What happens when our waters warm up?
On May 24, 2024, young inquisitive minds will once again experience research up close and in an exciting way. WasserCluster Lunz is taking part in the Long Night of Research with current issues: at | Bundesamt für Wasserwirtschaft in Petzenkirchen and | Universität für Weiterbildung Krems | from 5 pm
Martin Tschikof received his doctoral degree on May 10, 2024 with his successful defense at BOKU. The title of his thesis: Effects of floodplain restoration on nutrient retention and multi-functionality on the river reach and basin scales, supervised by Thomas Hein and Gabriele Weigelhofer. Congratulations!
The SCIBORG project, led by Laura Coulson, was successfully launched on April 11th in Beautiful Arad, Romania. Eva Feldbacher, the project leader of INSE, Lucia Matei representing ShareEdu, and Konstantinos Lekkas and Cristina Morar from Dracon Rules Design Studio, were also present at the kick-off meeting. The project partners met to share first ideas on the design steps for board game development. They also discussed the concept of science literacy and the steps moving forward.
We are looking forward to great news on your collaboration and the launch of the new board game.
The WasserCluster Sustainability Initiative will enter its fourth year in April 2024. On this occasion, we are delighted to share with you what is perhaps our greatest success to date: since 2021, we managed to reduce electricity consumption at our institute by 20%! We achieved this by rethinking our working practices, collaborative actions to promote awareness of energy-saving behaviour and, above all, by our dedicated team taking on social responsibility.
Last summer, we were delighted to welcome Katharina Frey, who completed an FFG-funded talent internship at WasserCluster. Now her report was honored as one of the best internship reports of the year at an award ceremony at the Urania in Vienna on February 29, 2024. Congratulations!
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On March 5 and 6, the members of the Scientific Advisory Board once again had the opportunity to gain an impression of the developments at the WasserCluster through personal discussions and informative presentations by all working groups.
On January 31, 2024, Florian Caillon successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Vienna. Title: "Understanding the Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Microbial Diversity in Small Headwater Streams." Congratulations!