Heimasíða Helga Arnars Alfreðssonar
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HELGI ARNAR ALFREÐSSON
Geochemist, PhD
(Sep. 2020)

Origin  Born 9th July 1984, Sauðárkrókur, N-Iceland.
Wife Júlía Katrín Björke, geochemist
Children  Halldór, born 2007, Alfreð Vilhelm, born 2014 and Viktoría, born 2017.

EDUCATION / MENNTUN

2015  PhD degree in geology/geochemistry at the University of Iceland
2007  B.Sc. degree in geology at the University of Iceland

CAREER / STARFSFERILL

2018  Board member of the School- and social-system committee of Skútustaðahreppur
2013  Consultant in geochemistry and co-owner of Geochemý ehf.
2011  Academic visitor at the Dep. of Earth Science, Oxford University.
2007  Part time borehole geologist at the Iceland GeoSurvey.
2006  Part time assistant driller at the Iceland Drilling company.

FIELD WORK EXPERIENCE / VINNA Í FELTI

2017  Nutrient and groundwater monitoring at lake Mývatn, N-Iceland.
2014  Field sampling during the Holuhraun eruption 2014.
2013  Hight temperature well sampling for gases, steam and brine chemistry.
2013  High temperature well monitoring for tracers, including PFTs, NDS, methanol and ethanol.
2010  Field work during a fissure eruption volcanism - Fimmvörðuháls 2010; and a sub-glacial volcanism - Eyjafjallajökull 2010, incl. sampling of ash and contaminated surface waters and glacial outburst floods.
2010-2011  Construction and testing of a downhole sampler for CO2 rich fluids and tracers for the CarbFix project, Hellisheidi, SW-Iceland
2008-2011  Low temperature well-head monitoring of aqueous chemistry for the CarbFix project, Hellisheidi, SW-Iceland.

TEACHING / KENNSLA

2010-2011  Teaching undergraduate students in geochemistry at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Uni. of Iceland, daily operation and maintenance of ICP-OES.
2009  Assistant teacher in a field sampling short course in aqueous geochemistry during the International conference on CO2 sequestration processes in Reykjavik, Iceland.

LABORATORY EXPERIENCE / REYNSLA Á RANNSÓKNARSTOFU


  • X-ray Diffraction analysis
  • X-ray Fluorescence analysis
  • Ion cromatography (preparation and analysis)
  • Gas chromatography (sampling, preparation and analysis).
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma analysis (including prep., analysis, and machine maintenance).
  • Isotopic geochemistry (sampling, preparation, analysis).

COMPUTER SKILLS / TÖLVUKUNNÁTTA

  • Word processing: Microsoft Word, -Excel, -PowerPoint, Open Office, etc.
  • Graphical processing: Adobe Photoshop, -Dreamweaver, -Illustrator, -InDesign, -Flash, Sigma Plot, Microsoft Paint.
  • Aqueous geochemical modelling: USGS PhreeqC program, and Iceland GeoSurvey's WATCH program.
  • Basics in encodings: i.e. HTML, XML.

SOCIETIES / FAGFÉLÖG

  • The European Association for Geochemistry
  • Jarðfræðafélag Íslands
  • Jöklarannsóknafélag Íslands (JÖRFÍ)

OTHER / ANNAÐ

2017  Member of the committee for school system policy at Skútustaðahreppur
2008-2009  President of FOLDA, Society of Graduate Students in Earth Sciences, University of Iceland
2001  Iceland Driving license, category B. / Ökuréttindi, flokki B.



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