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Ambassador Su Ge of China visited UNU-GTP on December 18 2009. The ambassador was interested to learn more about the strong relationship between the UNU-GTP and the geothermal community in China. The number of Chinese Fellows who have received training from the beginning of the programme is 72 and they are by far the most numerous of the Fellows.   

The “Short Course on Surface Exploration for Geothermal Resources” for young professionals in Central America and the Caribbean was opened on October 17th in El Salvador with the participants arriving in San Salvador.

The closing ceremony of the 31st annual session of the UNU-GTP was held on October 9th, 2009. Twenty two UNU Fellows from sixteen countries completed the traditional six month specialized geothermal courses this year.

The annual seminar with presentations of the UNU Fellow projects will be given in the main lecture room at Orkugardur on Monday September 28th, 2009, starting at 10:00.

This year, the annual UNU Visiting Lecturer is Wilfred A. Elders, Professor Emeritus of Geology from the University of California who has been involved in the Iceland Deep Drilling Programme in Krafla, North Iceland. Wilfred A. Elders will be giving a series of five lectures on "Applications of petrology to geothermics" from Thursday the 3rd to Friday the 4th of September, and Monday the 7th to Wednesday the 9th of September.

The yearbook "Geothermal training in Iceland 2008" has been released and sent out to former UNU-GTP Fellows, supervisors, scientific institutions and libraries.