Last changed: 31.05.2022“Resources from the bowl are the key” (in German: "Ressourcen aus der Schüssel sind der Schlüssel") is the title of a discussion paper that Sabine Hoffmann, Lisa Deutsch and Kai Udert developed togeth
Last changed: 31.05.2022Oliver Schilling spends most of his working time at the University of Basel, where he has been gathering his research group around him as a new assistant professor of hydrogeology since the beginning
Last changed: 31.05.2022Andrin Krähenbühl has been fishing since childhood. He studied biology at the University of Bern – strongly connected to water and to Eawag. Because he really wanted to work with water one day. For hi
Last changed: 31.05.2022Nathalie Dubois’ research focuses on lake sediments in Switzerland and around the world. With her group, she analyses layer by layer the sediments deposited in lakes and uses them to reconstruct past
Last changed: 31.05.2022Data provides a central basis for scientific work. In the process, the possibilities for obtaining data are rapidly increasing, as is the spatial and temporal resolution of this data. This wealth of d
Last changed: 03.06.2022"Innovations from the ETH Domain: Insights into research in the service of Switzerland." Under this motto, the ETH Domain welcomed Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and around sixty other high-ranking g
Last changed: 24.05.2022Under the supervision of Kristin Schirmer and Barbara Jozef, Frank has developed a protocol in his work at Eawag to be able to carry out and analyse a "high-throughput" in vitro test with fish cells.
Last changed: 16.06.2022Metabolomics in green algae Aquatic organisms are exposed to an ever-increasing variety of chemicals. In the area of chemical risk assessment and molecular ecotoxicology it is therefore crucial to ide
Last changed: 22.06.2022You took over the function as Eawag’s Environmental representative at the beginning of 2021 – in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. As arduous as the enforced standstill has been for all of us, t
Last changed: 23.06.2022The comic reportage “Researching with faeces” is one of a total of four contributions by Celine Künzle for the current issue of the comic magazine Strapazin. In all the articles, she portrays persons
Last changed: 27.06.2022The oceans are teeming with countless forms of life, from the world’s largest creature – the blue whale – to miniscule microorganisms. In addition to their vast numbers, these microorganisms are also
Last changed: 27.06.2022When thermometers in California recorded scorching temperatures in the summer of 2000, even the salmon in Klamath River felt the effects. The temperature of the water drove them to gather in unusually
Last changed: 29.06.2022Peter Reichert says: “I am fascinated by using mathematical methods to contribute to understanding environmental systems and to support their management.” When he came to Eawag in April 1985, after co
Last changed: 29.06.2022On a perfect summer evening, the boat “Stadt Uster” set sail last Friday. While the passengers were sipping their aperitifs, the boat headed first for the Eawag research platform anchored off the smal
Last changed: 01.07.2022It’s a hot topic, at least on social media: tiny plastic particles allegedly end up not only in oceans and lakes, but also in drinking water – and, yes, even in bottled mineral water. Eawag and the Zu
Last changed: 04.07.2022Karin Ingold, group leader at Eawag, professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern and vice president of the Oeschger Center for Climate Research, has been involved in the
Last changed: 05.07.2022When fish ingest microplastics, they often also ingest progesterone. This compound is subsequently released into the digestive tract through chemical reactions with the fish’s digestive fluids. That’s
Last changed: 07.07.2022“In the laboratory, you have very controlled conditions, but the results cannot always be transferred 1:1 to the outside world because our world is much more complex,” explains Christoph Walcher from
Last changed: 13.07.2022It covers water governance issues such as flood protection and fisheries, as well as overarching concepts like integrated water management and social-ecological interactions.
