News & announcements

FarFish team at the kick-off meeting in Vigo, Spain.

UNU-FTP partnering Horizon 2020 project

UNU-FTP is partnering in an EU Horizon 2020 project, FarFish, relating to improving the sustainability of EU fishing outside European waters.

22. June

Steven Campana delivers a lecture

Dr. Steven Campana, Professor at the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, will give a lecture at MFRI on April 6. The lecture will be held in the 1st floor auditorium at Skúlagata 4, and will commence at 12:30 pm.

04. April

UNU-FTP graduation

Today the nineteenth cohort of fellows of the United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme graduated in a ceremony held at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute of Iceland.

13. March

Barry Costa-Pierce guest lecturer at UNU-FTP

UNU-FTP guest lecturer this year is Dr. Barry Costa-Pierce, who is currently the Chair of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of New England.

18. January

Promotion of research in Breiðafjörður

MFRI and Vör Marine Research have signed a collaboration agreement. The two institutes will work jointly on marine research in the Breiðafjörður area

25. November

Sigurður Líndal, managing director of the Seal Centre, and MFRI director Sigurður Guðjónsson signed …

Collaboration with the Seal Centre

MFRI has made a collaboration agreement with the Icelandic Seal Centre in Hvammstangi.

25. November

Peter H. Wiebe delivers a lecture

Dr. Peter H. Wiebe, Scientist Emeritus, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, will give a lecture on North Atlantic High Latitude Acoustic Backscattering on November 10. The lecture will begin at 12:30 pm at Skúlagata 4, 1st floo

07. November