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12. August 2008

Ice Climate Education Camp 2008 in Húsavík

The Ice Climate Education Camp 2008 (I.C.E) organized by Arved Fuchs, a German expedition leader, has now started to be held in Húsavík and the Whale Museum. (see news from the 28th of March). Students from all over the world took part in a competition to qualify for the I.C.E. Fourteen were selected and invited to participate in this workshop, which is about Global Warming and its possible effects on the Arctic Region. The participants are from the following countries: Germany, Austria, Estonia, Cyprus, Russia, Israel, South Africa, Namibia, Columbia, Nicaragua and Canada. An Icelandic student had been invited to in order to represent the hosting country.

The official beginning of the workshop was yesterday and it started with a briefing, introduction and a guiding in the Whale Museum. The Museum will host the I.C.E. for its entire duration from the 10th - 21st of August.

For more information go to: http://www.arved-fuchs.de/af_ice2008.htm  (in German)

 


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24. May 2010

Humpback whale from Skjálfandi Bay photographed off Africa

It is still quite early in the season but the museum’s researchers have already been out on the whale watching boats several times to collect data and take pictures of whales that have been sighted during the trips.

21. December 2009

Ship-building and Whale Watching in the Whale Museum

The Whale Watching room in the Húsavík Whale Museum is now under renovation

13. November 2009

Work in Progress "CARCASSES" The Slaughterhouse Revisited

Sunday November 22nd from 13:00 to 15:00 the public is invited to an open house in the Húsavík Whale Museum.


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