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More than Just a Race: How Cycling is Changing Tourism in the Westfjords

Lynnee Jacks

This summer, thousands of tourists will drive through the Westfjords in cars or vans, taking advantage of what has become a typical method of travel in Iceland. Even more will unload into the streets ...

22. May 2023

Staff

A typical week in the life of two interns in Ísafjörður

Hanna & Linda

Hello we are Hannah and Linda, two students from southern Germany. We are studying Public Administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Kehl. As part of our studies we are doing a three mont...

26. April 2023

Alumni

Diving into my passion

Ivan Nikonov

In 2019, I enrolled in the Coastal and Marine Management program at the UW. My academic interests have always been in the sphere of water management problems. The Master's program at the UW gave me a ...

30. March 2023

Alumni

Going North to get South

Alan Deverell

Sometimes you need to travel in the opposite direction to get to your destination. Having grown up in the UK, opportunity always seemed to lay to the south, if only because the climate was bound tobe...

21. November 2022

Staff

CRD in a nutshell

Matthias Kokorsch

Last week was pretty packed for the students of the Coastal Communities and Regional Development program (CRD) and me. And the week was somewhat CRD in a nutshell. It all started with two guest lectur...

7. October 2022

Student

Where is the ‘youth is the future’ from 15 years ago?

Silke Van Broeck

Where is the ‘youth is the future’ from 15 years ago? This was a question I was left with after the European Rural Parliament (ERP) that was hosted last weekin Kielce, Poland. I was lucky enough to a...

26. September 2022

Folklore Landscapes in Strandir

UW Staff

Authors are Matthias Egeler and Jón Jónsson. The ground is squelchy, waterlogged. It pulls on your boots. I wonder whether I am just imagining that every step sends a quiver across a few adjacent ...

22. September 2022

Staff

Address on the occasion of convocation 2022

Peter Weiss

Dear graduating students, dear guests Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 You have gone through a cross-disciplinary study prog...

22. June 2022

Alumni

A short blog about my time as a CRD Master’s student and my experiences since graduating from UW…

David Kampfner

For a very long time, longer than I care to remember, I’ve been interested in the adaptation of derelict buildings as cultural and arts spaces - in particular the creative re-use of industrial structu...

5. April 2022

Alumni

Iceland wins the 2nd CASSINI Hackathon with pitch from a CMM alumni

Cécile Chauvat

I am from France, where I studied telecommunications engineering. I didn’t really want to pursue engineering for a living, but I finished my Master’s and I was ready to accept that that would be my ca...

13. January 2022

Alumni

Bringing the CMM program into the Courthouse: A Coastal and Marine Management Alumni Journey

Daniel Metzger

I was a student in the Coastal and Marine Management programme in 2011–2013. Not only did I have a great time, but the programme also helped launch my career in environmental law and provided lasting ...

3. January 2022

Faculty

Sea monsters! Shipwrecks! Sea shanties!

Catherine Chambers

Coastal culture and heritage were the central focus of the course "Maritime Anthropology" that I taught the last week before winter break. The class is an elective for the Coastal Communities and Regi...

17. December 2021