Icelandic Seal Center
Wednesday the 27th of April Georgia Clack presented her Master’s Thesis at the University Centre of the Westfjords . Her thesis is entitled The impact of tourism on harbour seals and their distribution around Iceland.
Georgia’s supervisors are Sandra M. Granquist, head of the seal research department at the Icelandic Seal Center and seal specialist at the Institute of Freshwater Fisheries; and Erlingur Hauksson, marine biologist at Vör Marine Research Center at Breiðafjörður.
Tomorrow, Tuesday the 19th of April, Elin Lilja Öqvist, is presenting her master’s thesis at Stockholm University. The name of her thesis is Whaling or watching, sealing or seeing? A study of interactions between marine mammal tourism and hunting in Iceland.
Elin’s supervisors are Sandra M. Granquist, head of the seal research department at the Icelandic Seal Center and seal specialist at the Institute of Freshwater Fisheries; and Anders Angerbjörn, professor at Stockholm University.
Following a record-breaking February, where the amount of visitors tripled between 2015 and 2016, we have now had a March to surpass all expectations.
March saw a more than a quadruple year-on-year increase in visitors to the Seal Centre.
We are very excited to see what the summer will bring!
Applications for summer jobs at the Seal Centre need to be in by the 18th of March.
We seek cheerful, service orientated multi-lingual individuals with initiative to assist travelers, help customers in the souvenir shop, sell tickets to the museum, clean, and whatever else needs doing.
Those interested should send their letter of application and CV to Sigurður Líndal at selasetur@selasetur.is by the 18th of March.
Last year a record number of guests visited the Seal Centre, and this year is off to a great start.
Year-on-year our February visitor numbers have more than tripled, and we are delighted with those results.