AIL Member Andrea Bravo is the 2019 ASLO Lindeman Award Recipient

Dear J-AIL members,

It is with great satisfaction that we share with you all that our colleague Andrea Bravo has been awarded by the ASLO RAYMOND L. LINDEMAN AWARD, honoring a young author for an outstanding peer-reviewed, English-language paper in the aquatic sciences for her paper Molecular composition of organic matter controls methylmercury formation in boreal lakes, published in Nature Communications in 2017. 

Quoting ASLO President Michael Pace "The paper by Andrea Bravo and colleagues demonstrates important contrasts in the rates of mercury methylation in lakes and thereby advances understanding of the formation and concentration of this highly toxic form of the metal". You can read here the award announcement. Andrea's work will be presented at the next ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Puerto Rico, February 2019.

Many congratulations, Andrea!

2nd Collaborative European Freshwater Science Project for Young Researchers

Dear friends,

The European Federation of Freshwater Sciences (EFFS) recently announced the 2nd call for collaborative project among early-career researchers across Europe. The Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL) is an active partner of this association and played a key role in funding the current project, as well as the first call and the two JAIL projects (DOMIPEX and AGRHYDOM).

We encourage members of our youngish association to participate, or better, to lead a succesful research proposal to resolve a critical question in the European limnology. Click here to download the call.

Ten simple rules for...

Hi all,

Our colleague Veronica Ferreira came up with a collection of Ten Simple Rules for getting success in the scientific career. Worth reading!

Best, Xavier

Postdoctoral Funding Schemes in Europe

The postdoctoral period is a very important phase in every researcher´s career. It is when the recent PhD must decide whether or not continue in a scientific career - the funding opportunities are critical in this sense. The document we are sharing with of all you provides a wide range of postdoctoral funding schemes in Europe and useful information about scientific career structures after the PhD. Enjoy!

Reference: Science Europe 2016. Postdoctoral Funding Schemes in Europe. Available at www.scienceeurope.org. Date accessed: December 2016