Last changed: 24.03.2022The results are encouraging: nowhere was the difference greater than 2 %. Up to 5 % is considered acceptable or within the range of uncertainty. While at the major schools ETH Zurich and EPFL, as well
Last changed: 18.03.2022From a global perspective, lake sediments are important carbon sinks. Carbon that was once present as CO 2 in air is bound within organic matter and then deposited on the bottom of lakes, for example
Last changed: 18.03.2022The study, which was recently published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), is controversial, as it shows just how colonial the globalised research community still i
Last changed: 18.03.2022Underwater landslides occur particularly where large quantities of sediment are deposited on steep slopes within a short period of time. Usually, this is a fan-like region in the river deltas of a lak
Last changed: 22.03.2022The development of this war will have serious consequences for the Ukrainian universities as well as for the researchers and students. Therefore, the ETH Board and the institutions of the ETH Domain w
Last changed: 17.03.2022This makes the four researchers among the most-cited and influential scientists worldwide – either in their specific field or for their cross-field performance. Clarivate Analytics has been publishing
Last changed: 17.03.2022With the help of Eawag researchers, the Swiss Academy of Sciences have collected facts on the problem of excessive nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in the environment. The two substances originate ma
Last changed: 17.03.2022For their recently published study in the journal Aqua&Gas, researchers examined 20 catchments across the Swiss plateau and the Jura region. With the help of drone images, maps and on-foot inspections
Last changed: 15.03.2022Even though eDNA studies can never wholly replace conventional species identification and enumeration, this new approach is more than just an additional tool. But what are its advantages and disadvant
Last changed: 15.03.2022Manuel Fischer joined the aquatic research institute Eawag as a post-doctoral researcher in 2012. Since 2014 he has been head of the research group for political analysis and environmental governance
PEAK-Vertiefungskurs V54/22 Die Wirkungskontrolle bei Revitalisierungsprojekten an Fliessgewässern folgt seit 2020 einem schweizweit einheitlichen Vorgehen mit standardisierten Methoden (Indikator-Set
Last changed: 15.03.2022In Switzerland, going to the toilet is an everyday occurrence. Not so in other countries. Even today, over two billion people still have no access to sanitary facilities. There are many different reas
Last changed: 15.03.2022They are a beautiful sight to behold: carpets of floating plants such as the water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes ) in the Zambezi catchment. However, they are also an indicator of inadequate wastewa
Last changed: 10.03.2022Barbara Jozef presented her latest advances on the project Nutritional Development of a serum-free culture medium. Further Info to the Webinar
Last changed: 07.03.2022The EAG writes in its appreciation: “Lenny Winkel has made major contributions to the understanding of selenium occurrence in soils and arsenic occurrence in groundwater by integrating global-scale ma
Last changed: 25.02.2022We studied the evolutionary change of Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1 during experimental coevolution with its algal host across six experimental replicates and found single nucleotide polymorph
Last changed: 25.02.2022It takes two to three weeks for the young of songbirds such as House Wrens and Barn Swallows to grow big and strong enough to leave the nest. These crucial weeks determine whether the parent birds are
Last changed: 24.02.2022With today's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the UN is working to promote careers of female researchers. This day reminds us of the importance of introducing young generations to fema
Last changed: 10.02.2022“Most Swiss people think that qualitatively flawless groundwater can be obtained in sufficient quantities without any problems in this country. However, Eawag researcher Mario Schirmer, co-initiator a
Last changed: 03.02.2022In 2020, Eawag and WSL jointly launched the Blue-Green Biodiversity (BGB) research initiative to study biodiversity at the interface of water and land. Currently, 13 postdoctoral researchers from all
Last changed: 03.02.2022The loss of biodiversity is, next to climate change, one of the biggest challenges humanity is facing. Research and action to reverse and mitigate the loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem fun
Last changed: 03.02.2022The ETH Board is providing 6.5 million Swiss Francs for the strategic research initiative "Blue-Green Biodiversity" of Eawag and WSL. Between 2020 and 2024, the initiative is intended to strengthen th
Last changed: 07.02.2022The honour was afforded to Prof. Janet Hering, Director of Eawag, Prof. Rik Eggen, Deputy Director of Eawag, and Prof. Alfred Johny Wüest, a member of the Eawag Directorate up until 2021. The VSA has
Last changed: 01.02.2022Using the model electrophile CDNB she could follow its transformation to the mercapturate using LC-MS. The data provides an important contribution towards using zebrafish cell lines for animal-free hi
Last changed: 01.02.2022How do you measure whether a chemical substance is safe for the environment? By exposing live fish to increasing doses of this chemical until they finally die. And how do you measure whether the water
Last changed: 01.02.2022Receiving two awards with her ground-breaking research on developing a serum-free medium for routine culture of fish cell lines: the ESTIV best poster award AND the ECOPA young researcher award both w
Last changed: 01.02.2022The Dr. Alain Donzel Award for best poster snapshot oral presentation at the NanoBioTech-Montreux Conference, and the SGHL Poster Award 2021 at the 19th Swiss Geoscience Meeting. Both prizewinning pos
Last changed: 01.02.2022He presented his work conducted in the project EcoImpact 2.0 on the impact of wastewater on stream biofilms. Louis Carles is now invited to present his work at the EcotoxicoMic 2022 Conference (Montpe
Last changed: 03.02.2022For this great achievement she is now awarded the Master of Science degree by the University of Zurich. Congratulations, Melissa!
