Newsarchive - Biger in the News
Focused on sediment restoration and sustainable sediment management across the Danube, DANSER aims to develop and scale innovative solutions. Our colleague Ronald Pöppl presents our role at the Upper Danube Demosite for the DANSER project.
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
A new Open Access article was recently published in Science of the Total Environment: The effect of ship-induced wave trains on periphytic algal communities in the littoral zone of a large regulated river (River Danube, Austria), by Elisabeth Bondar-Kunze, Anna-Lisa Dittrich, Philipp Gmeiner, Marcel Liedermann, Thomas Hein
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.
Long Night of Research (Lange Nacht der Forschung)
The Institute for Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management participated in Europe’s most significant research dissemination event, the Long Night of Research (Lange Nacht der Forschung), on Friday, 24 May 2024, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. In total, the event attracted around 10,000 interested visitors in Vienna.
Our research station was located at the Türkenschanze (Peter -Jordan-Strasse 82, 1190 Vienna). Visitors were able to explore fascinating pioneering research and developments from the CDL MERI and LIFE-Boat4Sturgeon projects. Individually tagged and named sturgeons could be observed passing a PIT-Antenna in a large round tank and live charophytes, filamentous algae from a nearby park, could be experienced under the microscope with further explanantions given by lovely SEM images of diatom algae and silica structures of the cells using 3D models of diatoms.
Lecture „Ecology of Algae“
Our exciting course, Ecology of Algae, is organized by members of the BIGER working group. Feel the joy and fun of our BOKU students while they study the wonderful world of algae.