Last changed: 18.07.2022On 29 June 2022, the Federal Council elected Martin Ackermann as the new Director of Eawag at the request of the ETH Board. “We are very pleased with today’s news,” says Janet Hering on behalf of the
Last changed: 18.07.2022African species have so far been completely underrepresented in projects to decode their genome. The African BioGenome Project therefore wants to sequence the genomes of 105,000 endemic plants, animal
Last changed: 19.07.2022This year, once again around 60 guests from Swiss politics, business and administration accepted the invitation of the ETH Domain to visit Davos. As part of the World Economic Forum, Federal Councillo
Last changed: 19.07.2022The series with Salome Mwaiko , Claire Aksamit , Tim Alexander , Rohini Athavale und Bernhard Wehrli was created as part of a photojournalism course that Christian Dinkel is tanking at the MAZ in Luce
Last changed: 19.07.2022The joint initiatives focus on the strategic research priorities "Energy, Climate and Environmental Sustainability" and "Engagement and Dialogue with Society". In the strategic focus "Energy, Climate
Last changed: 19.07.2022Mr Bouffard, you were instrumental in the conception of the Info Day “Dynamic Waters: New Tools, New Opportunities” at Eawag. Why is this symposium necessary? The technologies and tools for recording
Last changed: 21.07.2022Mika Marttunen worked as a researcher and Valerie Belton as an academic guest at Eawag. Together with Judit Lienert they received an award for their review "Structuring problems for Multi-Criteria Dec
Last changed: 13.07.2022Within the conference the top 3 Splash Talk Presentations were honored with a prize based on reviewers’ ratings and conference participants’ votes. Authors: Jan Streit, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute
Last changed: 21.07.2022Their paper "Global socio-technical regimes“ develops a novel perspective on how conventional centralized wastewater infrastructure is diffused around the world. It is available as a working paper .
Last changed: 28.07.2022The new national research programme “Advancing 3R – Animals, Research and Society”(NRP 79) of the Swiss National Science Foundation promotes scientific projects that contribute to improving, reducing
Last changed: 28.07.2022The day covered some of the political and technical key aspects to the implementation of safe RRR businesses promoting cost recovery in Lima’s sanitation systems by turning waste streams into valuable
Last changed: 28.07.2022In particular the role of water science and technology innovation and the necessary institutional-economic enabling environment to foster sustainable behavioral change in current water use and depleti
Last changed: 28.07.2022The organization runs waste treatment facilities, a mobile toilet service for events and construction sites, and a household toilet service for the urban areas of Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitian. SOIL
Last changed: 28.07.2022The first stakeholder workshop in FANFAR was successfully carried out in Niamey, Niger, from 16. – 20. September 2018. Around 40 decision-makers and stakeholders from 15 West African countries partici
Last changed: 28.07.2022From 14 to 17 March 2018, a group of 34 leading experts from academia and practice met at the “Centro Congressi Stefano Franscini” at Monte Verità in Ascona to discuss the future of urban water manage
Last changed: 02.08.2022"Wow, that's so beautiful!" – Children and adults were audibly enthralled by images from the Eawag underwater camera Aquascope during the "Science City 2019 Meeting Point" exhibition at the ETH Zurich
Last changed: 02.08.2022Can drones help meticulously monitor the water quality of large water bodies? That is the hope of Francesco Pomati, biologist and Group Leader at the aquatic research institute Eawag. Pomati sees pote
Last changed: 02.08.2022The sky is cloudless, the air humid. People are longing for a refreshing dip in the lake. The water, however, sometimes does not seem so inviting – it might have a greenish or reddish colour – and the
Last changed: 02.08.2022There was a mix of presentations and group work sessions, which allowed Eawag researchers to share their knowledge and provided the participants with opportunities to develop ideas for new solutions.
Last changed: 02.08.2022The work explores in-depth questions on voter turnout and voting decisions in the run-up to the 2015 National Council and Council of States elections (NZZ Libro Verlag).
Last changed: 04.08.2022Eawag employees lecture at different universities. On the departmental pages you will find an overview of the current respective lectures: Department Aquatic Ecology Department Environmental Chemistry
Last changed: 08.08.2022Certain sources of chemical pollution of the aquatic environment, such as agriculture or municipal wastewater, are now reasonably well known. But knowledge of the quantities and diversity of synthetic
Last changed: 09.08.2022The keynote was held by Paul Polak, serial social entrepreneur and co-author of The Business Solution to Poverty. He highlighted the need to enter into a direct dialogue with poor customers before des
Last changed: 09.08.2022In his work the market potential of on-site treatment systems are estimated on a spatially explicit scale with help of geographical information systems (GIS). With help of the developed methodology th
Last changed: 09.08.2022The article "An agenda for service research at the base of the pyramid" was rewarded for its important social contribution to the service research community. The article develops an agenda for service
