This year ARRKOM is composed of Icelandic students and teacher at the university of Akureyri, capital of Northern Iceland. Some members are rather new in NSU and others with years of experience, which has been challenging but mostly fun and very instructive.

 

Ingibjörg Elín Halldórsdóttir is the chairperson for this year summer session. She is a student at the university of  Akureyri and holds a position as a projectmanager for youth resarch at the Research center  of prevention at the  University of Akureyri.

 

 

Þórný Barðadóttir is in charge of the Summer Session’s budget this year. She is a MA student in Media Studies, currently looking into how the Icelandic media has introduced Iceland’s position in the Arctic.

 

 

Ágúst Þór Árnason is lecturing law at the University of Akureyri and the director of the Polar Law Institute. Ágúst has been periodically active in NSU´s winter and summer sessions since 1993 and was a member of ARRKOM when NSU had its summer session at Nesjavellir in 1995. Years of prior participation in NSU has automatically made him contact person and consultant to other Arrkom members about NSU procedures.

 

 

Ásta Júlía is a student at the University of Akureyri and a sheep farmer. She is in charge of this year excursions and with help from the great people of Skagafjörður and Siglufjörður she has put together the excursions packages that we will offer you this year

 

 

Jóhann Ásmundsson is in charge of domestic travel arrangement for this year summer session (NSU BUS). He is a MA student in Polar Law and has advised on all matters relating to his field of study during the NSU 2014 preparation.

 

 

Journalists

Anssi Hynynen acts as an editor-in-chief for this year’s newspaper. He belongs to a very exclusive – some would say endangered – species of  Talkative Finns. Watch your tongue in his presence: anything you say can and will be used against you in the “Heard in the Bar” -section of  the newspaper.

 

 

 

Ari Brynjólfsson is a self-proclaimed Photoshop guru and media student at the University of Akureyri. In the summertime he works as a tour guide but only when he hurts himself mountain climbing. At Sauðárkrókur you can expect to see him nosing around with a camera dressed like a sheep. 

 

 

 

 

 

Halla Mjöll Stefánsdóttir is a 23 year old student at the univeristy of Akureyri. She studies journalism and media and likes it a lot. Halla comes from Skagafjörður and grew up in Sauðárkrókur, so she knows the town very well. If you have any questions about Sauðárkókur or his vicinity, by all means ask Halla for basic informations.

 

 

 

Helgi Freyr Hafþórsson is studying journalism and media at the University of Akureyri and is the tech support for this site. Some might call him webmaster but he prefers to be called Helgi.