Akvaplan-niva in Norway is looking for a master student to investigate levels of contaminant mixtures in humpback and killer whales along the coast of Northern-Norway.
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PhD position in Aquatic Ecology at Uni Duisburg-Essen
University of Duisburg-Essen is offering a PhD position in aquatic ecology with focus on the effects of multiple stressors on the quality of aquatic systems.
Continue readingPostDoc position in Environmental Chemistry at Umeå University
Umeå University in Sweden offers a PostDoc position to address water treatment implementation challenges, with focus on developing biochar adsorbents.
Does the treatment of contaminated groundwater with a nanoscaled zero valent iron-based remediation agent increase or decrease the environmental risk?

In this post, Mirco Weil reports on their recently published paper “Environmental risk or benefit? Comprehensive risk assessment of groundwater treated with nano Fe0-based Carbo-Iron®.”
Continue readingFree IIES Graduate Student Online Seminar Series on Environmental Topics

The International Institute for Environmental Studies (IIES) and the Trent University Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program offer the free “International Graduate Student Online Seminar Series” on environmental science topics running every other week from May 15, 2019 until July 31, 2019.
Continue readingMSc thesis on mercury contamination in arctic fox at Fraunhofer IME
The Fraunhofer IME and the German Federal Environment Agency jointly offer a MSc thesis on mercury contamination in arctic fox.
Continue readingVisiting Argentina – the land of beef and mate tea

Alexander Feckler shares his experience during his visit at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP) and the Universidad de Córdoba (UCO) in Argentina, as part of an internationalization project of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
Continue reading2 PhD opportunities in Ecotoxicology/Marine Ecology with the Nansen Legacy at UiO and UNIS in Norway
The University of Oslo (UiO) and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) each offer one PhD position in ecotoxicology and marine ecology, respectively, within the Nansen Legacy project.
Continue readingCatching up with peers at the 2nd IIES Graduate Students Forum Asia
In this post, Verena Sesin talks about her visit at the 2nd IIES Graduate Students Forum Asia themed “Soil Contamination & Remediation and Water Contamination & Management” in Hong Kong from November 1-3, 2018.
International Grad Student Online Lecture: Share your environmental research
Share your environmental research with an international audience by joining the “International Graduate Student Lecture Series 2019”, organized by the International Institute for Environmental Studies and the Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program at Trent University. This online lecture series is open to any graduate student – submit your abstract until November 24th, 2018.