INLNA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - ONLINE
SATURDAY, MAY 4TH, 2024
5 PM ICELAND (GMT) / 2 PM ADT/ 1 PM EDT / 12 PM CT / 11 AM MT / 10 AM PT
Last year INLNA had a wonderful live in-person reunion hosted by the INLNA member club, the Leif Eiriksson Icelandic Club of Calgary. We met beneath the beautiful Banff Mountains for a marvellous program and joyful celebration. Next year, in 2025, we will meet to celebrate again in the heart of New Iceland, at Gimli, Manitoba, in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of New Iceland. Many of our Icelandic communities across North America are celebrating or getting ready to celebrate landmark anniversaries along with Gimli. The INLNA looks forward to bringing us all together in Gimli in May 2025.
This year, the online INLNA AGM will open with an address by the Icelandic Ambassador to Canada, Hlynur Guðjónsson and other dignitaries. We have an exciting webinar on ‘Recent Volcanic Activity in Iceland: Centuries of Unrest Ahead’. There will be reports from the INLNA President, VP and Treasurer. We will also hear more details from the Gimli Icelandic-Canadian Club on their exciting plans for the 2025 INLNA Convention.
Please join the INLNA on Zoom on Saturday, May 4th, at 12 PM Central Time. Please remember to adjust to your local time.
Many of our member clubs plan to gather locally to make this a hybrid social gathering of INLNA members. Kaffi and kleinur in the west, brunch in the east, cocktails in Iceland – taking the INLNA AGM as an opportunity to connect in-person with local club members and, at the same time, online with members from across North America and Iceland. This way, we can genuinely embody and keep alive the INLNA motto: Strong is the Bond/Römm er sú taug.
As part of the AGM program, INLNA has invited geological experts to speak on the recent volcanic activity we have all been watching on the news. Here is some information:
Recent Volcanic Activity in Iceland: Centuries of Unrest Ahead
Þorvaldur Þórðarson, Professor in Volcanology and Petrology, University of Iceland
Hálldor Geirsson, Associate Professor Geophysics, Faculty of Earth Sciences, U of Iceland
Erik Schoonover, Ph D candidate Penn State University, Snorri Alumni
Moderator: Snorri Alumni Madeline Stapleton
Þorvaldur Þórðarson is a Professor in Volcanology and Petrology at the University of Iceland, who is an expert on ‘hot spot’ volcanism and magmatism, particularly in Iceland, coupled with across-the-board experience in research on ancient and active volcanic systems. He has been on the news quite a lot talking about the events and will join us online, speaking about the up-to-the-minute developments on the Reykjanes peninsula eruptions.
Professor Hálldor Geirsson is an associate professor in Geophysics at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, specializing in volcanology and crustal deformation.
The Icelandic professors will converse with Snorri alum Erik Schoonover, a PhD candidate in Geosciences at Penn State University. His expertise is in the fundamentals of volcanos, and he is keenly interested in everything related to Icelandic geology.
Madeline Stapleton, a Snorri alumni, is a member of the Icelandic-Canadian Club of Toronto and editor of the ICCT newsletter, The Falkinn. She has a degree in geology and has written several articles for the Falkinn on the current volcanic activity in Iceland.
AGENDA
All times in Central Daylight Time
12 - 12:30 p.m. — Opening Celebration and Greetings
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. — Presentation: Recent Volcanic Activity in Iceland
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. — Annual General Meeting of the INLNA
2:30 p.m. — Upcoming 2025 Convention hosted by the Gimli Icelandic Canadian Club and Closing Remarks
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