Thesis defence season ongoing
09.09.2025
Master's thesis defenses by students at the University Centre of the Westfjords are still in full swing. The defenses began on September 1 and will conclude on September 22. By then, 18 students will have presented and defended their master's theses. As usual, the topics are highly interesting and diverse. The defenses are open to the public and take place at the University Centre. It is also possible to follow them on Zoom, and the links can be found in the table below.
| Date | Time (GMT) | Student | Program | Thesis title | Zoom link |
| 1. Sept. | 10:00 | Pia Scaramiglia | CMM | Investigating Carbon Sequestration Mechanisms on the Greenland Shelf Break: Implications for Arctic Blue Carbon Cycling | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/65714713789 |
| 1. Sept. | 13:00 | Tobias Kieckhöfel | CMM | Survival of zooplankton communities in ships’ ballast water tanks | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/69508442735 |
| 2. Sept. | 09:00 | Anni Teperi | CMM | Gone Skipping: Understanding Intermittent Breeding in Atlantic Puffins in Iceland | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/61529328893 |
| 3. Sept. | 09:00 | Sadie Ainsworth | CMM | Investigating the Association Two Large Effect Loci vgll3 and six6 Have on The Maturation Timing in Wild Atlantic Salmon | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/65049255428 |
| 3. Sept. | 13:00 | Vlad Brown | CMM | Cover Preference of Salamanders within the Forests of the Western Coast of Michigan. | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/62737272238 |
| 4. Sept. | 09:00 | Bori Horváth | CMM | Fishing for Plastics: The Socio-Economic Impacts of Marine Plastic Pollution on Small-Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/62990486953 |
| 8. Sept. | 13:00 | Justine Peters | CMM | The Effects of Anthropogenic Materials and Activities on Bird Diversity Along the West Coast of Michigan | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/62878193264 |
| 9. Sept. | 10:30 | Joshua Newhook | CRD | Identifying Potential Cultural Losses from Future Climate Change-Induced Damages to Lighthouses Across Iceland | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/66855473061 |
| 10. Sept. | 14:00 | Claire Gilmoure | CRD | Educational Outcomes of Commercial Grizzly Bear Viewing Participants: A case study from Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/61775945363 |
| 11. Sept. | 14:00 | Alvaro Pastoriza | CRD | Behind the image: a cognitive-affective approach of Iceland destination image through digital media. | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/65412796884 |
| 12. Sept. | 10:30 | Alexis Bradley | CMM | Exploring fish size, otolith characteristics, gonadosomatic index (GSI), and hepatosomatic index (HSI) of six eelpout species (Lycodes spp.) in Icelandic waters | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/61476089597 |
| 15. Sept. | 13:00 | Alberto Roldan | CMM | The fjords of the ringed seal: assessing the status of ringed seals in western Svalbard through machine learning | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/68645413987 |
| 16. Sept. | 16:00 | Anna Morozova | CRD | Service expansion of the Bergið headspace support centre to Ísafjörður, Westfjords: A Case Study from remote Iceland | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/65705181771 |
| 17. Sept. | 10:00 | Yara Wooning | CMM | From Sea to Society: Tracing Ecosystem Service Flows from Coastal and Marine Biodiversity in the Trilateral Wadden Sea | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/64739294733 |
| 17. Sept. | 14:00 | Christoph Pfülb | CRD | Volunteerism and Emergency Management in Iceland: Examining the Role of Place Attachment and Local Engagement in Search and Rescue and Disaster Relief Organizations | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/66048358616 |
| 18. Sept. | 13:00 | Juliette Debost-Mallevialle | CMM | How about we dive deeper? Understanding the role of whale falls in the context of deep-sea species evolution. Azorean case study for conservation guidelines | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/62075821255 |
| 22. Sept. | 08:00 | Nicole Griffin | CRD | Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost in Aotearoa’s Wild South: Themes in Wilderness Perceptions in Tāhuna Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/66416008503 |
| 25. Sept | 17:00 | Jessica Steele | CMM | Art brings people together”: Bridging knowledge systems through Labrador Inuit art and craft to support equitable environmental research in Nunatsiavut | https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/63858412076 |