News - Soil Ecotoxicology
26. June 2025, Topic: Aquatic Ecotoxicology , Soil Ecotoxicology , Sediment Ecotoxicology , Risk Assessment
Ecotox Centre Dialogue Day 2025
We are pleased to invite you to this year's Ecotox Centre Dialogue Day, which will take place on Tuesday, 26 August 2025, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. in Bern (bilingual German/French with simultaneous translation).
Read more06. June 2025, Topic: Sediment Ecotoxicology , Soil Ecotoxicology , Aquatic Ecotoxicology , Risk Assessment
Ecotoxicological assessment of contaminated sites
A new report from the Ecotox Centre provides an overview of suitable bioassays for the assessment of contaminated sites.
Read more16. May 2025, Topic: Soil Ecotoxicology
Earthworms avoid tire abrasion
Tire abrasion gets from the road into the adjacent soil and can affect the soil organisms living there. A new study shows that earthworms avoid soil that is heavily contaminated with tire particles. However, the particles had no negative effects on the survival and reproduction of the animals.
Read more14. May 2025, Topic: Aquatic Ecotoxicology , Soil Ecotoxicology , Sediment Ecotoxicology , Risk Assessment
Ecotox Centre at EPFL - Interview with Christof Holliger
Christof Holliger, Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at EPFL, has been closely involved with the Ecotox Centre since it was founded in 2008, initially as part of the direction and the strategic steering committee and later as the representative of EPFL on the host institute council. He retired at the end of February 2025. Here he looks back.
Read more12. May 2025, Topic: Sediment Ecotoxicology , Soil Ecotoxicology
Replacement of peat in artificial soils and sediments
Last Tuesday, the Ecotox Centre hosted the kick-off meeting for the OECD project RePEAT, which seeks alternatives to peat as a source of organic matter in artificial soils and sediments.
Read more20. March 2025, Topic: Soil Ecotoxicology , Risk Assessment
Ecotoxicity of munitions contaminated soil
In areas used for military purposes, the soil can be contaminated with munitions and explosives, resulting in contaminated sites with potential impacts on the environment.
Read more05. February 2025, Topic: Aquatic Ecotoxicology , Soil Ecotoxicology , Sediment Ecotoxicology , Risk Assessment
Ecotox Centre in SRF Kassensturz on oven cleaners
Marion Junghans supported SRF Kassensturz in the evaluation of oven sprays.
Read more31. January 2025, Topic: Aquatic Ecotoxicology , Soil Ecotoxicology , Sediment Ecotoxicology , Risk Assessment
Successful dissertation
We congratulate Ali Kizgin on the successful defence of his dissertation. Over the past four years, Ali has been researching at the Ecotox Centre a key challenge in wastewater management - namely the early detection of pollution events using online biomonitoring.
Read more04. December 2024, Topic: Soil Ecotoxicology , Risk Assessment
Bioindicators and soil reference values for plant protection products
The Ecotox Centre is working on a comprehensive concept for monitoring pesticide residues in agricultural soils. As part of the project, we have developed a method for deriving ecotoxicological soil reference values - and have already applied it to two active substances - and have also compiled a toolbox with bioindicators for monitoring the effects of plant protection products.
Read more18. November 2024, Topic: Aquatic Ecotoxicology , Soil Ecotoxicology , Sediment Ecotoxicology , Risk Assessment
Training course for tire industry
Last week, we welcomed around 20 representatives of leading tire manufacturers for a two-day training course on ecotoxicology.
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