12 October 2011
Official visit from the China Univeristy of Geosciences in Beijing
Wednesday the 12th of October the UNU-GTP was honored by the visit of a delegation from the China University of Geosciences in Beijing (CUGB) and Dr. Su
Ge, Ambassador of China in Iceland. The purpose of the visit was to establish ties between CUGB on one hand and the UNU-GTP, the University of Iceland, Iceland GeoSurvey and other
Icelandic geothermal entities on the other. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Mr. Wang Hongbing, Chairman of the CUGB University Council, and Dr. Ingvar B. Fridleifsson, Director
of the UNU-GTP on the willingness of the two sides to collaborate on geothermal research and training in the future.
4 October 2011
New group of fellows has arrived in Iceland
The 14th cohort of fellows has arrived in Iceland for the 6 months training programme.
1 October 2011
Graduation of UNU-LRT 2011 fellows
On 29 September eight fellows graduated from the UNU-LRT six-month training programme. The graduated
fellows are from Ethiopia (1), Ghana (2), Mongolia (2), Niger (1) and Uganda (2), three women and five men. At the graduation ceremony the Minister
for the Environment, Mrs. Svandís Svavarsdóttir, addressed the fellows and handed out the certificates. The 2011 fellows graduated from two specialized lines: Land Degradation Assessment/Land Restoration, and Sustainable Land
Management.
23 September 2011
Short Course on Geothermal Development and Geothermal Wells
UNU-GTP and LaGeo will be hosting a "Short Course on Geothermal Development and Geothermal Wells" in El Salvador March 11-17 2012. The course is tentatively planned as a one week course with
lectures and exercises.
Participation in the short course is by invitation only. It is mainly aimed at professionals from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean with diploma or a degree in earth sciences and
engineering, who have been actively involved in geothermal development in their home country, or are potential candidates for that in the near future.
Click here for preliminary progamme and contact information.
21 September 2011
Fellows in the 2011 training programme present their individual project
On 19 September the fellows in
this year’s six-month training course presented their individual project work in an open seminar at the Agricultural University of Iceland. The
project work includes writing a comprehensive report and giving an oral presentation. The fellows choose a subject for the project that is of their
interest and is related to degradation and restoration challenges in their home countries.
5 September 2011
Annual Visiting Lecturer at the UNU-GTP 2011
This year, the annual UNU Visiting Lecturer was Dr. Ernst Huenges, who leads the International Geothermal Research Centre at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum
(GFZ). Dr. Huenges gave a series of lectures on Enhanced Geothermal Systems.
Dr. Huenges is chair of an interdisciplinary working group with engineers and geoscientists and head of the petrophysical laboratories at the GFZ. He has been involved in a number of
scientific deep drilling projects and geothermal projects. He is a contributing author of the IPCC special report on renewable energies and in 2010, he edited a book on Geothermal Energy
Systems.