24 April 2012
Fellows visit SCSI headquarters
Last week the 2012 UNU-LRT fellows visited the headquarters of the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland (SCSI) in Gunnarsholt. The fellows were told about the history of SCSI and shown some of the facilities at the headquarters.
14 April 2012
New group of UNU-LRT fellows
Fellows attending this year’s six-month training programme have arrived. This is the third group of fellows attending the six-month training since the Land Restoration Training programme became a UNU programme in 2010.
12 April 2012
MSc defence by Sylvia Joan Malimo and Jose Roberto Estevez Salas
Two UNU-GTP MSc defences will be held this week.
On Tuesday the 17th of April at 15:00 in room 132 in Askja at the University of Iceland, Sylvia Joan Malimo will defend her Master thesis, titled: "Aquifer fluid
modeling and assessment of minerals-gas-liquid equilibria in the Námafjall geothermal system, NE-Iceland".
On Wednesday the 18th of april at 15:00 in room 158 in VR2 at the University of Iceland, Jose Roberto Estevez Salas will defend his Master thesis, titled: "Geothermal Power Plant Projects in Central America: Technical and Financial Feasibility Model Assessment."
28 March 2012
MSc defence by Uwera Rutagarama
UNU-GTP Fellow Uwera Rutagarama from Rwanda defended her thesis entitled “The role of well testing in geothermal resource assessment” on Tuesday the 27th of March. The defence was
held at the University of Iceland in Askja. Supervisors on the project were Gylfi Páll Hersir at ISOR, Páll Jónsson at ISOR and Sigrún Hreinsdóttir at
UI. The external examiner was Grímur Björnsson at Reykjavík Geothermal.
16 March 2012
UNU-FTP to hold course in the Caribbean on Project Cycle Management
This week, collaborators from the UNU-FTP, The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism, and the University of Belize, and the University of Akureyri met in Iceland to plan a short course on Project Cycle Management to be held in the Caribbean.
15 March 2012
Lectures by Dr. Ernst Huenges available online
The UNU-GTP has published the lectures by the visiting lecturer of the programme in 2011 Dr. Ernst Hunges.
The lectures:
Reservoir characterization and geothermal exploration
Geothermal Drilling
Engineering geothermal reservoirs
Energetic use of geothermal reservoirs
Economics and environmental issues
have been published in one publication as "Lectures on Enhanced Geothermal Systems" and are now available for download and printing on our website under Publications.