Facilities at our Verið Research station
   Library, offices and meeting rooms
Meeting room
Break room
Library
Seminar room
   The laboratory
This lab has been mainly used for sampling fish (from egg and embryo stage up to adult fish) and ecological studies of aquatic organisms:
  • Classic phenological measurements: body weight, length, maturity, aging of fish
  • Tissue sampling for DNA and RNA analysis, stable isotope analysis
  • Analysis of shape using geometrics morphometrics (landmarks)
  • Water samples for eDNA
  • Diet composition of fishes from fixed and in vivo samples
  • Anatomy of the brain and brain development
  • Staining and characterization of ossification and cartilages in fishes
  • Feces analysis
  • Gross energy measurements using calorimetry
  • Tagging of fishes (Visible Implant Elastomer tag and PIT-tags)
  • Blood sampling on small fishes
  • Histology
  • Measurements of oxygen consumption through respirometry
Other than fish there has been work done on identifying invertebrates from fresh water systems, looking snail parasites and ammonia measurements for the aquaculture facilities. The lab has been running practices for aquaculture and international students.

Our newly molecular lab has facilities for:
  • Isolating and quantifying DNA 
  • Running PCR 
  • Gel electrophoresis
It is currently being used for isolating DNA from thousands of wild-caught stickleback as well as genetically assigning sex of charr in the breeding program.
Ecology lab
Molecular lab
   The station
   Field work
Fish sampling inside a lava cave in Mývatn
Stream enclosures experiment
Fish sampling in a stream
Fish processing next by a lava cave in Mývatn
Where we are located