"Focus of my four week visit at WCL is to analyze Baltic Sea salmon (Salmo salar L.) muscle and eggs for fatty acids as a collaborator in the group of LIPTOX led by Dr. Martin Kainz. Fatty acids should help me reveal the last feeding areas of returning salmon in the Baltic Sea. The second purpose for FA analysis is to assess the main prey species proportions (herring and sprat) in salmon diet: is there a dietary effect on female salmon reproduction success? Also separation of reared and wild salmon using fatty acid profiles is strongly considered."
Christina Gaitzenauer successfully defended her MSc-thesis "Nutrient retention along stream banks of different morphology". We congratulate Mrs. Gaitzenauer
We congratulate Linda Wilhelm (Vienna University, WasserCluster Lunz) for the Award for the best PhD presentation at Science day at Vienna University (Ecology center).
http://derstandard.at/1331207254964/Science-Day-Von-Archaeen-Listerien-und-Pfuetzen-im-Labor
Aquatic researcher Chistine Sindelar (WasserCluster Lunz, Vienna University) reviews spiral streams.
Thomas Hein visitited several academic institutions and one field station in East China. (read more...)
Nina Welti started in 2006 at the WCL and worked on CANFLOOD and ProFor, with an emphasis on nitrogen cycling in restored freshwater ecosystems.
Iris Baart received the Reinhard Liepolt award of the Austrian Committee Danube Research of the International Association for Danube Research.