Would you like to complete your BS or MS project with me as a supervisor? Please contact me with an outline of your thesis project idea as well as a short CV indicating your skills and the courses you have completed during your studies. For theses written in Icelandic, please note that you also need to find an Icelandic-speaking supervisor.
Ongoing Master thesis projects: (selection)
Completed Bachelor and Master theses:
Past Bachelor and Master thesis projects can also be found on the University of Iceland’s central repository Skemman. Click here to view theses that I have supervised in the past on Skemman. Here is a selection of recently completed projects:
| An invasive beauty: Perceptions on the Nootka lupine from the capital area residents (Kolbrún Matthíasdóttir, 2023) |
| A Time Series Analysis of Vegetation Succession on Lava Flow Fields at Hekla Volcano: Assessing the Utility of Landsat Data (Alexander Thomas Merrington, 2019) |
| Climate Change and Afforestation Potential in Þingvellir National Park, Iceland (Daniel John Murphy, 2023) |
| Climate change in the Westfjords, Iceland : a local perspective of a global problem (Deirdre Patricia Bannan, 2022) |
| Densification of settlements – effect on wind direction and thermal comfort: A case study from Reykjavík, Iceland (Þétting byggðar – áhrif á vindafar og hitaþægindi. Rannsókn á tveim þéttingarreitum í Reykjavík) (Sigríður Lára Gunnarsdóttir, 2022) |
| Displacement Measurements of Three Slow Moving Landslides at Almenningar, North Iceland: A Feature Tracking Application (Elías Arnar Nínuson, 2023) |
| Environmental and Social Analysis of Soil Salinization in Utah Valley, USA (Fernanda Sofía Arévalo, 2023) |
| Environmental Assessment (EA) Follow-up in Energy Infrastructures: A Comparative Study of Practice in the Netherlands, Iceland, and Denmark (Yulita Muspitasari, 2024) |
| Fishing for Answers: Methodologies to Assess Dredging Impacts on Small-scale Fishing Livelihood (Nadia Viola Angesti, 2024) |
| Geomorphological Mapping of a Paraglacial Slope Instability at the Southeastern Tindfjallajökull Glacier, Iceland (Elías Arnar, 2021) |
| Heavy is the Mountain: the tension between place attachment and the perception of hazards, climate change and place disruption, revealed through virtual walking tours in Patreksfjörður, Iceland (Frances Eleanor Simmons, 2022) |
| How did the falcon cross the ocean? Analyzing how Eleonora’s falcons use seasonal winds and insular stepping-stones to avoid drowning in the Indian Ocean (Meixu Chen, 2024) |
| Monitoring salmonid populations using unmanned aerial vehicles: a case study of Arctic charr in Iceland (Silvia Garcia Martinez, 2019) |
| On the Trail of Adventure: Criteria for Designing Mountain Biking Trails (Árni Magnús Magnusson, 2019) |
| Reindeer in Space (Marteinn Möller, 2021) |
| The effect of input data on the results of a viewshed analysis: A case study from proposed wind farms at Garpdal and Búrfell, Iceland (Áhrif ílagsgagna á niðurstöður sýnileikagreininga. Sýnileikasvið fyrirhugaðra vindmyllugarða ofan Garpdals og Búrfells greint) (Ása Dögg Aðalsteinsdóttir, 2019) |
| The Role and Importance of Trees in Reykjavík, Iceland (Alexis Marie Neukirch, 2019) |
| Uses, Functions, and Values of Home Gardens: a case study on the Greek island of Lesvos (Sarita Mahtani-Williams, 2024) |
| Vulnerability to glacier avalanche hazards: A case study of the Þjórsá floodplain, Southern Iceland (Jasmine Hayes, 2017) |