Supervision

Supervision

BS degree

1997                    Supervising Gréta Björk Kristjánsdóttir in her B.Sc. study at the University of Iceland. Geological evidence of snow avalanche deposit.

2001                    Supervising Thomas Chareyron, a student in geology from the University of Savoie, France.  Study of mass movement processes on slope above manmade structures in the Vestfirðir area.

2004                    Supervising Helgi Páll Jónsson in his B.Sc. study at the University of Iceland. Tephra chronology in the Skagafjörður district.

2014                    Supervising Doris Hermle in here master study at the Univeristy of Innsbruck. Quantification of glacier volume and velocity changes of Morsárjökull south Iceland.

2016                    Supervising Alexander Ágúst Sverrisson and Andri Berg Hallsson in their B.Sc. study at the University of Iceland. Natural hazards in Mýrdalssveit.

2017                    Supervising Sigurður Ragnarsson in his B.Sc. study at the University of Iceland. Áhrif berghrunsflóðsins frá 2007 á hraðasvið Morsárjökuls.

2019 – 2020        Supervising Elísabet Atladóttir in her B.Sc. study at the Univeristy of Iceland. Veðuraðdragandi og aðstæður snjóflóðahrinu í Skarðsdal vorið 2018.

2021                    Supervising Elías Arnar in his B.Sc. study at the Univeristy of Iceland. Geomorphological mapping of a paraglacial slope instability at the southeastern Tindfjallajökull glacier, Iceland.

2022                    Supervising Jóhanna María Steinþórsdóttir in her B.Sc. study at the University of Iceland. Landslide hazard in southern part of the Eyjafjörður fjord. Mapping landslide hazards with Fuzzy Logic.

2025                    Supervising Helgi Birkis Huginsson at the University of Iceland in his B.Sc. study. Strandrof og sprungumyndun á Ofanleitishamri, Heimaey.

Master degree

2009 – 2011        Supervising Helgi Páll Jónsson in his master study at the University of Iceland. Volcanic Park at the Reykjanesskagi peninsula SW Iceland.

2021 – 2022        Supervising Nathan Smail in his master study at the University of Iceland. The Geomorphological Legacy of the Rockslide and Outburst Flood in Steinsholtsdalur in 1967.

2021 – 2023        Supervising Brynja Arnardóttir in her master study at the University of Iceland. The Geomorphology of the Mt. Hleiðargarðsfjall and Mt. Torfufell Landslides.

2021 – 2023        Supervising Shinah Toschka in her master study at the University of Iceland. Crevasse pattern evolution in response to paraglacial processes at three outlet glaciers Tungnakvíslarjökull, Steinsholtsjökull and Sólheimajökull in South Iceland from 1945 to 2022.

2021 – (2023)      Supervising Áslaug Jóna Rafnsdóttir in her master study at the University of Iceland. The Hítardalur landslide (preliminary title).

2022 – (2023)      Supervising Áslaug Erlín Þorsteinsdóttir in her master study at the University of Iceland. Umgjörð og utanumhald utanum viðbragðsaðila á tímum eldgosa við Geldingadali og Grindavík (preliminary title).

2022 – 2023        Supervising Elías Arnar in his master study at the University of Iceland.  Displacement Measurements of Three Slow Moving Landslides at Almenningar, North Iceland. A Feature Tracking Application.

2022 – 2023        Supervising Alexandra Von Der Esch in her master study at the University of Iceland. Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Ground Penetrating Radar Measurements for Permafrost Detection on Strandartindur, Seyðisfjörður - East Iceland.

2022 – 2023        Supervising Léa Jeanne Dumon in her master study at the University of Iceland. Slope processes inventory around the Torfajökull central volcano, South Iceland, using aerial photographs from 1958 to 2022.

2022 – (2023)      Supervising Gísli Bjarki Guðmunds. Gröndal in his master thesis at the University of Iceland. Slope stability on the northern side of Eskifjörður, East Iceland (Preliminary title).

2023 – 2023        Co-supervising Ása Dögg Aðalsteinsdóttir, University of Würzburg. Slope deformation detection using Sentinel-1 InSAR timeseries: Three sites in Tröllaskagi, Iceland analyzed.

2022 – 2024        Supervising Ylse Anna De Vries in her master thesis at the University of Iceland. Geodetic and seismic observations of endogenous earthquakes and faulting at the Tungnakvíslarjökull landslide in south Iceland.

2023 – 2024        Co-supervising Jørgen Natvig Løvseth in his master thesis at the NTNU. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Faculty of Engineering. Department of Geoscience and Petroleum. The Almenningar landslides, northwestern Iceland - detailed characterization of fine-grained material and landslide properties.

2025 – (2027)      Supervising Anný Gréta Þorgeirsdóttir. Project under consideration.

 

PhD degree

2014 – 2018        Supervising Costanza Morion in here PhD study at the Open University in England. The hidden hazard of melting ground ice in Northern Iceland (co supervision).

2018 – 2021        Supervising Greta Wells in here PhD study at the University of Houston, Texas. Reconstructing Holocene Jökulhlaups along the Hvítá River and Gullfoss Waterfall, Iceland (co supervision).

2020 – 2024        Supervising Daniel Ben-Yehoshua in his PhD study at the University of Iceland. Investigating a potential landslide from Svínafellsheiði (main supervision).

Post Doc

2022 – 2025        Greta Wells will work on here 3 years post doc project “Future glacial lake evolution and jökulhlaup hazards in Iceland”