Publications

Here we will post about the published science – but not to worry, we will make it fun and easy.

This past summer, Ingibjörg G. Jónsdóttir at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, along with her co-authors Jón Sólmundsson, Peter J. Wright, …

Bottom trawling is harmful to life on the ocean floor. Many people agree with this. But we still need to learn more …

    What are fish nursery grounds? Nursery grounds are places where young fish find food, favourable temperature and protection from predators …

What swims between the algae of the rocky intertidal zone? You can find a very lively ecosystem in the rocky intertidal zones …

  Nursery grounds are habitats mainly used by juvenile (baby) fish. As the name suggests these habitats are like nurseries for fish. …

Have you ever wondered where the flounder found in Iceland has come from? It is well known that alien European flounder has …

Marcos Lagunas and his collaborators from the University of Iceland and the Marine and Freshwater Institute teamed up for a project on …

But what is biodiversity, and why do we need to protect it? „Biodiversity“, a term that we are confronted with every day, …

Have you ever wondered about all the kinds of fish are out there in the deep oceans? Have you ever heard of …

Anja Nickel and her co-authors, Dr. Steven Campana and Dr. Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir, published a paper this past summer in Journal of …

  In the picture above Rakel is drilling a hole in the ice covering lake Garðsvatn in winter time. She collected a …

  Today I get to talk about my own paper!   Last year we published an article where we introduced a method …

  In a recent publication, Theresa Henke and co-authors looked at what anglers think about European flounder (Platichthys flesus). Flounder is an …

  Written with Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir.   At the end of May Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir and her team published an article on …

  In April Sammi Lai and her team published an article about how the amount and variety of food affects young salmon. …

  In April, Camille Leblanc published an article on diversity in Arctic charr populations that live in the caves of lake Mývatn. …