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We congratulate our NORDRESS partners, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Deanne Bird & Emmanuel Pagneux who recently published the research article What can we learn from previous generations? Álftaver´s experience of the 1918 […]

NordForsk has approved the final report of NORDRESS and declared the project concluded

Guðrún Gísladóttir and Deanne Bird observed and interviewed visitors in a hazardous area, where warning signs did not attract the necessary attention. One of the main newspapers in Iceland interviewed […]

One of the studies conducted under NORDRESS centered around the problem of how to warn visitors about imminent dangers in the area they are about to enter. Guðrún Gísladóttir and […]

Ingibjörg Lilja Ómarsdóttir presented NORDRESS at the NordForsk webinar From Haga to COVID-19 held in January. She was one of three lecturers presenting a NordForsk funded project. Her main focus […]

We congratulate our NORDRESS partner, Atle Dyregrov who recently published two research articles together with his colleges. In Journal of Loss and Trauma , together with Anita Fjærestad , Rolf Gjestad […]

We congratulate our NORDRESS partner, Hans Jørgen Henriksen who, together with his college Susie Mielby, recently published the research article Hydrogeological Studies Integrating the Climate, Freshwater Cycle, and Catchment Geography […]

We congratulate our NORDRESS partners, Rasmus Dahlberg, Morten Thanning Vendelø, Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Kristian Cedervall Lauta, who recently published the research article Offshore is Onshore: Scalability, Synchronization, and Speed […]

We congratulate our NORDRESS partners, Deanne Bird & Guðrún Gísladóttir, who recently published the paper Enhancing tourists’ safety in volcanic areas: An investigation of risk communication initiatives in Iceland in International […]

In autumn 2019, the graduate course „Coping with Disasters“ was launched at the Institute for Sustainability Studies, University of Iceland, supported by NSSA. The course aligns with the pillars of […]

Guðrún Pétursdóttir, associate professor at the University of Iceland and Project Co-ordinator of NORDRESS was honored yesterday by the Icelandic Association of Graduate. She was recognized for her contribution to […]

Seminar/Course grant was awarded to: WP 3 to host a workshop: “Psychosocial responses to natural disasters/climate change” in Bergen in November 2020. WP 4.2. to hold an oral presentation at […]

We hope that you had a pleasant time over Christmas  and wish you all the best for the New Year ! We would like to draw your attention to the […]

The NORDRESS team had a splendid annual meeting in Copenhagen on Nov 21 2019 – special thanks to all who attended and presented their work! This was an unusual meeting. […]

We congratulate our NORDRESS partners who recently published the paper Rockslide in Askja, C-Iceland, on 21st July 2014 in the Icelandic periodical The Naturalist. Jón Kristinn Helgason, Sigríður Sif Gylfadóttir, […]

Fjarkönnun getur bætt vöktun óstöðugra hlíða Sérfræðingar Veðurstofunnar kynna sér aðferðir Norðmann Hópur sérfræðinga frá Veðurstofunni og Háskóla Íslands heimsótti Noreg í sumar til þess að kynna sér kortlagningu og […]

We draw your attention to the upcoming September 1st deadline for training and mobility grants. Please find application forms and further information on this site.

NORDRESS is happy to announce two new publications on infrastructure resilience. „Developing scenarios to explore impacts and weaknesses in aviation response exercises for volcanic ash eruptions in Europe“ was published  […]

NORDRESS is proud to announce a new publication in the Journal Tourist Studies on:„The sublime attraction of active volcanoes: An exploration of tourists´experiences during a long distance hiking route in […]

WP 4.2. To travel to south Iceland to collect dataWP 4.2. To participate and promote NORDRESS work at ECCA 2019 (5 persons) WP 4.2 & 5.5 For a fieldwork in […]

We hope that you had a pleasant time over Christmas  and wish you all the best for the New Year ! We would like to draw your attention to the […]

New research funded by NORDRESS and led by Deanne Bird and Guðrún Gísladóttir of the University of Iceland looks at how communities responded to evacuation orders during the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruptions and […]

Tilgangur ráðstefnunnar er að auka þekkingu á framhlaupum og viðbúnaði við hættu af þeirra völdum hér á landi og stuðla að umræðu og stefnumörkun um rannsóknir og vöktun á framhlaupahættu.   […]

NORDRESS is proud to announce a new publication in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction:  Participatory early warning and monitoring systems: A Nordic framework for web-based flood risk management, […]

An unusual NORDRESS meeting took place in Copenhagen on Sept 17-18 2018. More than 20 partners gathered to explore how their work and findings in NORDRESS can be presented to […]

NORDRESS is proud to announce that Deanne Bird´s book „Volcanic Crisis Communication“ which she wrote together with her colleges has been published. Both Deanne Bird and Gudrun Gisladottir attended and […]

We draw your attention to the upcoming September 1st deadline for training and mobility grants. Please find application forms and further information on this site.

NORDRESS is proud to announce that on May 4 one of its PhD students, Uta Reichardt, defended her PhD thesis “Ash and Aviation in Europe: A Stakeholder Analysis of Preparedness […]

The fourth  NORDRESS Annual meeting will be held in Malmö, Sweden on Wednesday April 25 (starts at 15:00) & finish with lunch on Thursday April 26.  Agenda

February 1st is the deadline for training and mobility grants. Please find application forms and further information on this site.

