• Master of Science in Agronomy, North Dakota State University, USA, 1987

• Whole farm research
• Nutrient management, energy crops
• On farm forage concervation
• Timothy

• Ph.D. in Education

• Quality Management for Universities
• Innovation in the Public sector
• Arctic cooperation in science and innovation
• Icelandic representative in IASC Council
• Icelandic representative in Sustaining Arctic Observation Networks (SAON)
• Icelandic representative in a Programme Committee for Nordic Centers of Excellence in Arctic Research
• Chairman of the Co-operative Committee on Arctic Affairs
• Member of the Arctic Circle Advisory Board
• Member of the Northern Research Forum Steering Committee
• Board member of the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network
• Associate Scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute

• Broad range of experience at national and international levels dealing with strategic planning and organizational development, a primary focus of which has been Arctic issues, where he works with a diverse range of stakeholders throughout the Arctic.
• Heavily involved in the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment, which creates a baseline for use in global and regional assessments of biodiversity and provide a basis to inform and guide future Arctic Council work.
• Is also closely involved in the implementation of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP), which is working to facilitate more rapid detection, communication and responses to the significant biodiversity-related trends and pressures affecting the circumpolar world

• Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Washington, field of study: glaciology

• Glaciological research and studies of changes in glaciers and climate
• Studies of snow avalanches and natural hazards
• Geophysical modelling and data processing
• Hazard zoning for snow avalanches and landslides
• Snow avalanche protection measures
• Snow avalanche forecasting
• Glacier mapping - lidar mapping
• The Nordic Centre of Excellence SVALI
• The snow avalanche research projects CADZIE and SATZIE
• The climate change studies CCEP, CWE, VVO, CE and VO, CES

• Climate
• Meteorology
• Research in Climatology

• Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, 1993

• International History
• Contemporary History
• International Relations
• Icelandic Foreign and Security Policy
• Arctic Geopolitics, Governance and Institutional Developments
• Icelandic Arctic Strategy and Policies
• US-European Relations Since World War
• U.S.-Iceland Relations
• The Politics of Memory
• Post-Conflict Politics and Societal Reconstruction

Arctic Research

Bibliography can be found here