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Nadja Neumann

Girls' Day at IGB

Today, Girls' Day took place in presence again, and not digitally. For 15 girls, this also felt like real water research work.

Girls' Day at IGB 2022. | Photo: Nadja Neumann

The fact that drones and remote sensing in general are used to explore water bodies was new to the Girls' Day participants. Most of them had also never piloted a drone themselves. Today they had the opportunity to do so in the lecture hall with Hauke Dämpfling. They also learned from Anna Lena Kronsbein which factors can control the degradation of pharmaceuticals in water and what role mussels play in this. Afterwards, the participants took water samples from experimental cylinders and analysed them. Three girls from Frankfurt (Oder) were particularly fond of remembering what sturgeon look like. They planned to look out for them in the river or be part of a future fish stocking in the Oder.