3 October 2008
First graduation from six month training programme
Six LRT fellows who participated in the first full six month training programme graduated on 3 October 2008. They came from Namibia, Uganda and Mongolia.
29 September 2008
MSc defence by Mahnaz Rezvani Khalilabad
UNU-GTP MSc Fellow Mahnaz Rezvani Khalilabad, from Iran, defended her MSc thesis etitled "Characterization of the Hellisheidi-Threngsli CO2 sequestration target
aquifer by tracer testing", on Monday September 29, 2008. The defence was held in Askja, at the University of Iceland. The supervisors on the MSc project were Guðni Axelsson
and Sigurður R. Gíslason, and the external examiner at the defence was Halldór Ármannsson.
19 September 2008
UNU-GTP seminar on geothermal
The annual presentation of the projects of the UNU Fellows will be given in the main lecture room at Orkugardur on Monday September 22nd, 2008, starting at
10:00.
Seminar programme
5 September 2008
UNU-GTP Anniversary Workshop
The 30th annual session of the UNU-GTP opened in April 2008 and marked the 30th anniversary of the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme (UNU-GTP).
In 1979, the first two UNU Fellows, Agnes Reyes and Nelson Bagamasbad from the Philippines, came to Iceland for six month specialized training. The anniversary was celebrated with a two day
Anniversary Workshop at Grand Hotel in Reykjavík, on August 26-27.
29 August 2008
Presentations available for download
Presentations given by this years visiting lecturer Dr. Wang Kun are now available for download in pdf. format from here.
5 August 2008
Annual visiting lecturer at the UNU-GTP
This year, the annual UNU Visiting Lecturer is Wang Kun, Senior Engineer and Deputy Director of the Geothermal Management Department at Tianjin Bureau of Land,
Resources and Real Estate Management (TBLRREM), Tinajin, China.