Dear member,
Please find attached the third circular of the AIL2026 conference, where you will find important information regarding the conference that will take place in Bilbao on June 22, including instructions for presenters and the full programme.We would also like to remind you that registration remains open. Kind regards, AIL2026 Organizing Committee
P.S.: Apologies for any duplicate emails.
We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for special session proposals for the 23rd Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL 2026), to be held in Bilbao from June 22 to 26, 2026. We encourage you to submit proposals by following the simple tips outlined in the attached document. You will also find the relevant information included in the First Circular attached. We look forward to your contribution!
Dear fellow ecologists,
We are pleased to report the resolution of the combined call for research projects for researchers in the early stages of their scientific career (ECR) in 2025 from the Iberian Society of Ecology (SIBECOL), the Spanish Society of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET) and the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL).
This multiple call, published on March 15, 2025, was open to research projects on any topic and ecosystem within Ecology (theoretical, terrestrial, freshwater or marine). This call was open to any regular member or student of SIBECOL, AEET, AIL, SPECO or SEEEE and the objective was to try to support both researchers in their initial stages of their scientific career and those in somewhat more advanced stages, thus increasing the possibilities of financing their scientific projects.
The resolution of each of the calls is presented below:
Research projects SIBECOL:
The following projects have been selected as beneficiaries for each of the categories:
Project entitled: “Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Sexual Size and Colour Dimorphism in Island Birds”. IP: Ana Margarida Vitorino Leitão, BIOPOLIS / CIBIO Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão (SPECO member)
Project entitled: “Microbial Impact on the Chemical Fluxes Associated with Coastal Groundwater. (MicroFlux)”. IP: Nestor Arandia Gorostidi, Institut de Ciències del Mar - CSIC (SIBECOL member)
Research projects AEET:
Please be advised that, in order to guarantee the total impartiality of the evaluations and to avoid any bias, the reviews of the project reports have been carried out in a double-blind system in this call for proposals. In other words, the projects have been sent to the reviewers in an anonymized format, so that the reviewers have no knowledge of the identity of the applicant or the research group to which they belong. The applicant's CV has been evaluated solely to confirm compliance with the requirements of each category. It has been reviewed initially by the Secretariat of the AEET.
Thus, the following projects have been selected as beneficiaries for each category:
1.-Modality "TAKING THE INITIATIVE"
Beneficiary Projects:
2.-Modality "WINNING INDEPENDENCE"
Beneficiary Projects:
3.-Modality "CONSOLIDATED RESEARCH"
Beneficiary Project:
Research projects AIL:
The research project “Jovenomics: Young Science Driving the Future of Biomonitoring through eDNA and Barcoding“ presented by Nieves López Rodríguez (Universidade de Barcelona) and Alba María Losa Calleja (Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria, ambas socias de AIL.
All the necessary information and documents to apply for any of the two calls can be found in the following links:
SIBECOL resolution: http://sibecol.org/en/sibecol_ecr2025
AIL resolution: LINK call resolution AIL
AEET resolution: https://www.aeet.org/es/convocatorias/proyectosinvestigacion/convocatoria2025.html
Congratulations to all the participants for the high level of the proposals and in particular to the winners!
Dear colleagues,
I hope you are well.
In this link you will find the resolution of the XVI Limnology Research Award. This has been the fifth call of our award with its new annual periodicity, in which the best doctoral thesis defended in 2024 has been selected. We would first like to thank the jury for their hard work in the evaluation process, without which this award would not be possible.
The prize has been awarded to Alberto ALONSO BLANCO for his thesis Functional consequences of biodiversity loss caused by emergent diseases in freshwater ecosystems, defended at the University of the Basque Country under the direction of Dr. Luz Boyero González & Dr. Jaime Bosch Pérez.
Congratulations to Alberto and his directors!
The jury wanted to highlight the very high level of all the theses presented, for which we would like to congratulate all the candidates for maintaining the quality of pre-doctoral research at such high standards.
The jury also decided to award two runners-up prizes to the theses of Diana SANTOS SIMOES GRAÇA, (Universidade de Minho) and Víctor OSORIO ÁLVAREZ (University of Barcelona).
Congratulations to both of you and to your directors!
A big hug,
Romina Álvarez Troncoso
Secretary of the Iberian Association of Limnology
Dear Colleagues,
In this link you will find the call for the XVI Limnology Research Award for the best doctoral thesis defended in 2024.
This will be the fifth call of the award in its new annual periodicity, whose change aims, as we reported in previous calls, to facilitate the evaluation procedures and improve the adjustment with the biennial calls of the EFFS awards.
The deadline for submission of documentation is 10 January 2025, but we encourage you to send your applications as soon as possible.
Romina Álvarez Troncoso
Secretaria de la Asociación Ibérica de Limnología
www.limnetica.net