Elsa Gudbjorg Vilmundardottir

November 27, 1932 (age 75)

Vestmannaeyjar

Her parents were Vilmundur Guðmundsson, an engineer from Hafnarnes, Reyðarfjörður (1907-1934) and Gudrun Björnsdóttir, a seamstress (1903-1975). Vilmundardóttir graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1953. In 1958, she went to Sweden and enrolled at Stockholm University. She studied geology in 1958-1963. During her university years, she did geological fieldwork in the summers on behalf of Electricity Department, mostly though geological research of the proposed Búrfellsvirkjun hydropower plant. Her interest quickly focused on the geology of Tungnáröræfa. After completing her studies in 1963, she returned home and began working at jobs at the Electricity Department, followed by the National Energy Authority (National Education Association) of Iceland, when it was formed in 1967, working there until she retired in 2004. In 1980, an agreement was made between the National Education Association and Landsvirkjun on uniform geological mapping and was the supervisor of the project Vilmundardóttir"s research also included mapping tuff and lava north of Vatnajökull, as well as pyroclastic flows associated with prehistoric Hekla eruptions. She wrote about scientific research and was the co-author of 100 Geosites in South-Iceland.

Elsa Gudbjorg Vilmundardottir

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Background

Elsa was born in the Vestmannaeyjar.

Career

Her parents were Vilmundur Guðmundsson, an engineer from Hafnarnes, Reyðarfjörður (1907-1934) and Gudrun Björnsdóttir, a seamstress (1903-1975). Vilmundardóttir graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1953. In 1958, she went to Sweden and enrolled at Stockholm University.

She studied geology in 1958-1963.

During her university years, she did geological fieldwork in the summers on behalf of Electricity Department, mostly though geological research of the proposed Búrfellsvirkjun hydropower plant. Her interest quickly focused on the geology of Tungnáröræfa.

After completing her studies in 1963, she returned home and began working at jobs at the Electricity Department, followed by the National Energy Authority (National Education Association) of Iceland, when it was formed in 1967, working there until she retired in 2004. In 1980, an agreement was made between the National Education Association and Landsvirkjun on uniform geological mapping and was the supervisor of the project

Vilmundardóttir"s research also included mapping tuff and lava north of Vatnajökull, as well as pyroclastic flows associated with prehistoric Hekla eruptions.

She wrote about scientific research and was the co-author of 100 Geosites in South-Iceland.

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