Last changed: 01.02.2022For the elimination of trace substances at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), granular activated carbon (GAC) is also available as an alternative treatment option to ozonation and the powdered activa
Last changed: 28.01.2022The silver medals of ETH Zurich were awarded at the graduation ceremony for students receiving master’s and doctoral degrees. The award honours excellent theses and dissertations with a prize of 2,000
Last changed: 20.01.2022Every living thing requires energy. This is also true of microorganisms. This energy is frequently generated in the cells by respiration, that is by the combustion of organic compounds, in other words
Last changed: 26.01.2022Am 9. April 2022 findet der neue FIBER-Kurs «Es kreucht und fleucht – was fressen unsere Fische?» zu den Nahrungsgrundlagen unserer Fische statt. Nebst einer theoretischen Einführung zu den Grundlagen
Last changed: 13.01.2022Although it is actually only a prototype, the fully automated mobile water laboratory known as MS2field is already delivering reliable – and controversial – data. In an article published today in the
Last changed: 13.01.2022On 21 November 2020, Matthew Moy de Vitry received the ETH Zurich Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize, an award which recognises outstanding doctoral and Master’s theses in the field of water protection
Last changed: 13.01.2022Carsten Schubert studied geology at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen (Germany). He joined Eawag in 2001 and took over the biogeochemistry group. Since 2012 he has also been head of the Surface
Last changed: 18.01.2022Eawag has long used Lake Greifen as its in-house laboratory and lecture room on its doorstep. It is therefore clear that Eawag research should not be absent from the New Year's Bulletin of the Natural
Last changed: 10.12.2021The twelve participants of this year's competition all took advantage of the opportunity to present their poster and explain their work. Posters and presentations were not only evaluated by a jury but
Last changed: 10.12.2021The twelve participants of this year's competition all took advantage of the opportunity to present their poster and explain their work. Posters and presentations were not only evaluated by a jury but
Last changed: 09.12.2021"Biodiversity loss in freshwater is a global crisis that is literally hidden beneath the water surface," stated Professor Sonja Jähnig of the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheri
Last changed: 08.12.2021The monumental “Rivers of Europe”, first published by Elsevier in 2008 is the only primary source of complete and comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of more t
Last changed: 07.12.2021In each of the two thirty-minute podcast episodes, Laura Kohler (CAWST) and Dorothee Spuhler (Sandec-Eawag) present an important paper on the topic of sanitation. The podcast series is called “Papers
Last changed: 02.12.2021How does a machine recognise plankton? In much the same way as people recognise the faces of other people. Two processes come together here. First, certain regions of the human brain are specialised i
Last changed: 29.11.2021Kristin Schirmer joined Eawag in 2008 as the new head of the Environmental Toxicology department. She had already qualified as a professor in 2006 at the ETH Zurich (ETHZ) where she taught ecotoxicolo
Last changed: 29.11.2021For over 100 years, fish ladders have been fitted to hydro-electric plants and other obstacles in order to assist migrating fish, but there is a distinct lack of downstream passage facilities that act
