The International Whale Conference of the Whale Museum and Research Center of the University of Iceland in Húsavík, which was held on Tuesday, June 21, was well attended, with around 70 people in total.
There were a total of eight papers at the conference, and diversity was paramount. Marianne Helene Rasmussen, director of the Research Center, presented the results of the research on the sounds of gray whales in Skjálfanda, and Níels Einarsson, director of the Vilhjálms Stefánsson Foundation in Akureyri, presented an international collaborative project related to climate, social and environmental systems, whales and tourism in the Arctic, and Sigursteinn Másson spoke about IFAW's activities in Iceland in 13 years. Sigurveig Gunnarsdóttir, a newly graduated geologist from Húsavík, gave a talk about a whale bone that was found during stratigraphic research in Húsavík Eystri and told how the bone helped in the dating of strata.
Dr. Níels Einarsson answers questions about his talk about the Arctic.
Sigurveig Gunnarsdóttir gave a talk on climate change over the millennia and the whalebone encounter
Dr. Jens Koblitz gave a talk on echo sounding technology and the expression of toothed whales
Part of conference visitors
