News & announcements

20th cohort of UNU-FTP fellows graduate

On February 26th the twentieth cohort of United Nations University Fishery Training Program (UNU-FTP) fellows graduated.

28. February

Advice released February 2, 2018

Capelin.

02. February

Advice released January 29, 2018

Rockweed

29. January

Photo: https://ninadehnhard.wordpress.com/

Nina Dehnhard delivers a lecture at MFRI

Dr. Nina Dehnhard will give a lecture at MFRI on January 18. The lecture will be held in the 1st floor auditorium at Skúlagata 4, and will commence at 12:30 pm.

15. January

Decreasing glacier cover threatens biosphere in rivers worldwide

A recent study by an international group of research scientists shows that invertebrates in glacier- rivers react in the same way all over the world to decreasing glacier cover

18. December

Photo: Julie Béesau/Icelandic Orca Project.
ISM136 photographed in Grundarfjörður in March, 2014.

New studies on deformities in cetaceans

Two studies on the occurrence of vertebral column deformities and bent dorsal fins in killer whales of Iceland have recently been published. Filipa I.P. Samarra, Ecologist at MFRI, was among the authors of the two studies.

21. November

Advice released November 16, 2017

Northern Shrimp

16. November

Hydrographic parameters major influence on krill

A study on the distribution, maturity and population structure of krill in relation to main hydrographic regions around Iceland was recently published in PLoS ONE.

13. November

Advice released October 30 2017,

Norwegian Spring-Spawning herring

30. October

Mia Cerfonteyn, PhD student engaged in MIME, working at MFRI with the new FlowCam.

First FlowCam in Iceland

A dynamic imaging particle analyzer for automated microalgae sample analysis.

27. October