For the new WCL PostDoc Fellowship Program, that is going to start at WCL in 2015, we invite young scientists to apply. The PostDoc Fellowship Program supports high scientific quality and productivity with strong cooperation of the incoming PostDoc candidate with the working groups at WCL. Successful candidates need to link their research to core topics of at least two research areas established at WCL. Application deatline is February 9th 2015.
The Association of different regions of the province of Lower Austria (Regionalverband NÖ) awarded 2014 for the sixth time the „Sternengreifer“ award, an award that is annually given to people, who generated exceptional achievements for the region Mostviertel. This year group leader Martin Kainz was one of the awardees.
Marlene Radolf, master student in the working group BioFrames, defended successfully her msc thesis. She investigated the performance of four batch loaded vertical flow and four horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland mesocosms in the tropical environment of Uganda.
Andrea Gall, master student in the working group LipTox, defended successfully her msc thesis. She investigated how increase of water temperature and brownification affects the nutritional quality conducive for somatic growth and reproduction of herbivorous zooplankton.
The history of limnology can hardly be imagined without the Biological Station Lunz. The historians Katja Geiger and Thomas Mayer are going to reprocess the history of the BSL, which goes back nearly 110 years, and presented first results of their project on Friday, 24th October, in WCL.
The Sparkling Science Project "PowerStreams" started on Oct 1st. In this research-education-cooperation, scientists work together with schools to measure the efficiency and sustainability of nutrient and organic matter uptake in slightly to heavily polluted streams. Our partner schools are Francisco Josephinum, BRG Waidhofen/Ybbs, BORG Mistelbach and HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein.
Working group leader Robert Ptacnik received on September 16th his postdoctoral lecture qualification at the University of Vienna in the subject Aquatic Ecology. The title of his habilitation lecture was „Fresh and salty: Spatial pattern in plankton diversity along natural stress gradients“. Robert Ptacnik teaches aquatic biodiversity and multivariate statistics in Vienna.
After 34 years emeritus professor Otto Siebeck from Munich visited his former domain. He was very delighted to see a flourishing research center. For WCL it was an honor to welcome professor Siebeck, who worked in Lunz in the fiftiys and sixties and investigated vertical zooplankton movement and seasonal zooplankton abundance.