Spring 2026 Seminar Series
Fridays at 12:30 - 13:15
Friday seminars of Institute of Earth Sciences and Nordic Volcanological Center
Meeting room: Building of Natural Sciences, Askja - room 367
Everybody is welcome!
Friday lectures are coordinated by Rosemary Philippa Cole (rosiecole@hi.is) and Thomas Edmund Barnaby Winder (tomwinder@hi.is)
23. January: Steffen Mischke and Elma Katrín Örvarsdóttir (IES)
Title: More cups of tea in Tajikistan and Mongolia: lake-sediment studies, geoarchaeology, and a surprise
30. January: Byron Fabian Pilicita Masabanda (PhD student, IES)
Title: Magmatic-hydrothermal fluids associated with a felsic intrusion in the fossil Geitafell Geothermal System (Iceland)
6. February: Colin Nathanael Pennington (Research Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Rock Valley Direct Comparison: Drilling Into the Source
13. February: Joseph Fone (recent PhD graduate / University of Cambridge)
Title: Illuminating the magmatic plumbing system of Askja volcano, Iceland.
20. February: Céline Mandon, IMO Volcanic Gas Specialist
Title: Volcano Waka Lab: Sailing across the Vanuatu arc to estimate volcanic emissions
27. February: Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (Research Professor, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland)
Title: Rapid CO2 mineralization by its co-injection with recirculating water in the subsurface
6. March: Franck Latallerie, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Reykjavík
Title: New insights into the cooling of the oceanic lithosphere from surface-wave tomographic inferences
22. March: Lovísa Birgisdóttir (independent researcher, Reykjavík, Iceland)
Title: The development of the oceanic currents in the Iceland Sea (between Iceland, Jan Mayen and Greenland) in the last 550.000 years. Was the Irminger current weak or did it even disappear in this period of time?