Jürg BloeschDr. Jürg Bloesch is a retired senior scientist and a member of the International Association for Danube Research (IAD) for which he served as National Representative (1995-1998), President (1998-2004), Editor of Danube News (2006-2012) and mandatary or sturgeon conservation, hydropower and navigation in the Danube River. Educated as limnologist (hydrobiologist) at ETH Zürich he worked at Eawag, Dübendorf (the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) from 1970 till 2005 as research scientist and consultant (e.g. in Estonia, North-Macedonia, Romania and Paraguay). Key activities focused on lakes (sedimentation, sediment traps, eutrophication, pelagic food web), rivers (benthos, fish), river restoration (hydromorphology), and river basin management. He published some 140 scientific papers and reports. As active member of 9 national and international professional associations and NGOs, he was and still is dedicated to environmental protection (water protection, in particular) and nature conservation by bridging the gap between basic and applied science. Read More Read Less