The Masters day of Natural Sciences

Master students at the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Earth Sciences will present their masters projects.
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Agenda
12:45: Opening of the Masters day of Natural Sciences in room 132

Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, Professor and the head of the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir, Professor head of the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences

13:00 – 15:30 Masters lectures in rooms 130, 131 and 132 from 13-16

 

Room 132
Geography / Tourism Studies / Environment and Natural Resources

13:00 Shauna Laurel Jones
Environment and Natural Resources
Feathered Majesty in the Grainfields? Conflict, Conservation, and the Whooper Swan in Iceland
Advisor: Karl Benediktsson, Professor

13:30 Jón Smári Jónsson
Environment and Natural Resources
Responsibilities of Municipalities Issuing Permits for Projects Subjected to the Environmental Impact Assessment, 2006-2016
Advisor: Þorbjörg K Kjartansdóttir, Adjunct Lecturer

14:00 Þórhildur Heimisdóttir
Geography
Sublime volcanoes: Tourists experiences of volcanic risk on the Laugavegur hiking trail.
Advisor: Guðrún Gísladóttir, Professor

14:30 Pétur Smári Tafjord
Environment and Natural Resources
Tourism and Reykjavik's city center: Is the city center for everyone?
Advisor: Katrín Anna Lund, Professor

15:00 Danielle Elizabeth Beauchemin
Environment and Natural Resources
Distribution and Management of Heracleum species in Reykjavík, Iceland
Advisor: Mariana Lucia Tamayo, Assistant Professor

 

 

Room 131
Biology / Environment and Natural Resources

13:00 Þórdís Björt Sigþórsdóttir
Environment and Natural Resources
Environmental Impact Auditing: Are wetland reclamation efforts as a mitigation measure delivering acceptable outcomes?
Advisor: Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir, Professor

13:30 Dagný Ásta Rúnarsdóttir
Biology
Gene expression and rescue of wing morphology defects in Drosophila melanogaster
Advisor: Arnar Pálsson, Associate Professor

14:00 Katrín Björnsdóttir
Biology
Decomposition responses to climate warming and sheep grazing in the high and sub-Arctic
Advisor: Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Professor

14:30 Petra Landmark Guðmundsdóttir
Biology
Fungal structure and composition in liverwort-based biocrust
Advisor: Ólafur Sigmar Andrésson, Professor

15:00 Edite Fiskovica
Environment and Natural Resources
Monitoring mating behaviour of Large Benthic Arctic charr (Salvelinus Alpinus) in Thingvallavatn in a context of changing climate and increased anthropogenic activity.
Advisor: Kalina Hristova Kapralova, Post Doc

Room 130
Geology / Geophysics / Earth Sciences

13:00 Rebecca Anne Robinson
Geophysics
Modeling the Flow Dynamics of the Langjökull Ice Cap, Iceland
Advisor: Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir, Professor

13:30 Kennedy Mativo Kamunya
Geology
δD and δ18O systematics in geothermal fluids, Olkaria Geothermal system, Kenya
Advisor: Andri Stefánsson, Professor

14:00 Addison Helen Rice
Earth Sciences
Stable Isotope Sclerochronology of Melanopsis (Gastropoda) Shells: Inferring Late Pleistocene Seasonality in the Upper Jordan River Valley
Advisor: Steffen Miscke, Professor