GeoVis Lab Iceland

Who Feeds The World?

Who Feeds the World? Find out at BragaGarour, the Icelandic Slow Food Festival this weekend at Grasagaröinum. Among the displays will be our FoodMapper Quiz, checking your knowledge of the world of food with over 200 maps! slowfood.is/bragdagardur...

"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think"

Perhaps it's rather 'foster' - seeing this all the time in motivation letters, often also paired with 'real world-this and that. Mainly deconstructs itself as the words are usually linked to empty phrases that say nothing of substance.

Vísindavaka

Make sure to stop by at this year's Vísindavaka in Reykjavík's Laugardalshöll - plenty of Geovizardry and lots of other exciting science on display there this Saturday, 27 September 2025 from 11-17:00 www.visindavaka.is

ISLAS 2025 🏝️ Westfjords Edition 🏔️
Our Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability summer school finally made it to Iceland! 🇮🇸 It was an inspiring week exploring Remote Communities in Transition @haskoliislands.bsky.social / @islandsmaster.bsky.social
#ISLAS2025

Well done, to our ISLANDS-Women in Science ⚡🏋️‍♀️💪🚀

2025 Tæknidagur Tæknidagur Tech Day Laugardagur 8. febrúar 2025 | 11:00 - 16:00 Tæknidagurinn – fyrir okkur öll. Aðgangur að tæknideginum er ókeypis og bæ...

Join us on Saturday and see geospatial technology in action: We are presenting our 'Highland Game' and the digital map exhibition 'Talking Maps' featuring hundreds of @worldmapper.bsky.social cartograms!
📍 Harpa (Reykjavík, Iceland)
🗓️ Feb 8, 11:00–16:00
🆓 Free entry
🔗 utmessan.is/taeknidagur

How do place names evolve? "I am contemplating the concept of place names, how it has developed in Iceland, and why interest in collecting place names arose early in the 20th century," says Birna, who has a background in Icelan...

How do place names evolve? Örnefni, an ancient Icelandic term, highlights how human interactions and landscape changes shape place names english.hi.is/news/how-do-...

Playing for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural Iceland Effective nature conservation and citizen participation are essential for sustainable development and biodiversity preservation. This paper introduces the ‘Land Use Game’, a prototype serious game des...

Playing for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural Iceland www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

Remote Communities in Transition: Join us in the Westfjords of Iceland for the 2025 Summer School in the Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability series. Apply now! tinyurl.com/islas2025

A large school of hardyhead silversides faces four juvenile blacktip reef sharks

Photo winner 'The hunt from above' by Angela Albi. Drone pilot, August Paula. — A large school of hardyhead silversides faces four juvenile blacktip reef sharks. Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. 🦑🐟🦈

Mapping forecast: This part of a map projections assignment reads a bit like the shipping forecast.
Grading time - the most wonderful time of the year ;-) #gradingtime

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀Dec 2, 1594 Gerardus Mercator died in Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves, Germany 🇩🇪

1569: Invention of cylindrical projection for portraying the 🌍🌎globe on maps, preserve straightness of rhumb lines
(for better or worse, but it helped sailors a lot then)

Sundhnúksgígar eruption - 28.11.2024 time: 13:00 - 3D model by Náttúrufræðistofnun (@natturufraedistofnun) English below: Þrívíddarlíkön af gossvæðinu við Sundhnúksgíga unnin af myndmælingateymi Náttúrufræðistofnunar. Verkefnið er unnið í samstarfi við Almannavarnir og Háskóla Ísland. 3D models of the er...

3D Model of the volcanic eruption site on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland (updated 28 Nov 2024) sketchfab.com/3d-models/su...

#30DayMapChallenge Day 26 (Map Projection) - Continued: Since I already got fan-shape #ginkgo leaves, why not make a conic projection map, which naturally has a fan shape? Here comes a topographic map of North America, using Albers equal area projection.🌎

So great to see this finally taking off. Feels like the good old days of Twitter :-)

Amazing few days seeing the science community assemble on BlueSky 🧪

Follow & share #Iceland based scientists for Fish & Fishers 🐟🎣Oceans🌊 Ecology & Biodiversity🌍🌱 Geology🌋Climate🌡️ Sustainability💚 Habitats🪸 Geography and Mapping🗺️ Community and inclusive methods🏘️ Marine mammals🐳

go.bsky.app/85P7bK8

The Great German-Icelandic Bake Off: Presenting the Kartenkeks (Map Cookie). What took me so long to get a map shaped cookie cutter into my collection (courtesy of the German Embassy in Reykjavík)? A gap in the kitchen drawer that needs to be filled quickly!

Your chance to study islands in Iceland (and other amazing locations across Europe). Join us!

Highland Game: Envisioning Land Use in the Icelandic Highlands. Draw your preferred land uses, explore & engage with others’ ideas, and share your thoughts. Your input could help shape future decisions for this unique environment. Participate here: phoenix-iceland.onesource.pt/en

Mótaðu framtíð íslenska hálendisins! Notaðu Hálendisleikinn til að kortleggja þína landnotkun, skoða hugmyndir annarra og deila þínum skoðunum. Taktu þátt hér: phoenix-iceland.onesource.pt/is

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