– By Melanie Münch – As part of the lake-crew within the P-Trap project, one of my jobs is to figure out the long-term effects of iron treatment on the internal phosphorus loading in lakes. This is important because iron has been added to lakes by water managers for a while already as it usually…

Hi, I’m Xingyu and in this blog I want to tell you about my preparation secondment at or better „with“ Eawag, because it was a virtual one. Between the constraints of the pandemic and the legal requisites in Switzerland for researchers, I couldn’t be physically present at Eawag. However, we made the most out of…

– By Melanie Münch – As part of the lake-crew within the P-Trap project I will tell you about my favorite lake Terra Nova in the Netherlands again in this blog post. However, this time we will not look at blue water and nice water lilies, but at some crumbles on a piece of tape….

Hello there! I am Tolulope, ESR 8, hosted at the University of Sevilla, Spain. I am a Soil Scientist and Agronomist. Since I had some experience introducing new fertilizer products and working with small holder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) before starting my PhD, I was also interested in gaining richer experience along this…

Hello there! I am Lordina Eshun, ESR 5, from the University of Manchester, UK. In this blog, I will talk about my secondment at the University of Seville, Spain. After several postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic and visa issues, I finally got the opportunity to travel to Seville, the beautiful city and capital of…

– By Ville Nenonen – This blog post was originally meant to tell my experiences during my secondment at Utrecht University at October 2022. During the secondment, I had the plan to present my work at the Utrecht University and at the Wageningen University. However, due to catching Covid-19, I had to stay most of…

Hi, I’m Rouven and in this blog I report about my second secondment at the research institute eawag by Zurich, Switzerland. Before the stay? The secondment started already way before the actual stay, back home at the university of Vienna. We tried to synthesize vivianite (a phosphate mineral I’m working with) this time not as…

Hi, here is Rouven (ESR10), and in this blog I will tell you a bit about my final secondment at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Wageningen University In October 2022 time has come to start my final secondment – this time in the Netherlands at Wageningen university. The Wageningen university started roughly 100 years ago…

I am very grateful for this experience in the P-TRAP project, I could work together with very interesting people I can now call friends and learned a lot about diffuse source phosphorous transport. On this blog I want to share a snapshot of each chapter of my thesis while I am also searching for the…

The most challenging type of presentation is the short one! Describing your science and what you want to achieve is much easier if you have a lot of time to explain. Bringing it to the point, and more challenging explaining it e.g. to someone who has no clue what you are doing, is the supreme…