Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Eawag researcher Johannes Raths (right) has won the SETAC Europe Rifcon Early Career Scientist Award for his paper on the toxicokinetics of amphipods at increased water temperatures. Here, receiving the award in Dublin. (Photo: SETAC)

May 10, 2023

May 10, 2023Eawag researcher Johannes Raths has won a prize for his study of increased pollutant absorption with rising water temperatures.

The four founders of the Eawag spin-off (Photo: Eawag, Peter Penicka)

May 9, 2023

May 9, 2023Environmental engineer Wenzel Gruber and microbiologist Robert Niederdorfer – both Eawag postdocs – founded the spin-off Upwater together with two other partners at the beginning of November 2022. It offers measurements for wastewater treatment plants to support them in reducing process instabilities, greenhouse gas emissions as well as energy consumption.

In comparison: at the back, the glacier-fed river with turbid cold water, and at the front, the inflow of warmer, clear water. For many microorganisms, these ice-cold bodies of water are the ideal and only habitat. (Photo: Lee Brown)

May 8, 2023

May 8, 2023When glaciers retreat, the habitats for cold-water organisms also change. Researchers have now modelled where refuges that are vital for biodiversity in glacial rivers will remain in the future.

The dry summer of 2022 led to unconventional solutions - such as supplying water to an alp near Grandvillard/FR with army helicopters. (Picture: DDPS, Jonas Kambli)

April 28, 2023

April 28, 2023The hot summer made water supply security a political issue in 2022. Added to this were deficits in groundwater protection and "eternal" chemicals.

Warming of lakes reduces interactions in plankton networks – in the picture a microscope image is shown of a plankton community from Lake Greifen (Photo: Marta Reyes, Eawag).

March 23, 2023

March 23, 2023Thanks to a unique data set from lakes, Eawag has succeeded in determining how plankton networks respond to climate change and phosphate levels.