Dr. Nele Markert and Dr. Christian Schürings were awarded the Schwörbel-Benndorf Young Researcher Prize of the German Society of Limnology (DGL) on 19 September, while Julian Enss received the Poster Prize 2024.

Early 2024, the European Parliament will take a final vote on the ‘Nature Restoration Law’ (NRL), a globally unique but hotly debated regulation that aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss in Europe. An international team of scientists led by the University of Duisburg-Essen investigated the prospects of the new regulation. The article will be published on 15 December in the Science Magazine.

RESIST investigates how water bodies and their habitats respond to multiple stresses. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and runs for four years with a funding volume of 12.3 million euros.

MERLIN seeks new, widely applicable solutions for restoring the functions of freshwater ecosystems, for example to improve flood retention and store carbon dioxide. The project involves 48 partners from across Europe, including universities, research institutes, nature conservation organizations, and stakeholders from business, government, and municipalities.

With deep regret we say farewell to Prof. Dr. Helmut Schuhmacher, who held the Chair of Hydrobiology at the University of Duisburg-Essen and its predecessor institutions from 1982 to 2005.

The MERLIN project is offering a monthy webinar-series on (freshwater) restoration-related topics, which are open and free for anyone to join.

The ExStream experiment and the scientists of the CRC - RESIST at the Boye river in a report by WDR "Lokalzeit Ruhr"

The platform serves to provide online calculation tools for determining the ecological quality of water bodies and is operated by Aquatic Ecology on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency. At the moment the platform is only available in German, but other languages are possible and might come in the near future.