Icelandic Oikos Society News

From the 21st to the 25th of July 2025, I organized the Summer School in Model-based Ordination at Frich’s Basecamp in Hjerkinn. In total 41 people applied of which 26 attended the summer school.

The Eurasian Grassland Conference is an annual event organized by the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group EDGG, with support from the International Association of Vegetation Science IAVS, and this was the twentieth time that such a conference has been held. This year the Nordic Society Oikos was our main sponsor.

The 4th meeting for Protistology in the Nordics was held for the first time in Finland on 12-13 May 2025 in Jyväskylä.

Save the date! The next meeting of the Icelandic Ecological Society will be on May 23, 2025.

This 2 day hackathon will take place November 24-25, 2023 in Mývatn and online, to tackle invasive plant species in Iceland.

Save the date! The next annual meeting of the Icelandic Ecological Society will be on March 24-26, 2023 and will take place in Laugarbakki. More details will be announced soon.

The Nordic Society Oikos welcomes Johan Nilsson as the new Executive Director of the NSO office.

Nordic Oikos 2022 (Ecology and Evolution for a Changing World) was held in Aarhus, Denmark, on June 7–10, 2022.

A student-initiated project at the University of Akureyri is looking for participants in a survey to gather data on awareness and opinions regarding waste water treatment in Iceland to inform decision makers.

Save the date! The next annual conference of the Icelandic Ecological Society will take place on April 28, 2022.