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9th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences
From 5 to 10 July, the University of Geneva is hosting the 9th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences. Freshwater availability is in doubt. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of the 2030 Water Resources Group and Nestlé gives a public lecture in this context. There will be an opportunity for d…
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New paper in Environmental Science & Technology
Devarajan et al. (2015) Accumulation of Clinically Relevant Antibiotic-Resistance Genes, Bacterial Load, and Metals in Freshwater Lake Sediments in Central Europe In this study we elaborate the periodic accumulation of toxic metals, bacteria and clinically relevant antbiotic resistance genes in the…
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Swiss research in the Mediterranean
Despite the landlocked character of Switzerland, Swiss scientists are quite active in ocean studies. The country is a full member of the Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM), with headquarters in Monaco and presided by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. CIESM is supporting a network of several thou…
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Congratulations to Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel was awarded with the Denali Recent Accomplishment Award at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Chicago. He received the award for his outstanding work on climate change impacts on mass movements in the Swiss Alps. Markus is the first researcher outside Nor…
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New COST action started
Last week the COST action Network on technology-critical elements - from environmental processes to human health threats (TD1407) was launched in Brussels, with Montserrat Filella (Institut F.-A. Forel) as a Vice-chair. TD1407 aims at fostering the study of TCEs (Nb, Ta, Ga, In, Ge, Tl, Te, Pt gr…
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Department of Earth Sciences selected for the AAPG's Imperial Barrel Award
For the fist time, a Swiss team consisting of 5 Earth Science MSc students and a Faculty advisor from the Department of Earth Sciences of UNIGE participated to the 2015 European semi-finals of the Imperial Barrel Award, an international renown annual competition organized by the AAPG in Prague (CZ).…
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Lake Ladoga: Life Under Ice
An exciting new project has started in lakes Onega and Ladoga, Russia, to investigate under-ice processes in the largest European lakes during the ice-covered period. This collaborative research effort includes different institutions from Switzerland (EPFL, Eawag, UniGE), Russia (NWPI, IL, AARI, NIE…
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Field trip to Antarctica
Richard Spikings from the isotope geochemistry and geochronology group recently completed one month of field work in the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. This project was the first field trip of a new PhD student in the Earth science department, Joaquin Bastias. A total of 400kg o…
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New Paper in Environmental Science & Technology
Size Does Matter: Importance of Large Bubbles and Small-Scale Hot Spots for Methane Transport T. DelSontro, D. F. McGinnis, B. Wehrli and I. Ostrovsky Methane bubble release from freshwater sediments is the most efficient pathway for atmospheric release of this important greenhouse gas. Due to the…
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New paper in Geology
The role of gravitational instabilities in deposition of volcanic ash Irene Manzella, Costanza Bonadonna, Jeremy C. Phillips, Hélène Monnard An accurate description of the sedimentation of volcanic ash is crucial to the mitigation of volcanic risk, but it is limited by our poor understanding of co…