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I just registered for the symposium "Restoration of eutrophic lakes: Current practices and future challenges". This will be held 4.-6. June 2018 in Lahti, Finland. Lahti-city lies on the shore of the lake Vesijärvi (= Waterlake, sometimes one doubts on the ability of the Finns to come up with original names for things), one of the most closely studied lakes in Finland. After suffering from heavy eutrofication some 40 years ago it now is very well recovered. A fine place for this symposium indeed. Take a look at the short history of the lake on the video "The story of a lucky Lake", a vide...

Just followed a webinar from Zeiss: Basics and Significant Applications of 3D X-ray microscopy (XRM). What a wonderful world of excellent 3-dimensional pictures!! What a fine details! No staining needed. No dissecting. And still you get really detailed, clear 3-dimensional pictures. Bubbling with ideas what one could do with this technology and plankton... Take a look: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/local/campaign/what-is-x-ray-microscopy.html#whitepaper Picture from https://www.zeiss.com/content/dam/Microscopy/us/img/Content%20Images/application/XRM/3d-x-ray-microscopy-101...