New information about the pre-tour to Hornstrandir !
 
Those who want to take the tour will be picked up at Isafjordur airport on Thursday 10th of October at 9.35 by a bus. The bus takes us to Bolungarvik harbour (17km) where we take a ferry to the remote Hornstrandir Nature Reserve to see the Arctic Foxes (app. 1,5 hours). After the tour we will go by a bus to Sudavik to visit the Arctic Fox Centre (37km) where we also get some refreshments. Borea Adventures will take care of the post-con tour and make sure that you get to the conference place (Hotel Nupur) before too late on Thursday night.

Brief schedule:
On Friday the 11th of October at 10.00 the conference will be set formally and the program will be as usual, with plenary talks and shorter lectures on the various fields of arctic fox research. We will take lunch around 12.00 and coffee break at 15.00 and end the sessions of the day at 17.30. Dinner will be served at 19.00.
On Saturday, the 12th the program begins again at 10.00 and ends at 17.00, including poster sessions, lunch and coffee break. Dinner will be on a finer status since we will honor the memory of our friend and mentor, late Prof. Pall Hersteinsson specially.

On Sunday, the 13th we dedicate the day to late Prof. Pall Hersteinsson´s memory and introduce various projects he took part in regarding arctic fox studies. The full program for Sunday will be announced later and everyone will be asked contribute something to this part of the confernce. 

The conference ends with a summary and discussions of the last days work and termination at 17.00 on Sunday.

Note:
All bookings for the conference, pre and post activities and informations will be taken care of by West-tours.
contact information, booking and registration will be set out in the coming days. 

see you in October
Ester & the other foxes

For information:

Accomodation at Hotel Nupur is 250/289 Euros per person - including bus rides to and from Isafjordur airport (one extra night on special offer for those who want to stay longer).

Rental cars are available at Keflavik Airport, Reykjavik Airport and Isafjordur Airport. Here you can see the easiest way to drive to The Arctic Fox Centre in Sudavik: www.ja.is

The conference tour will be a pre-tour, during the first day of the conference: Thursday 10th of October !
We expect to visit the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve by boat - it will be close to appr. 300 Euros per person. We will arrange the tour so that arctic foxes can be spotted easily, this will have to be arranged when we have studied the animals in the Nature Reserve during the summer ...
 

The International Conference on Arctic Fox Biology will be held in Westfjords
October 11th to 13th 2013.

At the conference, we will honour the memory of late Prof. Pall Hersteinsson, who sadly passed away on October 11th 2011.

Following the Conference, a wildlife tour to Hornstrandir Nature Reserve is provided. Limited nr. of visitors will be able to attain the tour. If weather conditions prevent us to sail to the Nature Reserve, another tour will be organized - in order to be able to see some arctic foxes in natural surroundings. Note that 80% of arctic foxes in Westfjords are of the blue color morph and 20% of the white morph. 

More information about the conference and the post-con tours will be set out soon

here are photos from the last AF conference, held in Sweden 2009