Markarfljót and Gigjökull

I´ve been helping out on the Geography, University of Edinburgh undergraduate fieldtrip. Students study palaeo-landscape reconstruction, ecological processes, geomorphology and glaciology, among other subjects. The field area, usually along the southern margin of the Markarfljót valley in southern Iceland in an area called Langanes and on two outlet glaciers from the ice-capped volcano Eyjafjallajökull, Steinsholtsjökull and Gigjökull, is one of my favourite places in Iceland. You can read about past flood events in this area, associated in some cases with eruptions of the volcano Katla, on my research page.