A lecture on Ecological Economics
The global recession as an opportunity
24.8.2009
Dr. Robert Costanza gives a public lecture at the University of Iceland, August 26th in Askja room 132, at 4 pm. The title of his talk is "Using the global
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Delivery of scientific data
20.6.2017
IMO has received a shipment of scientific data from Dr. Richard S. Williams, Jr., geologist, which will benefit research in various fields of natural sciences in Iceland. Dr. Oddur Sigurðsson geologist
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a CV by e-mail, while using the e-mail heading: PHD-FMI-HENVI, to kirjaamo@fmi.fi, and c.c. to adriaan.perrels@fmi.fi and kaisa.korhonen@helsinki.fi. The deadline for applications is 23-5-2011 at 15:45 UTC.
Further inquiries:
HENVI: Dr. Kaisa Korhonen, research co-ordinator, kaisa.korhonen@helsinki.fi + 358 400 624 289
FMI: Dr. Adriaan Perrels, research professor, adriaan.perrels@fmi.fi, +358 50
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on human health and the environment.A team of scientists led
by Dr Melissa Anne Pfeffer at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, with partners
from 16 international institutions, collated all ground-based measurements of
the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption cloud. The study recommends that a diversity
of methods used to measure eruption clouds continue to be improved upon, and
that additional
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Lecture on abrupt changes in summer sea ice extent
27.8.2009
Friday 28th August Dr. Bruno Tremblay gives a lecture on abrupt changes in summer sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean at IMO's headquarters in Reykjavík.
Abstract
The year 2007 marked a record
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system. This description is compiled by Dr. Freysteinn Sigmundsson at the University of Iceland.
The eruption is located on about 2 km wide pass of ice-free land between Eyjafjallajökull and the neighbouring Katla volcano with its overlying Mýrdalsjökull ice cap. Katla volcano is known for powerful subglacial phreatomagmatic eruptions producing basaltic tephra layers with volumes ranging from
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