In a research project by Iceland under the auspice of the Marine Research Institute Iceland in 2003-2007, 200 minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) were caught in Icelandic waters. Within this research effort of Iceland, a comprehensive research activites were devoted to analysis of trace elements and organic contaminants in both different tissues of the minke whale and its possible prey sp...

An individual based, discrete and stochastic model for the collective motion of fish presented in Hubbard et al. (2004) is applied to the task of simulating migrations of capelin in the seas around Iceland. In this application the individual particles may be viewed as small schools of fish that are self-propelled and interacting in such a way that the motion is governed on one hand by a tendenc...

Genetic variation at the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) gene is correlated with melanin color variation in a few reported vertebrates. In Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), plumage color variation exists throughout their arctic and subarctic circumpolar distribution, from white to gray and almost black. Multiple color variants do exist within the majority of populations; however, a few areas (e.g., ...

In debates on societal collapse, Iceland occupies a position of precarious survival, defined by not becoming extinct, like Norse Greenland, but having endured, sometimes by the narrowest of margins. Classic decline narratives for late medieval to early modern Iceland stress compounding adversities, where climate, trade, political domination, unsustainable practices, and environmental degradatio...

We present the construction of a continuous, daily (09:00 UTC), station-based (Azores-Iceland) North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index back to 1871 which is extended back to 1850 with additional daily mean data. The constructed index more than doubles the length of previously existing, widely available, daily NAO time series. The index is created using entirely observational sea-level pressure (...

The Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a medium-sized shorebird that breeds in the Arctic and winters along northern Atlantic coastlines. Migration routes and affiliations between breeding grounds and wintering grounds are incompletely understood. Some populations appear to be declining, and future management policies for this species will benefit from understanding their migration pattern...

Iodine deficiency is considered to be one of the most common nutrition disorders in the world and the world's greatest single cause of preventable brain damage. Despite a worldwide application of successful iodine supplementation programs over the last four decades, iodine deficiency remains a major public health problem throughout the world. All European countries except Iceland have experienc...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main source(s): Icelandic regional development institute, The Nurse´s Association, RHA-University Akureyri, HSA, Health Directorate East-Iceland. OnBehalf KRANS People living in rural Iceland have higher rate cardiovascular risk factors, healthcare utilization and death worse self-reported health than people urban...

A volcanic earthquake with Mw 5:6 occurred beneath the Bárdarbunga caldera in Iceland on 29 September 1996. This earthquake is one of a decade-long sequence ofM 5 events at Bárdarbunga with non-double-couple mechanisms in the Global Centroid Moment Tensor catalog. Fortunately, it was recorded well by the regional-scale Iceland Hotspot Project seismic experiment. We investigated the event with a...

Avian influenza virus (AIV) in wild birds has been of increasing interest over the last decade due to the emergence of AIVs that cause significant disease and mortality in both poultry and humans. While research clearly demonstrates that AIVs can move across the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean, there has been no data to support the mechanism of how this occurs. In spring and autumn of 2010 and autumn...