On July 1, 2024 a new research group under the leadership of Libor Závorka begins its scientific activities:
SciFish - the acronym stands for Synthesis of changes in Fish species and habitats - deals with the three main topics of Eco-evolutionary dynamics in lakes and rivers, Fish behavior and physiology, and Biology of aquatic invasions. Research aims of the SciFish group are to enhance our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms operating on organisms within aquatic ecosystems, and thereby facilitating their effective conservation.
Yinzhe Zhang successfully defended his PhD thesis “Studies on the trophic ecology of silver carp and bighead carp pelagic food webs in lakes based on fatty acids markers” on May 24, 2024 in Wuhan, China. He spent the year 2023 as a guest researcher of the LIPTOX group at WasserCluster. Congratulations from the whole team and good luck for the future!
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What happens when our waters warm up? And how do fish sense global change? On 24 May, these and other questions could be explored interactively with scientists from WasserCluster Lunz at two Long Night of Research locations. Both at the Bundesamt für Wasserwirtschaft in Petzenkirchen and at the University for Continuing Education in Krems, visitors showed great interest in the WCL stations. The next opportunity to gain an insight into and exchange ideas about science at the WasserCluster Lunz will be at the open day on Saturday, August 24, 2024 - save the date!
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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