Recently Lotte Lille visited the Seal Center and interviewed our specialists on the Center. The result can be found on Lotte Lille’s blog.
Click here to read the coverage (in Swedish)
DNA analyses on harbour seal feces
Sandra Granquist seal specialist at the Icelandic Seal Center has started DNA analyses of harbour seal feces to determine their food intake. The project is a cooperation between the Icelandic Freshwater Institute, The Natural Museum in Sweden and University of Stockholm. The analyses takes place at the Molecular Systematics Laboratory in Sweden.
Sandra Granquist gives a seminar at ETOUR
Sandra Granquist, who runs the biological department of the Seal center, gave a seminar at the The European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) at Mid Sweden University in Östersund last week. The seminar was called “Balancing use and protection of wildlife – An interdisciplinary approach for biology and tourism research” and was about the interdisciplinary research Sandra has been working on at the Seal center together with Per-Åke Nilsson, a former employee of the Seal center. The study is about the importance of combining results from ecological research and tourism research for wildlife tourism mangement purposes. This research is part of a licentiate thesis that Sandra defended at the zoological department of Stockholm University, Sweden in November.
New information web page
A new information webpage for the Hunathing vestra has been opened. Now you can find information on things to see and do in the area as well as a guide to accomodation and dining. On the site you can also find listings of events and happenings in the Hunathing vestra area as wells as coverage of the local company of the month.
New Managing Director
Unnur Valborg Hilmarsdóttir is the new Managing Director of the Seal Center: Unnur has 20 years of operational and managerial experience as assistant general manager of Hreyfing Health club, general manager of Dale Carnegie in Iceland and founder and owner of Vendum, a leading executive coaching company in Iceland. Unnur has been apart of several entreprenaural projects as well. Unnur has a B.Ed degree from the University of Iceland, Diploma in business and administration from the same Univeristy and is an Executive coach from Reykjavik University and Coach U. Unnur is an ACC certified coach with ICF, International Coach Federation.