The IDRIM Society are pleased to inform you that the DEADLINE for submission of papers based on work presented at the IDRiM 2017 Conference in Iceland has been extended to 31 December  2017. Please […]

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NORDRESS is proud to announce that on October 25 2017 one of its PhD students, Rasmus Dahlberg, defended his PhD thesis „From Risk to Resilience Challenging Predictability in Contemporary Disaster […]

The IDRIM Society are pleased to inform you that the DEADLINE for submission of papers based on work presented at the IDRiM 2017 Conference in Iceland has been extended to 30 November […]

Annual report 2016

IDRiM2017- Program ORGANIZING COMMITTEES IDRiM2017 Local Organizing Committtee Guðrún Pétursdóttir Guðrún Gísladóttir Harpa Dís Jónsdóttir Ingibjörg Lilja Ómarsdóttir Michiko Sawai IDRiM2017 Scientific Program Committee Guðrún  Pétursdóttir Guðrún Gísladóttir Ana Maria […]

Mobility grants have been awarded to: WP 3.1 To take part in the XV International Conference of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies in Odense, Denmark. WP 3.1. To […]

We draw your attention to the upcoming September 1st deadline for training and mobility grants. Please find application forms and further information on this site.

the preliminary program for IDRiM2017 has been posted on the website

The abstract submission deadline for IDRiM2017 has been extended until April 30th 2017. Consult the „Preliminary Programme“ on  www.IDRiM2017.com, for information about the programme structure.

Mobility grants have been awarded to: WP 3.1 for a study visit to Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. WP 4.2 for a field work in Iceland. WP 4.2 to represent NORDRESS […]

IDRiM 2017 – Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management        The 8th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2017) will take place in Reykjavík, […]

We draw your attention to the upcoming February 1st deadline for training and mobility grants. Please find application forms and further information on this site.

The workshop was held at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) the 30.11.16 and 01.12.16. It was organized by IMO, the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and the Geological Survey of Denmark […]

Team members in NORDRESS WP3 have published a paper in BMJ OPEN volume 6, issue 9, 2016 ! Long term health effects of the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption a prospective cohort […]

Mobility grants have been awarded to: WP 3.1 to visit Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm to gather data for a project. WP 3.1 to visit and work with the Swedish disease […]

We draw your attention to the upcoming September 1st deadline for training and mobility grants. Please find application forms and further information on this site.

The NORDRESS office will be closed due to summer vacations from Tuesday the 5th of July until the 3rd of August.  

NORDRESS first PhD Edda Björk Þórðardóttir defended her Doctoral thesis at the University of Iceland on June 7th 2016. Edda Björk is the first NORDRESS doctoral student to  complete her […]

Bergþóra Njála Guðmundsdóttir completed her MSc studies in Environment and Natural Resources from the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland in June 2016. Her thesis is entitled […]

The team working on WP 6.1 has completed the first part of its study and submitted the report Resilience to natural hazards:An overview of institutional arrangements and practices in the […]

Uta Reichardt, NORDRESS WP5.5 doctoral student has received a 2-year doctoral grant from ISAVIA, the Iceland Airport and Air Navigation Control Centre, to complete her study air traffic and the […]

Silje Aurora  Andresen from NTNU in Trondheim, NORDRESS WP 4 doctoral student, has just completed a 6 week stay with Professor Guðrún Gísladóttir and her team at the University of […]

The first  NORDRESS Annual meeting will be held in Copenhagen on Monday May 9th 2016 from 10 – 18.45 followed by dinner. The meeting will take place at Hotel SP34 […]

Mobility grants have been awarded to: WP 4.3 for participation in COWM2016 conference. WP 5.1 for a study visit to NGI. WP 5.4 for participation in the cruise ship disaster […]

A temporary position as researcher is available at the Department of Geography. The position is a 1 year post contained within a research project on Natural hazards and community resilience. […]

We draw your attention to the upcoming February 1st deadline for training and mobility grants. Please find application forms and further information on this site.

The NORDRESS 2016 annual meeting will be arranged  „back-to-back“ with the international conference Adaptation Futures 2016, which will be held in Rotterdam on May 10-13 2016. http://www.adaptationfutures2016.org/ The NORDRESS meeting […]

Mobility grants have been awarded to: WP 3.1 for study visit to Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm Sweden and project meeting in the Vestfjords. WP 4.2 for field trip to Northern […]

NORDRESS took part in a conference on the development of civil protection in the Nordic countries, organized by NORDRED and held in Göteborg on Sept 14-16 2015. The NORDRESS project […]

We draw your attention to the upcoming September 1st deadline for training and mobility grants. Please find application forms and further information on this site.

Tools and techniques in climate changes studies Negative consequences of climate change are often conceived as too abstract and only of consequence for others in distant places. It is believed, […]

We would like to mention two things as gentle reminders. First: Please let us know about any events, presentations, publications or the like that are either directly or indirectly related […]

NSSA (The Nordic Social Security Academy) and NWW (The Nordic Welfare Wath- in Response to Crisis) co-hosted the symposium Social Services in Times of Disaster in Reykjavík, May 4-5, 2015.

NSSA supports a variety of activities in 2015 Mobility grants have been awarded to:

We hope that everyone has gained an overview of NORDRESS and a good feeling for her/his own roles in the project at the meeting in January. We managed to find many possibilities […]