26 April 2016
UNU-GTP and LaGeo, El Salvador sign a new cooperation agreement
On Monday, 25 April, the UNU-GTP and LaGeo of El Salvador signed an agreement regarding enhanced cooperation in geothermal capacity building for the Latin America and Caribbean region.
22 April 2016
UNEP GGEO expert meeting
UNU-GEST hosted the Final Book Sprint of the Global Gender and Environmental Outlook (GGEO) on 22-26 February 2016 at the University of Iceland, in Reykjavík.
20 April 2016
Fellows visit SCSI HQ and horticultural campus of AUI
Recently the UNU-LRT fellows visited Gunnarsholt, the headquarters of the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland (SCSI) in South Iceland. The Director of SCSI, Mr Sveinn Runolfsson, welcomed the group and presented each fellow with the book Healing the land by Roger Croft, which tells the story of land reclamation and soil conservation in Iceland. Ms Anne Bau, biologist at SCSI, showed the fellows around Gunnarsholt and the facilities there. The fellows will live in Gunnarsholt for two months in the summer or from mid-June to mid-August while they work on their individual research projects.
18 April 2016
The 38th session of the UNU-GTP
The 38th session of the UNU-GTP opened on Tuesday 19th of April.
14 April 2016
UNU-FTP fellow Ricardo Morris completes MSc in Biology at the University of Iceland
Last week, UNU-FTP fellow and scholarship recipient Ricardo Morris of Jamaica successfully completed his Master's of Science at the University of Iceland in marine biology. Mr. Morris was a fellow in the UNU-FTP six month programme in 2010, at which time he specialised in fisheries policy and planning. His thesis was entitled, "Distribution of Queen conch (Strombus gigas) on the Pedro Bank, Jamaica: Descriptive and Predictive distribution models"
13 April 2016
Short Course on Utilization of Low- to Medium Enthalpy Geothermal Resources in Romania
Short Course on Utilization of Low- to Medium Enthalpy Geothermal Resources was held in Oradea, Romania, on April 4-8 in cooperation with the University of Oradea.