21 December 2011
Season´s greetings
Dear Friends of UNU-LRT.
Another good year for the UNU-Land Restoration Training Programme has come to an end. We send our best wishes for the festive season ahead and many thanks for the acceptance and interest the Programme has received in 2011.
Happy New Year!
Hafdis Hanna Aegisdottir, Berglind Orradottir and Thorbjorg Valdis Kristjansdottir
14 December 2011
MSc theses 2011 now available for download
MSc theses by UNU Fellows Alejandro Rodríguez, Andi Joko Nugroho and Endy Kevin Padilla, who graduated earlier in the year are now available for download on the UNU-GTP website.
The reports are:
Rodríguez, A., 2011: Water-rock interaction of silicic rocks: an esperimental and geochemical modelling study. Report 1, 44 pp.
Nugroho, A.J., 2011: Optimization of electrical power production from high-temperature geothermal fields with respect to silica scaling proplems. Report 2, 49 pp.
Padilla Rivas, E.K., 2011: Transport and precipitation of carbon and sulphur in the Reykjanes geothermal system, Iceland. Report 3, 39 pp.
12 December 2011
Former fellow from Ethiopia studies for a PhD degree
Tigist Araya Gessesse from Ethiopia participated in the six-month training course of the
Land Restoration Training Programme in 2009. She has an MSc degree in Tropical Land Resources Management and has worked as lecturer at Mekelle University in Northern Ethiopia from 2006.
Two months ago, Tigist started a PhD study at the Center for Development Research /Zentrum fur Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources
Management, University of Bonn in Germany. Her research topic is: Dynamics of different soil organic carbon fractions under various land use and management options in Ethiopia. This topic is related
to Tigist‘s individual project work that she worked on in Iceland titled Assessment of the impact of different regevegation methods on soil
carbon stocks in Iceland
The UNU-LRT team wishes Tigist
all the best for her PhD studies.
8 December 2011
UNU-LRT on Facebook
The United Nations University Land Restoration Training Programme (UNU-LRT) is now on Facebook! On Facebook, we will keep you up to date with what is going on at UNU-LRT, news about new and
former fellows, what is happening in land restoration in Iceland and international stories on environmental issues we think are worth sharing. Please visit the UNU-LRT Facebook page and "like" it to follow our work.
25 November 2011
Documentary about the UNU-GTP on YouTube
In June, the UNU-GTP and the UNU Media Centre signed a Memorandum of Agreement on a 10 minute documentary on geothermal training in Iceland. Two personnel from the Media Centre came to Iceland in
July to record various activities. In addition to portraying geothermal in Iceland and the activities of the UNU-GTP, the documentary focuses to some extent on the activities of Anna Mwangi, a
geophysics Fellow from Kenya.
22 November 2011
Short Course on Geothermal Exploration and Development in El Salvador
The UNU-GTP and the Organization of American States (OAS) held a short course on geothermal exploration and development in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, November 7-12, in
cooperation with LaGeo S.A. de C.V. The course is a part of the Geothermal Training Programme‘s series of tailor-made short courses that answers a growing need for geothermal
capacity building beyond the financial means of the programme. The short course was brought about at the intitiative of the OAS in order to support geothermal development in
Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, and the financing also came from the OAS. Participants came from Colombia (3), Ecuador (3), Peru (3), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), and El Salvador
(3).