Yesterday, we had a pleasant visit from a group of university students from Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. The trip is part of a field course run by Svart\u00e1rkot \u2013 Culture, Nature (SMN), and the group was accompanied by two teachers.\u00a0The students come from a variety of academic disciplines, such as the natural sciences, environmental studies and creative writing, and the trip spans several days in North Iceland, where the group will visit places including Akureyri, H\u00fasav\u00edk, the M\u00fdvatn area and B\u00e1r\u00f0ardalur. The course begins with preparatory studies at the university, where students are introduced to a variety of subjects related to the culture, society and nature of Iceland. Afterwards, they embark on a two-week field trip around the country, where they attend lectures and visit well-known historical sites and natural wonders.<\/p>\n
At St\u00e9ttinni, students were introduced to the work of the North East Iceland Knowledge Network, Hra\u00f0inn Innovation Centre, the North East Iceland Nature Centre and the University of Iceland Research Centre. Stef\u00e1n P\u00e9tur also showed the students the facilities and equipment at Fab Lab H\u00fasav\u00edk.<\/p>\n
The students impressed us with their interest, active participation and a wide range of questions. We thank them warmly for their visit and look forward to welcoming more inquisitive visitors in the future.<\/p>\n
In the accompanying picture, Ch\u00f6rla Basran from the University of Iceland's Research Centre is seen presenting research methods for analysing the sounds of marine mammals to the group.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00cd g\u00e6r fengum vi\u00f0 \u00e1n\u00e6gjulega heims\u00f3kn fr\u00e1 h\u00f3pi h\u00e1sk\u00f3lanema vi\u00f0 Susquehanna University \u00ed Pennsylvan\u00ednu. Fer\u00f0in er hluti af vettvangsn\u00e1mi \u00e1 vegum Svart\u00e1rkots – menning, n\u00e1tt\u00fara (SMN) og me\u00f0 h\u00f3pnum voru tveir kennarar.\u00a0Nemendurnir koma \u00far fj\u00f6lbreyttum fr\u00e6\u00f0igreinum, s.s. n\u00e1tt\u00faruv\u00edsindum, umhverfisfr\u00e6\u00f0um og skapandi skrifum og fer\u00f0in spannar nokkra daga \u00e1 Nor\u00f0urlandi \u00fear sem h\u00f3purinn heims\u00e6kir m.a. Akureyri, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22163,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions\/22163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17828"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}