Education
B.S. degree in biology, University of Iceland, 1973
One year postgraduate studies, Diploma in ecology,
University of Iceland, 1973
Ph.D. University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978
Universitetet i Lund,
Ekologiska Avdelingen (University of Lund, Ecology
Department), October 1974: course in interactions
between lotic and terrestrial environment.
Employment
Professor of limnology, University of Iceland,
Department of Biology from 1988
Senior lecturer in Limnology, University of Iceland,
Department of Biology. 1982-87
Lecturer in Limnology, University of Iceland,
Department of Biology. 1977-1981
Scientific
Societies and awards
Vísindafélag Íslendinga - Societas Scientiarum Islandica
from
1999
Det Kongelige Videnskabernes Selskab – The Royal Danish
Academy of Sciences and Letters from 2002
Fellow Royal Enotomological Society (London)
Societas Internationalis Limnoligie
(SIL)
Freshwater Biological Association
(Life member)
North American Benthological Society
(NABS)
Nordic
Benthological Society
-
Next symposium in Tartu,
Estonia 7-10 September 2009.
NHF Large Prize 2000 (Nordisk
Hydrologisk Forening Store Pris), Uppsala
29 June 2000.
Visiting
scholar
Johann
Wolfgang von Goete Universität, Zoologische
Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1979 and 1980, 4
months.
Freshwater
Biological Association, England, 1983, 2 months.
Universtät
Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, 1986, 3 months.
University of
Sydney, Department of Medical Entomology, Australia,1991-2
og 1994, 11 months.
University of
California, Department of Ecology, Evolution and
Marine Biology, 2002-2003, 11 months.
University
of Auckland, School of Geography and Environmental
Science 2006 (4 months)
Administration
Chairman of the
Professors Union
of State Universities 2007-9 Dean of the Faculty of Science 1999-2001.
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science. 1997-1999:
Chairman of the Department of Biology, University of
Iceland 1980-1983.
Member of the Oikos publication board (Nordiska Föreningen
Oikos publiceringstiftelse) from 1986
Managing director of the Institute of Biology,
University of Iceland. 1987-1999
Councillor of the Nature Conservation Council.
1987-2000
Icelandic reprentative (head of delegation) for the
Convention of Wetlands of International Importance,
especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar). 1987-1996
Chairman of the Mývatn Research Station. 1988-2004
On the board of Nordic Ecological Society Oikos.1991-:
vice-chairman 1994-1995, chairman 1996-1997.
On the board of
Nordic
Benthological Society, 1994-: secretary from 1997.
Ongoing
research projects
1. Eurolimpacs - Intergrated study on climate change.
2.
ForStream - Forest stream research 3.
Monitoring of midges in the Lake Mývatn and the
River Laxá
4. Ecology of the brown trout in the River Laxá.
5. Origin of the Trichoptera fauna of Iceland
Recent
publications
2009 J.
E. Brittain, G. M. Gíslason, V. I. Ponomarev, J. Bogen,
S. Brørs, A. J. Jensen, L. G. Khokhlova S. K. Kochanov,
A. V Kokovkin, K. Melvold, J. S. Ólafsson, L. E.
Pettersson and A. S. Stenina. 9. Arctic rivers. Pp
337-379 in Rivers of Europe (eds. Klement
Tockner, Urs Uelinger, Christopher T. Robinson),
Elsevier, Amsterdam.
2009 Lísa Anne Libungan, Gisli Már Gíslason & Tryggvi
Þórðarson. Folafluga – nýtt skordýr á Íslandi (English
summary: The European crane fly (Tipula paludosa)
recorded in Iceland). Náttúrufræðinguinn 77:107-112.
2008 Gísli Már Gíslason og Sigurður
Guðjónsson. Vatnalíffræðirannsóknir á Íslandi og
Veiðimálastofnun. Landsamband
veiðifélaga 50 ára afmælisrit 1958-2008
(ritsjóri Snorri Þorsteinsson): 184-194.
