The call to join the 4th Collaborative FreshProject “Life in plastic, it's fantastic: unravelling the microalgal community of plastisphere across European lentic systems (PhytoPlastic)”, led by Veronica Nava and Julia Gostyńska, and funded by EFFS-EFYR, is still open. The application deadline has been extended to the 31st July 2022.
The project is aimed at studying the temporal establishment and development of phytobenthos on different plastic polymers over a wide geographical scale to better characterize the interaction of plastics with key organisms of aquatic ecosystems, i.e. microalgae.
The complete project can be found here: https://www.freshwatersciences.eu/public/files/EFYR-EFFSPhytoplasticProject.pdf
What is required to join?
To be able to participate, it is necessary to:
- be a Bachelor student, Master student, PhD student, or early Post‐Doc (PhD completion later than 31st December 2019)
- be already a member/or join one of the limnological societies federated within EFFS (for a list see both pages here)
- have enough time to perform the sampling activities (4 days for 4 sampling seasons) and any other project activity (data analysis, writing, meetings, etc)
- have access to basic limnological equipment (multiparametric probe)
- actively participate in the project
What do you gain from the participation?
- You will be part of a network of young freshwater scientists
- You will increase your knowledge about relevant topics in limnological research (microalgae and microplastics)
- You will enhance your soft-skills
- You will contribute to an international project
- Co-authorship in scientific publications
How to participate?
To participate in the project, please read and fill in the online questionnaire (here) by 31st July 2022.
For further details, see the project website (https://phytoplastic.wixsite.com/my-site) or contact us:
Veronica Nava (veronica.nava@unimib.it)
Julia Gostyńska (julgos@amu.edu.pl)
