Services

• Project coordination
• Scientific research in aquatic and terrestrial ecotoxicology, molecular ecotoxicology, ecology, limnology, histology, electron microscopy in close cooperation with the Animal Physiological Ecology Department, University of Tuebingen
• Scientific reviews and consulting for industry, government and administration
• education and training, also for children
• arrangement and procurement of complete packages for chemical analyses
• Investigations according to guidline 98/8/EU (Biozidrichtlinie) and REACH in cooperation with the Steinbeis-Transfer Center for Applied and Environmental Chemistry, Reutlingen

Main Topics

• Effects of environmental stressors including xenobiotics (drugs, pesticides, temperature, microplastics) in aquatic and terrestrial organisms
• Ecotoxicological and limnological characterization of freshwater ecosystems
• Effects and side-effects of pesticides in target and non-target organisms
• Ecotoxicological tests with isolated substances or xenobiotic mixtures in laboratory, semi-field and field experiments
• Biomarkers in fish, terrestrial invertebrates (gastropods, isopods, myriapods, annelida) and aquatic invertebrates (gastropods, amphipods) as diagnostic tools in aquatic and terrestrial risk assessment
• Ultrastructural effects resulting from environmental stress in fish and invertebrates
• Mode of action of molluscicides
• Efficiency control in food additives especially for fish (aquaculture, aquaristics)
• Efficiency control of renaturation activities

Project Examples

Ecotoxicology

• 2020-2022 Literature study on effects of trace substances on aquatic organisms in flowing waters and recommendations for effect-based trace substance monitoring. LAWA, Länder funding program "Water, Soil and Waste" 2020.
• 2015-2020 Coordination of the joint project SchussenAktivplus on the efficiency of the 4th treatment stage at wastewater treatment plants.
• 2016-2019 MiWa: Mikroplastik im Wasserkreislauf (BMBF); research partner
• 2015-2020 Effect-Net (MWK Baden-Württemberg); research partner
• 2014-2016 EFF-PHARM (UBA): coordinator of 5 partners and research partner
• 2015-2016 SchussenAktivplus+ (Ministry of the Environment, Baden-Württemberg): coordinator of 5 partners and research partner
• 2012-2015 RiSKWa consortium SchussenAktivplus (BMBF): coordinator of 21 partners and research partner
• 2010-2012 SchussenAktiv (Ministry of the Environment, Baden-Württemberg): coordinator of 11 partners and research partner
• 2000-2003 XehoGamm (UBA); research partner
• 1995-2000 Valimar: (BMBF): coordinator 9 partners and research partner

Ecophysiology

• Efficiency control of new molluscicidal baits; studies on mode of action (private agencies)
• Efficiency control of fish diets or diet additives for protected and endangered species(public authorities)and for aquaristics (private companies)
• Cause analysis: Fish health in Baden-Württemberg