Department of Environmental Sciences
The Department of Environmental Sciences encompasses a broad range of research activities, diverse and varied as the environment itself.
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HBM4EU Training 2018
The 1st training school will be orginised in June, 18th – 22nd in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Radiological monitoring of the Krško Nuclear Power Plant in 2017
Report, summarizing results of the radiological monitoring of the Krško NPP in 2017 is available. The estimated sum of all radiation contributions from the Krško NPP to the member of the public at the fence perimeter is 0.006 % of the characteristic unavoidable natural background radiation.
Awards at 2018 IPSSC conference
Two of the IPSSC 2018 conference awards were received by students working at O-2: Tjaša Gornik and Staša Hamzić Gregorčič
Radio broadcast on the use of stable isotopes to detect food frauds
Radio broadcast “Podobe znanja” hosted prof. dr. Nives Ogrinc on 25th of May 2018. The show was broadcasted at the national Slovenian radio station: Radio ARS.
PhD fellowship available
The Universitat Rovira i Virgili is offering a PhD Fellowship position in the field of Nanoscience, Materials and Chemical Engineering
O2 successfully passed external audit of its accredited methods by Slovenian Accreditation body
By issuing Annex to the accreditation certificate LP-090, our department successfully passed external audit of its four methods accredited according to SIST EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005
Open day at O2
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First videos developed within MEET-CINCH project
We are thrilled to announce that first set of videos about determination of uranium in water are available at videolectures.net
O2 human biomonitoring team in Prekmurje
RTV SLO TV crew was following activities carried out in Prekmurje
New EU Patent at O2
Process for obtaining health - and environment acceptable construction materials from the soil containing water soluble compounds of heavy metals : EP 3131688 (B1), 2018-01-24. Munich: European Patent Office
O2 in the "Good morning" show
Is use of aluminium foil safe?
Letter to the Editor, Food Chemistry
Radmila Milačič and Janez Ščančar. Comment on recent article speciation of Cr in bread and breakfast cereals, published in Food Chemistry, (2017) 129, 1839–1843 by Mathebula, M. W., Mandiwana, K., & Panichev, N. Food Chemistry 254 (2018) 78–79.
Early Stage Researcher positions available
14 positions in the field of ”Neurological Exposome” in the EU- funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) NEUROSOME available
Involvement of the DNA structure in the interspecies gene transfer published in Scientific Reports
Researchers from the Laboratory for Bioanalytics assit. prof. Aleš Lapanje at Department of Environmental Sciences and dr. Jan Zrimec, currently a postdoc at Chalmers University, Sweden, showed among the first that structural properties of DNA molecules are among the most important features responsible for efficient interspecies transfer of mobile DNA.
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The Department of Environmental Sciences encompasses a broad range of research activities, diverse and varied as the environment itself.
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They are multidisciplinary, from different natural sciences to social sciences, in particular chemical, physical, geological and biological, which define our environment, society and human activities.
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With our research we would like to clarify the relationship between natural processes and human activities, and the influence of these activities on human health and the environment
