Eawag Annual Report 2022

INSTITUTION
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Advocating respectful behaviour
With the respect campaign, Eawag has made its employees
aware that respectful behaviour promotes cooperation.
In addition to posters and flyers, three short
videos also showed in a playful way that you can do
something if you come across sexist or racist acts in
your everyday working life, for example. At the closing
event at the end of September, a performance was
given by an improvisation theatre group. “We wanted
to make people think and trigger discussions,” says
campaign manager Annette Ryser. “I think we succeeded
in that.”
Water research on the boat trip on Lake Greifen
An interested public was able to experience how researchers
at Eawag monitor the lake on an evening
boat trip in summer and another trip in autumn on
Lake Greifen. For example, with an automatic underwater
camera whose images allow conclusions to be
drawn about impending potentially toxic algal blooms.
Later, the participants also took a look underground.
Sediment cores are the history books of our environment,
other researchers explained. They depicted
both the great flood of 1813 and the over-fertilisation
that began in the 1930s.
Katja Schubert, Eawag
Claudia Carle, Eawag
Respect campaign: encouraging employee reflection
Eawag researchers explain why they study plankton.
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Women and girls in science
With the International Day of Women and Girls in Science,
the UNO wants to promote careers of female researchers
– and introduce young generations to female
role models in the field of science. That is why Eawag
published a short video on 11 February 2022 in which
female scientists tell what motivates them. “I became
a researcher because it allows me to pursue my curiosity,”
says PhD student Marie-Sophie Maier. She and
many other women at Eawag have access to numerous
further education opportunities as well as networking
and mentoring activities.
> Women at Eawag: Watch the video
eawag.ch/women
Well-attended exhibition in Gersau
The small cargo ships on Lake Lucerne are called “Nauen”.
13 such ships could be seen at the Nauen meeting
at the beginning of July. This attracted a large number
of visitors, who were able to learn about Eawag’s research
in an exhibition on the Naue “Unterwalden”.
Young and old learned about previous tsunamis on Lake
Lucerne. The visitors were able to explore the amazing
diversity of plankton and algae under the microscope.
And marvel at how fish migration can be tracked with
microchips.
Helmut Bürgmann, Eawag
Numerous visitors learned about Eawag’s research on the
Naue “Unterwalden”.
Women scientists tell us what motivates them.