GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Who Feeds the World? Find out at BragaGarour, the Icelandic Slow Food Festival this weekend at Grasagaröinum. Among the displays will be our FoodMapper Quiz, checking your knowledge of the world of food with over 200 maps! slowfood.is/bragdagardur... 021
GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Make sure to stop by at this year's Vísindavaka in Reykjavík's Laugardalshöll - plenty of Geovizardry and lots of other exciting science on display there this Saturday, 27 September 2025 from 11-17:00 www.visindavaka.isvisindavaka.isVísindavaka 020
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandBenjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2025ISLAS 2025 🏝️ Westfjords Edition 🏔️ Our Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability summer school finally made it to Iceland! 🇮🇸 It was an inspiring week exploring Remote Communities in Transition @haskoliislands.bsky.social / @islandsmaster.bsky.social #ISLAS2025 142
GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Well done, to our ISLANDS-Women in Science ⚡🏋️♀️💪🚀 010
GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Join us on Saturday and see geospatial technology in action: We are presenting our 'Highland Game' and the digital map exhibition 'Talking Maps' featuring hundreds of @worldmapper.bsky.social cartograms! 📍 Harpa (Reykjavík, Iceland) 🗓️ Feb 8, 11:00–16:00 🆓 Free entry 🔗 utmessan.is/taeknidagurutmessan.is2025 TæknidagurTæknidagur Tech Day Laugardagur 8. febrúar 2025 | 11:00 - 16:00 Tæknidagurinn – fyrir okkur öll. Aðgangur að tæknideginum er ókeypis og bæ... 010
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandBenjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 04/02/2025How do place names evolve? Örnefni, an ancient Icelandic term, highlights how human interactions and landscape changes shape place names english.hi.is/news/how-do-...english.hi.isHow do place names evolve?"I am contemplating the concept of place names, how it has developed in Iceland, and why interest in collecting place names arose early in the 20th century," says Birna, who has a background in Icelan... 041
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandBenjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 17/01/2025Playing for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural Iceland www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...mdpi.comPlaying for the Planet? A Serious Game Approach to Land Use Planning with Students in Rural IcelandEffective nature conservation and citizen participation are essential for sustainable development and biodiversity preservation. This paper introduces the ‘Land Use Game’, a prototype serious game des... 022
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandISLANDS MSc @islandsmaster.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Remote Communities in Transition: Join us in the Westfjords of Iceland for the 2025 Summer School in the Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability series. Apply now! tinyurl.com/islas2025 134
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandSharkScience @sharkscience.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Photo winner 'The hunt from above' by Angela Albi. Drone pilot, August Paula. — A large school of hardyhead silversides faces four juvenile blacktip reef sharks. Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. 🦑🐟🦈 016959
GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Mapping forecast: This part of a map projections assignment reads a bit like the shipping forecast. Grading time - the most wonderful time of the year ;-) #gradingtime 020
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandMichael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 02/12/2024#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Dec 2, 1594 Gerardus Mercator died in Duisburg, Duchy of Cleves, Germany 🇩🇪 1569: Invention of cylindrical projection for portraying the 🌍🌎globe on maps, preserve straightness of rhumb lines (for better or worse, but it helped sailors a lot then) 091
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandBenjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 02/12/20243D Model of the volcanic eruption site on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland (updated 28 Nov 2024) sketchfab.com/3d-models/su...sketchfab.comSundhnúksgígar eruption - 28.11.2024 time: 13:00 - 3D model by Náttúrufræðistofnun (@natturufraedistofnun)English below: Þrívíddarlíkön af gossvæðinu við Sundhnúksgíga unnin af myndmælingateymi Náttúrufræðistofnunar. Verkefnið er unnið í samstarfi við Almannavarnir og Háskóla Ísland. 3D models of the er... 072
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandAtlas Guo @cartoguophy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024#30DayMapChallenge Day 26 (Map Projection) - Continued: Since I already got fan-shape #ginkgo leaves, why not make a conic projection map, which naturally has a fan shape? Here comes a topographic map of North America, using Albers equal area projection.🌎 26110
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandGuðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir @fishiceland.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Amazing few days seeing the science community assemble on BlueSky 🧪 Follow & share #Iceland based scientists for Fish & Fishers 🐟🎣Oceans🌊 Ecology & Biodiversity🌍🌱 Geology🌋Climate🌡️ Sustainability💚 Habitats🪸 Geography and Mapping🗺️ Community and inclusive methods🏘️ Marine mammals🐳 go.bsky.app/85P7bK8 2175
Reposted by GeoVis Lab IcelandBenjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024The Great German-Icelandic Bake Off: Presenting the Kartenkeks (Map Cookie). What took me so long to get a map shaped cookie cutter into my collection (courtesy of the German Embassy in Reykjavík)? A gap in the kitchen drawer that needs to be filled quickly! 282
GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Your chance to study islands in Iceland (and other amazing locations across Europe). Join us! 021
GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Highland Game: Envisioning Land Use in the Icelandic Highlands. Draw your preferred land uses, explore & engage with others’ ideas, and share your thoughts. Your input could help shape future decisions for this unique environment. Participate here: phoenix-iceland.onesource.pt/en 000
GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Mótaðu framtíð íslenska hálendisins! Notaðu Hálendisleikinn til að kortleggja þína landnotkun, skoða hugmyndir annarra og deila þínum skoðunum. Taktu þátt hér: phoenix-iceland.onesource.pt/is 000