BIodiversity and BioGEochemistry of Riverine landscapes
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A new addition to the team
The BIGER team is delighted to announce our newest team member: Dr Daniel Hayes. He is an expert in freshwater ecology, ecohydrology, ecohydraulics, multiple stressors, river management, biodiversity and ecosystem restoration. We are looking forward to working with him. Welcome Daniel!
Diving into the Danube to bridge Art and Science
Carlos Monleon-Gendall, Artist in Residence of one of the „S+T+ARTS4Water“ projects hosted by the Klima Biennale, was invited to participate in the last sampling campaign of the year, investigating the fish fauna of the Danube River. The artist had a great opportunity to join our CDL MERI team analysing the fish community of different Danube habitats by electro-fishing. Each of us had a wonderful opportunity to be inspired. The bridging of art and science will contribute to more understanding of human interventions and climate change on aquatic habitats to the attention of a wider audience and will be presented in 2025 and during the Klima Biennale 2026.
New Scientific paper
Art and Science together for public awareness of climate change
The artist in residence of one of the „S+T+ARTS4Water“ projects, Carlos Monleon-Gendall with the Local Expert Group of Klima Biennale, visited experts from IHG, BOKU University with several members of our working group. The fruitful discussion between scientists and artists provided inputs for the project “Parliaments of Streams”. Our team presented recent results from different projects (CDL Meri, LB4S and others) and several PhD research topics, aiming to explain the impact of human interventions and climate change on aquatic habitats. The main goal of this cooperation is to speculate and ultimately create new sensibilities, responsibilities, and realities reaching out to the wider public. The cooperation will entangle scientific and artistic languages and underlying concepts.
New Paper
Our latest scientific article from the iconn project in collaboration with Durham University is out! From drylands to river-floodplains, this perspective article contrasts water-mediated connectivity in two ecosystem types, integrating ecology and geomorphology. Read more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eco.2690
Observation.org – biodiversity citizen science and monitoring
Our contribution to global biodiversity was made with some nice pictures of algae from Türkenschanzpark lakes .
We hope that the EU-based platform for biodiversity citizen science and monitoring will develop further with the contributions of our team in the following years as well.
https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/themes/biodiversity/wageningen-biodiversity-challenge-2.htm
https://observation.org/bioblitz/uni-of-nat-resources-and-life-sci-boku-2024/#sg-19
For 2024, we got a reward from the BOKU BIOBLIZ (https://boku.ac.at/boku-biodiversitaetscluster/veranstaltungen) for participating in supplementing biodiversity.
Congratulations, Praise!
Praise AINOMUGISHA successfully defended her MSc thesis with the title: QUANTIFYING RIVER FLOODPLAIN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF THE AUSTRIAN DANUBE AND ITS TWO TRIBUTARIES; TRAISEN AND MORAVA. She is another successful alumna of our international joint degree master program LWM – Limnology and Wetland Management on 26 June 2024.
An important study for the CD Laboratory MERI and several EU projects.
