WasserCluster Lunz

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    Team Up — Clean Up!

    Equipped with snorkeling gear or waders, a WCL team set off on a major clean-up operation: the shore areas of Lake Lunz were cleared of several bags of garbage, which certainly had no place in the lake.

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    WCL Open day!

    On August 23 and 23, 2024, we were delighted with the interest shown in our open day events. The program included a series of lectures on Friday and family-friendly hands-on stations in the labs, guided tours and culinary delights on Saturday.

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    Rescue - “Person overboard” exercise scenario

    The technicians at WasserCluster Lunz completed an important informative rescue exercise. Regular sampling from the boat requires the best possible safety concept as well as training and preparation for emergencies.

News and Events

Seminar Series

Zsófia Horváth | HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary
Role of connectivity in natural, urban and experimental pond networks
September 11th, 2024, 14:00 CET, BSL SR + online via zoom
All seminars, videos, pictures,...

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

WasserCluster Lunz organizes an open day for interested visitors every two years. The next one will take place this year on Saturday, August 24, 2024. On the evening before (August 23, 2024) we invite you to a public lecture about our scientific activities.


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