Iceland 2008!

Newman students packed their bags and jetted to Iceland for the experience of a lifetime.

A group of fifty staff and students; from Geography, Environmental Science and Biology; set off from Glasgow and arrived in Reykjavik to a temperature of -2O°C. While there, they carried out fieldwork to support their studies.

Among the many sites they visited was the ‘Golden Circle’, a collection of natural and historical sites including the Thingvellir National Park (birthplace of the Icelandic parliament and where the rift between the Eurasion and American tectonic plates occurs), the geysers of Geysir, the Kerith volcano crater and the Gulfoss and Selandjfos waterfalls.

The group also experienced a simulation of an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, saw some spectacular basalt columns, visited the Ice Lagoon and went caving down a lava tube. Their last day was spent taking in the thermally heated and therapeutic waters and silica mud of the Blue Lagoon as well as exploring Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik.

The students set up and updated their own “blog site”; to keep friends and family members informed of what they were doing during their five day stay; updating it daily with accounts of their activities and many fantastic photographs.

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