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The UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2011" has been released and is now available for download on-line under publications.

The Fellows' reports from the six month specialized training in 2011 are now on-line on the UNU-GTP website under publications. The release of the UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2011" is expected to be later this month.

On Tuesday the 15th of May at 14:00 in room 131 in Askja at the University of Iceland, Huang Jiachao will defend his MSc thesis, titled: "Assessment and management of sedimentary geothermal resources". Jiachao's supervisor is Guðni Axelsson, head of geophysics and reservoir physics at ISOR (Iceland GeoSurvey). The external examiner is Páll Jónsson physicist at ISOR.

His excellency, Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the State Council of the People‘s Republic of China, came to Iceland on a two-day official visit on 20-21 April. The Premier met with the Icelandic Prime Minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, and he also visited the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The Premier visited various interesting geological sites during his stay in Iceland, but he himself has a degree in geology from the China University of Geoscience. Seventy eight scientists and engineers from China have received specialized training at the UNU-GTP in Iceland. Several of them are among the leading geothermal experts in China.

Two UNU-GTP MSc defences will be held this week.  On Tuesday the 17th of April at 15:00 in room 132 in Askja at the University of Iceland, Sylvia Joan Malimo will defend her Master thesis, titled: "Aquifer fluid modeling and assessment of minerals-gas-liquid equilibria in the Námafjall geothermal system, NE-Iceland". On Wednesday the 18th of april at 15:00 in room 158 in VR2 at the University of Iceland, Jose Roberto Estevez Salas will defend his Master thesis, titled: "Geothermal Power Plant Projects in Central America: Technical and Financial Feasibility Model Assessment."

UNU-GTP Fellow Uwera Rutagarama from Rwanda defended her thesis entitled “The role of well testing in geothermal resource assessment” on Tuesday the 27th of March.  The defence was held at the University of Iceland in Askja.  Supervisors on the project were Gylfi Páll Hersir at ISOR, Páll Jónsson at ISOR and Sigrún Hreinsdóttir at UI.  The external examiner was Grímur Björnsson at Reykjavík Geothermal.