Entries by Sonja Bamberger

MoFA excursion to Scharnstein 2026

Dear friends of malacology! On 18. September 2026, this year’s MoFA excursion will take us to Scharnstein in the Almtal valley, Upper Austria. We will visit the nature trail dedicated to native snails (‘Schneckenweg’), which opened last year, and explore the surrounding area. Organised jointly by MoFA and ZooBot, this excursion is of interest to […]

Arianta 13 – call for papers

Dear friends of malacology, the next edition of our scientific journal, ARIANTA 13, is in preparation! We have already received a number of manuscript submissions, and the editorial team is still accepting further submissions until the end of August 2026.  

Day of biodiversity in July 2026

Dear MoFA members and friends of malacology! On 11. July 2026, the annual Day of Biodiversity in Tyrol will take place in the Ötztal valley, just as it was in 2007. During the Day of Biodiversity in 2007, not a single mollusc species was recorded due to a lack of local malacologists – a situation […]

Merry Christmas

Dear MoFA members, dear friends of malacology, in 2025, we look back on another successful year, including a landscape maintenance campaign in Bad Fischau-Brunn (in cooperation with the  Landschaftspflegeverein Thermenlinie) to benefit the endemic Austrian heath snail Helicopsis austriaca (see report in German), a MoFA excursion to the Anninger near Mödling, a very successful 4th […]

Call for applications

The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, is seeking to fill as soon as possible the following position in the Zoology Department, Section Malacology in Görlitz (Germany): Technical Assistant (m/f/d) Employment: part-time (50% / 20 hours per week) Contract type: initially limited to 2 years with the option of becoming permanent Application […]

Arianta 12 just published

Dear MoFA members, dear friends of malacology! The latest issue of our scientific journal ARIANTA has just been published online – ARIANTA 12. We are pleased to cover a diverse mix of exciting malacological topics in this brand-new issue. In addition to a short review and abstracts from the 4th MoFA conference 2025, it contains […]

CORE (Collection Research) grant 2026

The CORE program invites applications of scientists for short term visits to study the globally and regionally important biological and paleontological collections of the Oberösterreichische Landes-Kultur GmbH (OÖLKG) in Linz, Austria. The program aims at further enhancing the institution’s role as a center of collection-based biodiversity research (e.g. taxonomy, phylogenetics etc.). Application deadlines: 31 December […]