Explore sustainability and resilience in remote island communities at the ISLAs Summer School in Iceland’s Westfjords, 28th June–6th July 2025. Combining academic study with real-world experiences, this programme examines how communities adapt to environmental and socio-economic transitions.
Explore and share your land use preferences in Iceland’s central highlands with this interactive mapping tool, developed for the EU Horizon 2020 PHOENIX Project.
A new volcanic eruption began on 10 July 2024 near Fagradalsfjall, merging with lava from previous eruptions and reshaping the landscape just 25 km from Reykjavík. This map, updated 19 July 2024, highlights the new fissures, active crater, and past lava fields.
We are recruiting a Research Fellow in Holistic Environmental/Ecological Innovations with experience in quantitative and qualitative geographic methods Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland
A renewed volcanic eruption started on 3 August 2022 in the north-eastern part of the 2021 eruption site on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland which keeps changing and transforming the landscape in the valley and its surrounding areas as a result.
Student summer research project exploring the history of Þingvellir woodlands.
The Department of Geography and Tourism Studies of the University of Iceland in collaboration with colleagues from the UI Science Institute and Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic is offering an Aurora-supported intensive graduate-level field course on the use of geospatial technologies in hazard research and response in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland. The 3 ECTS course takes place…
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Summer School Programme Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability: The case of Lesvos
Mapping the distribution of birch woodlands in Iceland Between 2010 and 2014 the Icelandic Forest Service (Skógræktin) created an assessment of the distribution of natural birch woodlands in Iceland through an extensive field- and aerial photo survey. Since then, no new assessment of the birch forests in Iceland has been made, although politics and planning…
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Iceland has in recent weeks seen an unprecedented surge in the number of detected cases of Covid-19 since the global pandemic started in early 2020.