Environmental Economics - Iceland Immersion Trip (Album 1)
Starting off the morning at Thingvellier National Park.
Taking in the view at Thingvellier National Park.
Thingvellier National Park
Students David Daugherty '19 and Isaac Wynne '19 at Thingvellier National Park.
Our leader and class professor, Christie Byun.
Nick Budler '19 and Brandon Arbuckle '19 at Thingvellier National Park.
Micah Keller '21 at the Geysir geothermal zone.
Geysir geothermal zone
This geysir, at the Geysir geothermal zone, goes off about every five minutes.
Erupting every five minutes gives plenty of options for selfies.
If you look closely the white area behind the mountains is one of Iceland's glaciers.
Gullfoss waterfall brought out many smiles and looks of amazement.
Gullfoss waterfall
Gullfoss waterfall
This is a plaque of Sigrí?ur Tómasdóttir, who was able to stop the falls from being used for a power plant and instead became a protected piece of land. Some of the students used this image of Tómasdóttir in a presentation they did earlier in the week.
Gullfoss waterfall
Icelandic horse
Students learned all about the Icelandic horse and what role they played in the history of Iceland.
Walking into the Frioheimar geothermal farm
Frioheimar geothermal farm
Learning all about what it takes to run a geothermal farm in Iceland.
Frioheimar geothermal farm
Those little specks at the top of the screen are Wabash students at crater Kerio.