Research Centre West Fjords

The Research Centre is home to basic and applied research projects on coastal and marine biota and the utilisation of marine products. Most projects at the centre are conducted with grants from competitive funds and are therefore completed within a set timeframe, often with the involvement of postgraduate students.

The long-term goals are to develop a centre of knowledge and facilities to research the sea around the West Fjords, support the use of scientific data in utilisation of coastal areas, and understand the part marine products play in regional development in Iceland.  

Projects fall into three main categories, which may overlap:

• Ecology in littoral waters and coastal regions
• Applied evolutionary ecology
• Maritime archaeology

Facilities

The centre has focused on developing facilities to conduct field research in marine and coastal areas. The centre owns most general equipment required for biological and archaeological marine research, including a rubber dinghy, multibeam echosounder, a remote operated underwater vechile, a CTD, and two systems of acoustic sensor buoys to monitor the movements of tagged specimens in the sea.

The centre also boasts good general office facilities, a laboratory for primary processing of biological and archaeological specimens, facilities for DNA isolation and electrophoresis, and a good laboratory for working with live fish or other aquatic organisms, including an environmentally controlled tank system.

• Ecology in littoral waters and coastal regions
• Applied evolutionary ecology
• Maritime archaeology

Director

Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir

Director

8989037

gaol [at] hi.is

Staff

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