Bottom trawling is harmful to life on the ocean floor. Many people agree with this. But we still need to learn more about how and why it causes damage. Mason Kenny wanted to better understand the impact of bottom trawling gear on the seafloor. During his Master’s in Environmental and Natural Resources at The […]
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Botnvörpuveiðar eru skaðlegar fyrir lífið á hafsbotninum. Margir eru sammála þessari staðhæfingu. En það er enn margt ólært um hvernig og hvers vegna þær valda skaða. Mason Kenny vildi skilja betur áhrif botnvörpuveiðarfæra á hafsbotninn. Sem hann kannaði nánar í meistaranáminu sínu í Umhverfis og auðlindafræði við Háskóla Íslands. Mason vann í samstarfi
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Today´s spotlight we want to shine on Marina de la Cámara as she is defending her PhD this coming Friday (17.01.2025). A big congratulatory hug from us, you are going to do wonderful! Growing up Marina had a bit of an identity crisis as a kid. She wanted to be a musician, a writer
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Marcos Lagunas and his collaborators from the University of Iceland and the Marine and Freshwater Institute teamed up for a project on the genetics of brown trout. Last year, they published an article where they looked into the genetic structure of different trout populations in Thingvallavatn and Ölfusá. The decline of trout in Thingvallavatn
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Today we are putting Dr. Sammi Lai in the spotlight as she recently defended her PhD and we couldn’t be more proud! You might remember her from the publication feature in June. We covered her paper on the food availability of salmons in Icelandic rivers. End of an era On Friday the 30th of
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While research on Arctic charr (“bleikja”) in Thingvallavatn has been going on for decades (and the earliest studies even going back to the early 1900s!), a lot of knowledge on their behaviour is unknown. This is because getting information on fish behaviour in their natural environment is very hard. It is way easier to
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Today I get to talk about my own paper! Last year we published an article where we introduced a method we developed to detect and monitor Salmonid spawning grounds using a drone and machine learning. Spawning nests are where the fish release their eggs and the eggs develop until the fish hatch. You
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Written with Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir. At the end of May Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir and her team published an article on the diversity of jaw bones in Arctic charr. They looked into the differences in the skull of the Arctic charr morphs in Thingvallavatn. A little bit of background on the Arctic charr
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Meet Sébastien Matlosz, a PhD student at the University of Iceland defending his PhD this Friday! We are very proud of him for (almost) finishing his PhD, so that’s why we are shining a spotlight on him ☺️ From France to Iceland Sébastien was born and raised in France. As a kid, he had
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In April Sammi Lai and her team published an article about how the amount and variety of food affects young salmon. Their study sites were four rivers in Northeast Iceland (see map). They looked into which invertebrates (animals without a backbone) could be found in the rivers and by finding out what young salmon
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