Curriculum Vitae

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Name: Bjarki Þór Kjartansson

Born in Reykjavík, Iceland on 23.march 1978

Citizenship : Icelandic

Currently resident of Sweden

Family: living with Kolbrún Ósk Árnadóttir, we have one daughter – Klara Rut Bjarakdóttir born 2005.

 

Education:

B.Sc. Geography - University of Iceland in June 2002

B.Sc. Thesis – Ice formation on Icelandic lakes – an experiment on the usability of an ice forecast model

 

Current occupation:

PhD student in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis at Lund University, Sweden. Started in September 2006. Research project: Modeling potential forest growth in Iceland and forecasting future growth in accordance with global climate change.

Supervisor: Dr. Benjamin Smith (Associate professor)   Tel +46 46 - 222 43 54

 

Previous profession:

Research Scientist in Geographical Information Systems and Cartography at the Icelandic Forest Research (IFR).  2002-2006

             Dr. Aðalsteinn Sigurgeirsson           tel +354 5154500

 

Icelandic farmland database – GIS work and ground truth for remotely sensed data.

Summer 2001 and partly winter 2001-2002

Dr. Ólafur Arnalds     tel +354 433 5000

 

Summer exchange student with IAESTE in Slovenia, summer of 2000. Working at the Slovenian hydro-meteorological institute (Hydrometerolozki zavod). 

Dr. Damjan Rogelj     tel +386 14362784

 

National power company of Iceland (Landsvirkjun). Working as Hydrological field technician. Summer job in 1998-2000 (total of 12 months work experience).  

Mr. Sigurður Páll Ásólfsson             tel +354 5159000

 

Peer-reviewed publications and book chapters:

Bjarni D. Sigurdsson, Arnor Snorrason, Bjarki Þór Kjartansson and Jon A. Jonsson, 2006. Total area of planted forests in Iceland and their carbon stocks and fluxes. TemaNord XX (in press)

 

Guðmundur Halldórsson and Bjarki Þór Kjartansson, 2005.  Sitkalús.  Í; Á sprekamó.  Afmælisrit tileinkað Helga Hallgrímssyni sjötugum (editor, Sigurður Ægisson), bls. 107-115. ISBN 9979-776-60-9.   (Green spruce aphid)

 

Other publication:

Helgi Hallgrímsson, Guðmundur Halldórsson, Bjarki Þór Kjartansson and Lárus Heiðarsson, 2006. Birkidauðinn á Austurlandi 2005. Skógræktarritið 2, 46-55.

             (Damage of birch forests in eastern Iceland 2005)

 

Bjarki Þór Kjartansson and Björn Traustasson, 2006. Landnotkun skógræktar á Íslandi –einfaldur samanburður landupplýsinga. Skógræktarritið 1, 81-87.

             (Land use of forestry in Iceland- simple comparison of geographic data)

 

Arnór Snorrason and Bjarki Þór Kjartansson, 2004. Íslensk skógarúttekt : verkefni um landsúttekt á skóglendum á Íslandi : kynning og fyrstu niðurstöður. Skógræktarritið 2, 101-108.

(Icelandic Forest Inventory: introduction and first results)

 

Ríkharður F. Friðriksson, Katrín Hólm Hauksdóttir and Bjarki Þór Kjartansson, 2002: Hafískönnun með fjarkönnunargögnum. Fjallið, 17. árg., 1. tbl., 2002, 12-13.

             (Mapping of sea ice with remote sensing)

 

Bjarki Þór Kjartansson. Lagnaðarís á íslenskum vötnum : könnun á notkunarmöguleikum ísspárlíkans. Reykjavík, 2002.

             (B.Sc. thesis –Modeling Ice formation on Icelandic lakes)

 

Lectures on seminars or conferences:

Bjarki Þór Kjartansson : Icelandic NFI – database structure and techniques -  COST E43 Training School Up-to-date technology for ground-based survey of national forest inventories Czech Republic, Kostelec nad Černými lesy October 9-11, 2005

 

Bjarki Þór Kjartansson : Notkun landupplýsinga og mælitækja við úttekt á íslenskum skóglendum Erindi flutt á ráðstefnu LÍSU samtakanna 30. September, 2004

             (The use of digital maps and measuring devices in the Icelandic Forest inventory)

 

Bjarki Þór Kjartansson : Tilraunir með fjarkönnun á Íslenskum skóglendum. Erindi á ráðstefnunni Þekking í þágu skógræktar  13. March, 2004.

