Welcome

The primary goals of the interdisciplinary team of the department of Environmental Chemistry are to achieve a mechanistic understanding of the exposure of the aquatic environment to anthropogenic organic (micro-) pollutants and the fate of these pollutants in the water cycle, and to derive mitigation measures to improve water quality

Our focus is on studying point and diffuse sources of organic compounds from urban and agricultural areas. Important tools for investigating fate processes of organic contaminants in natural and engineered environments as well as the management of aquatic systems are organic trace analysis and modelling.

Our research results directly feed into teaching, continuing education and external consulting.

NEWS

“First Eawag Pesticide Spectra on MassBank”

Emma Schymanski, Michael Stravs

Eawag spectra are now available on MassBank. These recalibrated, noise-reduced Orbitrap MS/MS spectra are now publically available as part of the NORMAN Network push to increase the availability of MS/MS spectra of environmental compounds. The spectra were recalibrated using the RMassBank workflow, now available as an R Package from the Uchem Software page. Feedback about the spectra is welcome to massbank@eawag.ch or on metabolomics-forum.com. More information is available here.