2008 Gísli Már Gíslason og Sigurður
Guðjónsson. Vatnalíffræðirannsóknir á Íslandi og
Veiðimálastofnun. Landsamband
veiðifélaga 50 ára afmælisrit 1958-2008
(ritsjóri Snorri Þorsteinsson): 184-194.
2008 Lisa Libungan, Gísli Már Gíslason & Tryggvi
Þórðarson. Varmasmiður – stærsta bjalla á Íslandi
(English summary: The ground beetle Carabus nemoralis –
biggest beetle in Iceland). Náttúrufræðingurinn
77:15-18.
2008 Helena Marta Stefánsdóttir,
Karólína Einarsdóttir , Berglind Orradóttir,
Brynhildur Bjarnadóttir, Edda S. Oddsdóttir, Franklín
Georgsson, Freysteinn Sigurðsson, Gintare Medelyte,
Gísli Már Gíslason, Guðmundur Halldórsson, Hlynur
Óskarsson, Hreinn Óskarsson, Jón S. Ólafsson, Julia
Broska, Nikolai Friberg, Sigurður Guðjónsson, Bjarni D.
Sigurðsson.
SkógVatn – kynning á
rannsóknarverkefni um áhrif skógræktar og landgræðslu á
vatnavistkerfi. Fræðaþing landbúnaðarins 5:
515-519.
2007 Jón S. Ólafsson, Gísli Már Gíslason, Hilmar J.
Malmquist, Sigurður Reynir Gíslason og Þórólfur
Antonsson. Vötn og vatnasvið á höfuðborgarsvæðinu –
yfirlit. Málþing Vötn og vatnasvið á höfuðborgarsvæðinu
– ástand og horfur. Reykjavík, 7-12.
2007. Gísli Már Gíslason, Jón S.Ólafsdóttir og Ingi
Rúnar Jónsson. Lífríki stöðuvatna á höfuðborgarsvæðinu:
Gróður og smádýr. Reykjavík,59-61.
2007. Hilmar J. Malmquist & Gísli Már Gíslason. Smádýr
og þörungar í ám og lækjum. Málþing Vötn og vatnasvið á
höfuðborgarsvæðinu – ástand og horfur.. Reykjavík,67-70.
2006 Iris Hansen, Gísli Már Gíslason
& Jón S. Ólafsson. Diatoms in glacial and alpine rivers in
central Iceland.
Verhandlungen der
Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte
Limnologie
29:1271-1274.
2006. Stefán Már
Stefánsson, Jón S. Ólafsson, Hákon Aðalsteinsson &
Gísli Már Gíslason.
The structure of
chironomid and simuliid communities in direct run-off
rivers on Tertiary basalt bedrock in Iceland.
Verhandlungen der
Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte
Limnologie
29: 2015-2020.
2006 Árni Einarsson, Arnthor Gardarsson, Gísli Már
Gíslason & Guðni Guðbergsson.
Populations of ducks and trout of the River Laxá, Iceland,
in relation to variation in food resources. Hydrobiologia
567: 183-194.
2006
Jón S. Ólafsson, Hákon Aðalsteinsson Gísli Már
Gíslason Vistfræði vatnsfalla á Íslandi,
flokkun með tilliti til rykmýs.. Orkan og samfélagið – vistvæn
gæði.bls. 218-223. Samorka, Reykjavík.
2005. Gísli Már
Gíslason.
The origin
of the freshwater fauna of the North-Atlantic Islands.
Present distribution in relation to climate and possible
migration routes. Verhandlungen der Internationale
Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie
29:198-203.
Bibliography
(almost complete) Teaching
LÍF 510M Limnology
LÍF 633G Entomology
LÍF 633F Entomology
LÍF 31G Ecology
LÍF 214G Zoology - Invertebrates
LÍF 505M Ecology B
LÍF 604G Field course in botany, zoology and ecology
LÍF 516M Environmental Science
FER 102G Natural Science
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