2 July 2012
UNU-LRT guest lecturer in 2012
This year‘s main international guest lecturer was Dr. Jeffrey Herrick. Dr. Herrick is a renowned soil scientist and a leading scientist in rangeland health issues.
12 June 2012
Soils, Governance and Society Workshop
An interdisciplinary workshop on Soils, Governance and Society was held in Iceland last week.
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.
17 February 2012
Professor Jakob Rhyner, UNU Vice Rector in Europe and Director of UNU-EHS, introduced to UNU-LRT
On 16 February, Professor Jakob Rhyner, Director of UNU Institute of Environment and Human Security and UNU Vice Rector for Europe, visited the UNU programmes in Iceland and attended a board meeting at the UNU Fisheries Training Programme.
2 February 2012
Former fellow defended his PhD dissertation in Uzbekistan
Toshpulat Rajabov, a former LRT fellow from 2009, recently defended his PhD project titled "Spatio-temporal changes of vegetation cover of semi desert along the grazing gradient (in case of Karnabchul)" in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.