Department of Environmental Sciences

47th Krka Prizes ceremony

We are happy to inform you that our fellow Matic Bergant received the Krka prize!

Best Poster Award at 5th MS Food Day

Anja Mahne Opatić, ISO-FOOD PhD fellow, received the Best Poster Award for her presentation entitled "A preliminary traceability model for tomato using analysis of stable isotopes, elemental content and chemical markers" at the 5th MS Food DAY, in Bologna, 11-13 October, 2017.

Project APPLAUSE Approved to be Granted by the EU Commission Through the Urban Initiative Actions

Based on competences of Dr. Lapanje and Dr. Rijavec, the Department is a partner in recently founded project ApPLAuSE (Alien PLAnt SpEcies) - from harmful to useful with citizens' led activities, lead by the City of Ljubljana. The Department tasks are focused in development of microbial technologies to obtain valuable chemical products from the IAPS.

GMA Expert Group Meeting

GMA Expert Group Meeting will be held at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, from November 21st to November 22nd, 2017. 

Registration for the event is now open.

MercOx Kick-off meeting

MercOx project - Traceability of oxidised mercury -  will launch next week. Registration for the event is now open.

ISO-FOOD Summer School in “Elemental Speciation in Food”

The school was organized on 25-27 of September 2017. 

7th International k0-Users' Workshop, Montreal, 3-8 September, 2017

Prof. dr. Borut Smodiš, dr. Radojko Jaćimović, and Lojze Gačnik attended the 7th International k0-Users' workshop, where the newest developments in k0 neutron activation analysis (k0-NAA) and related fields were presented.

Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School

Check out opportunities to carry out postgraduate studies.

Collaboration with the Port of Koper

Contribution to long-term safe business development of the port.

Risks of extreme weather events

Potential of reducing consequences of extreme weather events by means of spatial planning.

Start of new service contract for the European Commission

Jožef Stefan Institute, TEA SISTEMI and IEI will provide assessment of national transposition and implementation of the EURATOM drinking water directive 2013/51/Euratom for the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy. The project is coordinated by the Department of Environmental Sciences and will last 18 months.

ISOSCAPE Summer School at Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele All'adige, Italy, 1-4 August, 2017

Doris Potočnik and Bor Krajnc attended the workshop “Isoscape summer school” which was held in Fundazione Edmund Mach di San Michele all'Adige iin Italy, from 1^st to 4^th August, 2017. The main topic of workshop was GIS modelling using the data of stable isotope ratio of light elements.

TEMA 16, 16th International Symposium of Trace elements in man and animals

Anja Stajnko and Janja Snoj Tratnik attended the 16th International Symposium of Trace Elements in Man and Animals (TEMA 16) which was held in St. Petersburg, Russia from 26^th to 29^th June 2017 and was joined for the first time with the International Society for Trace Element Research in Humans (ISTERH 2017) and Nordic Trace Element Society (NTES 2017).

Mercury conference, Mercury as a Global Pollutant – ICMGP2017

Prof. Dr. Milena Horvat, Dr. David Kocman, Vesna Fajon and Majda Pavlin attended the 13^th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant that was organized in Providence (Rhode Island, USA) between 16^th – 21^st July, 2017.