24 October 2014
Graduation of Fellows 2014
The closing ceremony of the 36th annual session of the UNU-GTP was held on October 17, 2014, with 29 UNU Fellows graduating from the six month specialized courses.
6 October 2014
UNU Fellows introduce their final projects
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014, the UNU Fellows of the Six Month Training Programme will introduce their final projects.
25 September 2014
UNU-GTP PhD Fellow presented the 2nd best poster at a conference in Czeck Rep.
Thecla Mutia, a PhD Fellow at the University of Iceland and a UNU-GTP Fellow in 2010, presented a poster on her thesis at the Polar Ecology Conference which is organised by the Centre for Polar Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia.
19 September 2014
MSc defence by Vincent Koech
Vincent Koech, M.Sc. Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iceland will give a lecture on his MSc project on Tuesday 23 September, 2014 at 15:30 in the Main Building, room 220.
9 September 2014
Release of Geothermal Training in Iceland 2013
The UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2013" has been released online and is now available for download on-line under publications.
13 August 2014
Annual Visiting Lecturer at the UNU-GTP 2014
The visiting lecturer of UNU-GTP 2014 is the reservoir engineer Dr. Malcolm Grant from New Zealand.
Dr. Grant holds a doctoral degree in applied mathematics from MIT and has been involved in various research and management projects and has worked as a private consultant since 1994. He has been involved in assessment and development of 76 geothermal fields in 14 countries.
Dr. Grant is among the most prestigious scientists in the field of geothermal reservoir engineering and has published many papers in that field. He is the senior author of the widely used textbook Geothermal Reservoir Engineering.
Dr. Grant will give lectures in Víðgelmir, Orkugarður, Grensásvegur 9, on August 25th-29th beginning at 9:00. Each lecture will take approximately one hour plus discussion afterwards.