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• Accurately tracking how plastic biodegrades
  

  Modern agriculture uses a lot of plastic, especially in the form of mulch film that farmers use to cover field soils. This keeps the soils moist for crops, suppresses weeds and promotes crop growth. However, it is usually very time-​consuming and costly for farmers to collect and dispose of conventi more

• Perfluorinated Chemicals: Pollution is underestimated
  

  Per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) can have harmful effects on human health and the environment. They are still used in numerous everyday products. Together with an international team of researchers, scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon investigated water samples from German and Chinese more

• Microplastics: A Trojan Horse for Metals
  

  The fact that microplastics can accumulate organic pollutants from the environment and transport them has been known for some time. What is new, however, is that metals can also be transported in this manner. In addition, the smaller the particles, the greater the metal accumulation on the plastic. more

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Ocean Acidification:

Ocean acidification is often referred to as ‘the other carbon dioxide problem’. We’re all quite rightly concerned about the effects that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels may have on climate, and the potential consequences of climate change are well documented: more frequent instances of extr more

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• DIN/ISO Compliant Calibrations
  

  Today Analytical Chemistry is embedded in a strictly regulated environment and it has to be ensured that verifiable and officially authorised methods are used. How can this be achieved in a reproducible and unequivocal way? Here we approach this question with respect to the problem of establishing and interpreting calibrations in Instrumental Analysis. more

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• Dr. Carsten Paul
  

  Carsten Paul studied chemistry (focus ­environmental chemistry)  at Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena from 2004 to 2008. After a short spell at the Scripps Institute for Oceano­graphy (La Jolla/CA, USA) he completed his doctorate on a scholarship from the Jena School for Microbial Communicati more

• Prof. Dr. Ralf Zimmermann
  

  Ralf Zimmermann, born in 1963, received his doctorate in 1995 from the TU Munich/Weihenstephan in chemistry und from 1997 on headed the department “Environmental Chemistry and Process Analytics” at the BIfA (Bavarian Institute of Applied Environmental Science and Technology) and “Analytical Laser Ma more

• Prof. Dr. Gesine Witt
  

  Gesine Witt studied technical and analytical chemistry at the University of Greifswald before completing her doctoral studies and her habilitation at the University of Rostock. Her work as a research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was decisive in shaping more