University Centre of the Westfjords offers two cutting-edge master's programs on Coastal and Marine
Coastal Studies Master‘s Degree Programs in Iceland
University Centre of the Westfjords in Iceland offers two cutting-edge master's programs on Coastal and Marine issues, taught in English. Both programs are multidisciplinary and therefore open to students with diverse academic backgrounds:
• MA in Coastal Communities and Regional Development
• MRM in Coastal and Marine Management
The programs
08/06/2026
Director Catherine Chambers has written her Captain's log for may - check it out below.
Captain’s Log: May 2026 Have you noticed a lot of crab-related art around town lately? That’s because of UW! As part of the Púkinn children’s art festival, we organized a project
05/06/2026
UW representation at UArctic Congress in Torshavn, Faroe Islands, last week.
UW representation at UArctic Congress in Torshavn, Faroe Islands A very fruitful conference of UArctic (University of the Arctic) took place last week, where 1,400 participants from all over the world met in the Faroe
04/06/2026
Some of our students have been in Húsavík lately, taking the course Studying Marine Mammals in the Wild, that is held in partnership between UW and Rannsóknasetur Háskóla Íslands á Húsavík / Húsavík Research Centre
22/05/2026
Our wonderful interns, Theresa and Julie, wrote about life in Ísafjörður and their stay here at UW. We miss them already!
Life Beyond the Fjords: Finding Adventure and Community in Ísafjörður Hæ Hæ, we are Theresa and Julie, two students from southern Germany. We are studying Public Administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Kehl. A
13/05/2026
The new director of UW, Dr. Catherine Chambers, writes a captains log for April (yes, she does have a small boating licence!). She intends to do this every month to keep us updated on the day to day business at UW.
Captains log - april 2026 Time flies – like when your kids grow up too fast, when you go down a rabbit hole on the internet, or when you are the new director of the University C
11/05/2026
15.05.2026 at 12:10
Lunch Lecture
In Vísindaport on May 15 at 12:10, Catherine Chambers, Director of the University Center, and Dan Govoni, avalanche risk specialist for the Met Office, will answer the question “what was it like to live in Japan”. Together with their 9 and 12 year old daughters, Cat and Dan lived in Kashiwanoha, Japan for 4 months starting last December. Read more - link in comment below⬇️
11/05/2026
Tomorrow, May 12th at 14:00, Katrin Zender will be defending her thesis: "Communicating Risk in the Remote Hornstrandir Peninsula, Iceland”. To join on zoom: https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/68382012613
08/05/2026
New paper alert! All our published papers are exciting to share, but this one hits a bit differen because it reviews 20 years of UW.
Link in comments 👇
07/05/2026
This is Sarah, she graduated from UW in 2014