Sustainability

Sara Fusco, a part-time teacher at the Faculty of Law

Sara gets the award for the course European Convention of Human Rights. Sara is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law, with research on the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Enviromental Constitutionalism in the Arctic. “I focus on how Arctic Constitutions are adapting to international Environmental Law and analyse how Indigenous communities and their cosmovision are involved in this global legal process,” Sara says.

Sean Michael Shully, adjunct in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences

Sean Michael Scully was awarded for his course Microbial Biotechnology (LÍÖ1106200). Sean is an adjunct within the Department of Natural Resource Sciences. His work mostly centers around the use of microorganisms and their enzymes for producing useful molecules from renewable materials.  Microbial biotechnology is a third year undergraduate course that Sean co-teaches with Jóhann Örlygsson as a part of the Biotechnology study line. This course covers a wide-range of sustainability topics related to the use of microorganisms to produce molecules ranging from antibiotics, modified proteins, and industrial chemicals such as biofuels, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. A major topic within the class is the sustainable utilization of biomass as a raw material for cultivating microorganisms and as a starting material from which to make bio-based end products. As part of the course, students are required to undertake a project in which they convert a natural resource (such as grass, seaweed, or waste) into a useful biomolecule using microorganisms or enzyme systems.

Sólveig Zophoníasdóttir and co-applicants Áskell Örn Kárason, Bjarni Jónasson and Brynhildur Bjarnadóttir

Sólveig, Áskell Örn, Bjarni and Brynhildur receive awards for the courses Learning and work with information technology, Science in learning and play, Ethics, ideas and schools and Development theories, students and learning. In the study sessions of student teachers in the first year of teacher education, work is based on the theme of sustainability in all courses and the students work together in groups on projects related to sustainability under the guidance of teachers.

Brynhildur Bjarnadóttir, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education

Brynhildur receives the award for her course Natural Science in Learning and Play. The course focuses on the concept of sustainability in a wide context. Students learn about the Earth’s ecosystem, sustainable ways of living and the impact they have on their environment. Through working on a project, students analyse their own attitudes, values and behaviour, in addition to examining their own consumer habits. Students also learn how to calculate their ecological and carbon footprint, work on ways of improvement and present ideas on changes to their own consumer habits to address the environmental and climate problems of the future. At the same time as they analyse their own lifestyle, students relate these subjects to educational work in preschools and primary schools and look at ways to work with the concepts at other educational levels.

Rachael Lorna Johnstone, Professor in the Faculty of Law

Rachael receives the award for the courses Introduction to Circumpolar Studies and Model Arctic Council. The course Introduction to Circumpolar Studies introduces students in Polar Law to various tools and methods to address the challenges of the Arctic, including climate change, pollution, biological diversity, tourism, use of natural resources and shipping. In the course Model Arctic Council, students communicate with other students in the Arctic on meetings of the Arctic Council and in simulated work, they, for example, negotiate collaborative measures to tackle environmental problems in the Arctic. The discussions this year were on marine plastic and protected areas.

Anna Kristrún Sigurpálsdóttir

Anna receives an award for the thesis The Relation Between Particulate Matter and Seasonal Fluctuations of Mood 

Cayka Jean Asvestas

Cayla receives an award for the thesis Maximizing Growth Determinants of Clostridium isatidis for Enhanced and Sustainable Indigo Production 

Eleni Kontostathi

Eleni receives an award for the thesis The Arctic Ice High Seas Marine Protected Area under the OSPAR Convention: Legal Complexities and Future Prospects

Jordane Liebeaux

Jordane receives an award for the thesis The No-Go Alternative: Rights of Nature and Ecocentrism in the Antarctic

Vera Ósk Albertsdóttir

Vera receives an award for the thesis Exploring the Potential of Aquaculture Rest Raw Materials for Carboxylic Acid Production Through Catalytic Oxidation: Towards Eliminating Waste

Ásta G. Birgisdóttir

Ásta receives an award for the thesis SAD in the Summer

Ivan Nikonov

Ivan receives an award for the thesis Using macroalgal cultivation system in wastewater bioremediation: a case study of Bolungarvík, Iceland

Lisa Wrogemann

Lisa receives an award for the thesis Production of biodegradable Bioplastic based on PHA produced by bacteria isolates from Iceland

Oddur Einarsson

Oddur receives an award for the thesis Greining á kolefnisspori uppsjávarafurða

Pálína Björg Snorradóttir

Pálína Björg receives an award for the thesis Þjónustuupplifun Olís - uppfærsla vörumerkis og innleiðing

Salvör Káradóttir

Salvör fær receives an award for the thesis Biomass to carboxylic acids: A better route to sustainable chemical building blocks

Silja Hrönn Hlynsdóttir

Silja Hrönn receives an award for the thesis Microbial Production of Enantiomerically Pure 1,2-Propanediol

Særún Anna Brynjarsdóttir

Særún Anna receives an award for the thesis Rafrænt eftirlit - Innleiðing rafræns eftirlits í fiskveiðiflotann á Íslandi

Torfi Agnar Jónsson

Torfi Agnar receives an award for the thesis Þjónustuupplifun Olís - uppfærsla vörumerkis og innleiðing