Explorers Festival

THURSDAY November 17
Geology field trip

FRIDAY November 18

09:00 to 10:00 Breakfast

10:00 to 11:00 Visit to Ocean Missions

11:00 to 12:30 Húsavík Mountain hiking with Jeff and Orly

12:30 Lunch

17:00 to 17:30 Guillaume Le Gentil, a French astronomer and explorer from the 18th century
Leonardo Piccione from the Exploration Museum

17:30 to 17:45 Antartica Unlimited: 2.000km leading to the impossible
Francesco Perini from The Exploration Museum

18:00 Dinner

19:00 Explorers Film Festival
– Big bang, the call of origins (Dominique Regueme, France) 51 minutes
– Wrought (Joel Penner, Anna Sigrithur, Canada) 19 minutes
– To live, to sail (Lana Šarić, Croatia) 40 minutes.

SATURDAY November 19

8:30 to 9:00 Space policy and politics
Thor Fanndal from Space Iceland

9:00 to 9:40 Copernicus in Iceland
Gunnar Haukur Kristinsson from the National Land Survey of Iceland

9:40 to 10:20 Promoting use of Copernicus in Iceland
Alfa Björnsdóttir from Space Iceland

10:20 to 11:00 Digital twin simulation
Moya Crawford

11:00 to 11:40 Actionable environmental data 
Steph Matti from Ecosophy

11:40 to 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 to 13:30 Optimizing data collection
Tryggvi Stefánsson from Svarmi

13:30 to 14:10 Fish from Space
Björn Erlingsson from Space Iceland

14:30 Geospace Group III Presentations

14:35-14:50- Sophia

14:50-15:05- Patrik

15:05-15:20- Adriana

15:20-15:35- Christpher

15:35-15:50- Jahnavi

18:30 Dinner

  • Jeff Blumenfeld: Expedition News Live!
  • Tira Shubart: How has space exploration benefited Earth?
  • The Leif Erikson Awards from Exploration

20:15 Visit to Geosea

SUNDAY November 20
Geology field trip