TerraChem collected samples of terrestrial wildlife and soil and complemented this with metabarcoding to understand how these chemicals move through food chains and identify damage to species richness. 

TerraChem team members present a new method for chemical risk assessment that helps predict the effects of chemical pollution to ecosystems.

A team led by the University of Tübingen used a new AI tool to improve testing of bioaccumulation in fish. Results were published with TerraChem co-funding.

We’ve reached an important milestone: we’re halfway through the TerraChem Project. Thank you to everyone contributing their expertise and passion to make this possible!

Our partners Universiteit Leiden are hiring for two positions for TerraChem. A Postdoc position on functional diversity and ecosystem services and a research support staff member.

On October 16th TerraChem organised an outreach day in the museum of Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Visitors of the museum could join various presentation sessions in the interactive LiveScience exhibit.

Submit an abstract to our Session on Terrestrial Biodiversity and Chemical Pollution for the SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting in Maastricht: deadline 26th November!

Paola Movalli published a popular scientific about TerraChem on Nature Today. In the article she covers the aim and approach of TerraChem, case studies for WP1 and objectives of the other work packages.

UBA published an overview article in the online membership magazine of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) Division of Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology. The article provides an overview of the project, preliminary results and an outlook to October 2026 when the project finishes.