Icelandic eruptions
When there is an eruption going on in Iceland, get your information straight from the horses’ mouths.
- Icelandic Met Office – Earthquake monitoring :: maps of earthquakes
- Icelandic Met Office – Press Releases :: news on the eruption
- Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland :: latest scientific results
- Icelandreview.com :: the local perspective
- UK Met Office :: computer predictions of plume behaviour
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- GRASS GIS :: powerful, fully-featured, open source GIS package
- gdal :: handy open source toolkit for converting and reprojecting GIS data
- Global Multi Resolution Topography data :: free topography on land and offshore
- Natural Earth :: free GIS data including borders, cities, rivers, lakes and glaciers
Other software
- Matplotlib :: extension to the open source Python programming language for plotting graphs and figures
- Numpy :: extension to the open source Python programming language for scientific calculations
- Ubuntu :: user-friendly flavour of the Linux operating system
Iceland
- Snorri’s Guesthouse :: The sleeping bag accommodation of choice for visiting geologists
