GeoVis Lab Iceland 🦋 geovislab.bsky.social

We are moving our activities over to @BlueSky. Join us there, if you like: bsky.app/profile/geovis…

Congrats to @ISLANDS_MSc students Aisling, Aya & Jaqueline who have won the Copernicus Hackathon with an AI-powered Kelp farming site selection tool. A great achievement to celebrate International Day of Women & Girls in Science! copernicus.gis.is/homepage/index… #WomenInScience #IDWGS2025

@geoviews @bluesky Moving on and joining @geoviews and all the others @bluesky. See you there :-) bsky.app/profile/geovis…

It was great while it lasted. Thank you, Twitter, and goodbye! P.S.: Join me on @bluesky, it has become rather pleasant and lively over there recently: bsky.app/profile/geovie…

The Highland Game brings land to the fore, Where players map choices and more. From rivers to peaks, It's feedback one seeks, To shape Iceland’s landscape and lore! 🧑‍🎨🎨🖌️🗺️ phoenix-iceland.onesource.pt/en #PPGIS #publicparticipation #EDG @phoenix_h2020

Mótaðu 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 #Hálendið #Landnotkun @phoenix_h2020

Highland 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

Interactive map of tourism-related spatial information for Iceland by @ferdamalastofa and @Alta_ehf geo.alta.is/fms/stadir/

For my Icelandic friends! heimildin.is/grein/22342/bl…

“Digital Walking Tours as a Tool for Assessing Place Attachment and Community Responses to Regional Environmental Change” - is the title of a paper just published by @CliCNord affiliated researchers. Read it here: mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8… (Open Access)

'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete bbc.com/future/article…

"A bus is not more efficient than a private car." Discuss! (perhaps a little nugget for @TimHarford and the @BBCMoreOrLess team) #mathsmatters

Fan fact: If you turn Iceland upside down it looks like a pig that's just been sick

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"According to [...] @EU_Eurostat, [ca.] 53% of foreign employees in Iceland are overqualified for their [jobs]. [For] Icelandic employees, [it was] 11%." (government.is/topics/busines…) Lost opportunities when the gov't's strategy are 'new knowledge-based jobs'?grapevine.is/news/2024/07/3…

The Icelandic Met Office has stated that the probability of an eruption within the next 7-10 days is highly likely. If you are planning to the Blue Lagoon, you may want to wait to purchase those tickets. You can follow the updates here. vedur.is/um-vi/frettir/…

Brilliant effort, thanks to all who are helping with this. Looking first to Natural Earth v6, a staple in my cartography and GIS classes!

Learn more about detecting spawning grounds with a drone and machine learning! @liekeponsioen @geoviews icefishresearch.com/2024/07/23/det… journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #IceFishResearch #FishIceland

Global Traffic Index: Mobility ranking of 387 cities in 55 countries based on @TomTom data tomtom.com/traffic-index/

Cartographic Views of the 2024 UK General Election worldmapper.org/uk-general-ele…

No, inequality ISN’T inevitable; it’s a political decision. What sets countries apart? Individualistic versus collective societies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… @dannydorling @geoviews