             (Experiment on using remote sensing to map Icelandic forested areas)

 

Bjarki Þór Kjartansson : “Möguleikar landupplýsingakerfa” Erindi flutt á fundi um Íslenska skógarúttekt á Akureyri í október 2002

             (The possibilities of geographical information systems in Icelandic forestry)

 

Posters and abstracts:

Aðalsteinn Sigurgeirsson, Þröstur Eysteinsson, Bjarki Þór Kjartansson and Arnór Snorrason : Skógvæðing Íslands: Staða og horfur.  Veggspjald á Fræðaþingi Landbúnaðarins. February 2004

             (Afforestation in Iceland, status and future)

 

Guðmundur Halldórsson, Bjarki Þór Kjartansson, Ólafur Eggertsson and Halldór Sverrisson. Sitkalús – vorfaraldrar og vetrarhiti. Veggspjald á Fræðaþingi Landbúnaðarins. February 2004

             (Green spruce aphid – connection between spring epidemics (outbreak) and winter temperature)

 

Arnór Snorrason and Bjarki Þór Kjartansson:  Áætlun um nýja úttekt á skóglendum á Íslandi.  Veggspjald á Fræðaþingi Landbúnaðarins. February 2004

             (A plan for a national forest inventory in Iceland)

 

Snorrason A., Kjartansson B. Þ. Towards a general woodland and forest inventory for Iceland. Programme and Abstracts. 5^th plenary meeting of COST E21: “The role of forest for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions”, Tessaloniki, Greece, 26-28 November 2003. p. 41. Edited by K. Radoglou, NAGREF-Forest Research Institutue - Editions. Vassilka 57006, Thessaloniki, Greece. 71 pp.

 

Are there any forests in Iceland from the time of settlement? -Answer to the Icelandic Web of Science. See www.visindavefur.is/

 

Teaching:

GIS II (Advanced GIS) - project based masters course in the University of Iceland. Teaching, technical assistance and moral support for students. Spring semester 2005 and 2006. Contact Dr. Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir

 

GIS I (basic course) – practical part of GIS course – in the University of Iceland spring semester 2006. Contact Dr. Guðrún Gísladóttir

 

Forestry planning (GIS~part) – Lectures and project course in the Icelandic Agricultural University autumn semester 2005 and spring semester 2006. Contact Professor Bjarni D. Sigurðsson

 

Introduction to forestry planning a GIS point of view a lecture and practical training in the University of Akureyri (in northern Iceland). Contact Mr. Tom Barry

 

Two day course in ArcGIS for the forestry sector in Iceland. Concepts and procedures for using digital maps for forestry planning and reporting. Course held on two occasions in 2003. Contact Mr. Jón Loftsson (Head of the Icelandic Forest Service)

 

Member of field crews:

Microbiological fauna in “prehistoric” soils in Iceland. Search for soils that recently have come up from beneath glaciers. Project leader: Dr. Graeme Paton Soil scientist from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Trace elements in precipitation. Sampling recently precipitated snow from Langjökull glacier for trace element analysis. Project leader: Dr. Sigurður Reynir Gíslason, Institute of Earth Science ~ University of Iceland.

 

Remote sensing of sea ice in the channel between Iceland and Greenland and north of Iceland. Ground truth - Numerous hours of flying with the Icelandic Coastguard along the ice front. Project leader: Dr. Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir University of Iceland.

 

Other things worth mentioning:

Member of COST action E43 the harmonization of national forest inventories in Europe. Member of management committee on behalf of Iceland. Until September 2006.

Member of the organization of Geographical Information for all in Iceland on behalf of the Icelandic forestry service. Until September 2006.

 

Member of the board in the Geographical Society of Iceland, since April 2003.

 

Assistant to numerous students with GIS-work related to thesis and projects within Geography, Geology, Biology, Geophysics, Archeology and Forestry.

Bjarki Þór Kjartansson

PhD student in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis