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This year, the annual UNU Visiting Lecturer is Cornel Ofwona, reservoir engineer at the Geothermal Dvelopment Company (GDC) in Kenya. Cornel is a former Fellow and did his 6 months studies in reservoir engineering at UNU-GTP in 1996. He later returned for a MSc degree at the University of Iceland in 2001 on a scholarship from the UNU-GTP. He graduated with his MSc degree in 2002 and is now one of the leading reservoir engineers at GDC. The lectures take place in Víðgelmir in Orkugarður, Grensásvegur 9, between the 3. - 7. of September, starting at 09:00. Each lecture is about an hour long.

A 13 week customer-designed „Course on Geothermal Technology“, organized by the UNU-GTP in accordance to the requirements of Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), was concluded in Naivasha, Kenya on Friday, July 13.

United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme (UNU-GTP) in Iceland, Geothermal Development Company, Kenya (GDC) and Kenya Electricity Generating Company, Ltd. (KenGen) will be hosting “Course VII on Exploration for Geothermal Resources”, to be held at Lake Bogoria Hotel and at Sopa Lodge, Naivasha, Kenya, October 27 – November 18, 2012.

The UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2011" has been released and is now available for download on-line under publications.

The Fellows' reports from the six month specialized training in 2011 are now on-line on the UNU-GTP website under publications. The release of the UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2011" is expected to be later this month.

On Tuesday the 15th of May at 14:00 in room 131 in Askja at the University of Iceland, Huang Jiachao will defend his MSc thesis, titled: "Assessment and management of sedimentary geothermal resources". Jiachao's supervisor is Guðni Axelsson, head of geophysics and reservoir physics at ISOR (Iceland GeoSurvey). The external examiner is Páll Jónsson physicist at ISOR.