Monitoring and Research
Monitoring and Research
The IINH undertakes a large number of research and monitoring projects. Many are long-term projects, but others are narrower in their scope and time frame.
Interdisciplinary research
Geology research
- Geoconservation and documentation of geoheritage
- Geological maps of Iceland
- Glacial and environmental change in Iceland in the Late Weichselian and Early Holocene
- The glacial history of the Drangajökull ice cap
- Landslides in Iceland
- Present-day glaciers on the Tröllaskagi Peninsula and their environment
- Silicic rock
- Volcanism in the Western Volcanic Zone
- Volcanogenic encrustations
Botany research
Zoology research
- Arctic fox population monitoring
- Benthic invertebrates of Icelandic waters (BioIce)
- Bird ringing
- Breeding distribution of Icelandic birds
- Cormorant monitoring
- Gyrfalcon monitoring
- Icelandic Christmas Bird Count
- Monitoring lepidopteran species
- Monitoring of rock ptarmigan population
- New invertebrate colonists
- White-tailed eagle monitoring
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