in the field of informal youth education by WCL scientists as part of the INSE network with project partners from Greece and Romania (Share Education).
...and now available for download here!
For the second time in a row, we have the pleasure of celebrating the recognition of a dedicated summer intern’s report: Sarah Gassner’s account of her experiences at WasserCluster Lunz was awarded on March 13, 2025, at the Wiener Urania during a ceremony organized by the FFG. Congratulations – also to the three technicians who were responsible for the work instructions!
Sedimentary phosphate remobilisation and in-stream mitigation under climate change conditions
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The 27th edition of our institute's biannual newsletter has been published.
Elmira Akbari successfully defended her PhD thesis 'Effects of particulate organic carbon supply on microbial nutrient uptake in streams under agricultural land use pressure' on 13 December. Her supervisor was Gabriele Weigelhofer. Congratulations to her!
Carina Leimhofer successfully defended her Master's thesis at the University of Vienna on December 13, 2024. Her research on 'Effects of Salinization on Freshwater Phytoplankton and Invasion by Prymnesium parvum' was supervised by Robert Ptacnik. Congratulations!
Within the research project ‘HydroFat – Trophic fate of lipids in eutrophic aquatic ecosystems’, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), we are looking for highly motivated students with expertise in aquatic food webs ecology to pursue her/his PhD studies at the University of Vienna.
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