Participation on Norwegian Society for Pharmacology and Toxicology – NSFT yearly winter meeting on Beitostølen, combining science and skiing.
Norith spent 3 months in Antarctica studying and sampling Adelie penguins along with collaborator Celine LeBohec. You can find interesting description and great photos here.
Norwegian polar ecotoxicologists on workshop in Shanghai, China.
Final project meeting for AVITOX in Chize, hosted by the Olivier Chastel at CNRS.
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry annual European conference - SETAC - in Nantes, with multiple oral (Randi and Daniel) and poster (Ane and Norith) presentations, workshops and session chairing (Katrine). Polar session on final day hampered by French strike, some platform presenters, audience and session chair had to leave early. Other wice, a very interesting conference!
In September, Sabrina started her PhD with our group. Her PhD project is addressing how dissolved organic matter from land affects energy uptake, allocation in interaction with toxicants in coastal zooplankton. This is a collaboration between researchers form AQUA/IBV and NIVA that are interested in the run off of organic matter form land to sea, and how this affects the coastal zooplankton, in particular in combination with environmental contaminants, focusing on responses such as energy uptake and allocation.
Several of the master students and PhDs had poster presentations of their projects at the Norwegian Environmental Toxicology Symposium - NETS - arranged in October by NIVA in Oslo.
Ane finished her master with great results, showing how Arctic birds breeding in the Kongsfjorden area have low and similar DNA damage, despite very different exposure to organohalogenated chemicals such as PCBs, PBDEs and PFAS.
Randi published her paper on PFAS accumulation in hooded seal and maternal transfer to offspring in ETC, showing that both placental and milk are important transfer pathways from mother to pup.
These were some selected highlights, as the blog is now up and running, we aim for more frequent updates throughout.
Stay tuned!