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!
Leonie Haferkemper (AG CARBOCROBE) successfully defended her Master's thesis at the University of Vienna on January 23. The title of her thesis is: "Microbial Activity and Biochemical Particle Composition Along a Fine Particle Size Continuum in Mountain vs Agricultural Streams." Congratulations to her!
Tjaša Matjašič (AG FLUVICHEM) successfully completed her dissertation on 19 December in Lunz. The title of her thesis is: Plastic pollution in the hyporheic zone: occurrence and its interaction with microorganisms. Congratulations to her!
Marina Ivanković (AG AquaScale) successfully defended her PhD thesis at the University of Vienna in December. The topic of her thesis was focussed on: Mixotrophic bacterivory in lake ecosystems under current and potential climate conditions under the supervision of Robert Ptacnik and Mia Bengtsson. Congratulations!