Cover photo by Florian Huber, SUBMARIS 2025 ------------ Thanks to IKKA colleague and diver, Florian Huber from the company SUBMARIS, we got in contact with journalist Alex Rühle from Süddeutsche Zeitung - a well-known and well-established newspaper from Bayern in Germany. This resulted in a very nice
On a recent business trip to Helsinki in Finland on behalf of the Ikkaton company together with CEO Erik Trampe, I managed to see a bit more of the Finnish capital and its grand Stockmann warehouse. It is supposedly founded by a Stockmann family member
Photos & text by Erik Sturkell In November 2025, the final part of the EU-funded project Nexus monARC took place. The project ended on Santorini and Milos with an excursion. Bengt Liljebladh and I decided to take part in the excursion and therefore travelled to Greece.
Erik was invited by archeologist Anna Nyqvist Thorsson to Husaby Church near Skara in the Götene municipality. His task was to inspect the sandstone used in the construction of the church and the two impressive tombs lined up at each side at the entrance to
This is a double obituary for my uncle Guido Stockmann and his life-long partner Ricardo Regazzoni, who sadly both passed away this year. Ricardo in end May, and Guido on the 23rd of October in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Both had deteriorating health but Ricardo's death
Greenland newspaper Sermitsiaq has published a new article about our Ikka project. This time, a coverage of the fieldwork in Ikka Fjord this summer and what we hope to achieve with the dataloggers we deployed on three ikaite columns. The goal is to have long-term
Last week of August was spent visiting our friend Paul Seaman and family in Scotland and going with Paul on a short trip down to the City of York in northern England. It's long been on our wish list to visit Paul and his wife
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell I arrived in Iceland on the 30th of July around two weeks after the start of the 16th of July volcanic eruption on Reykjanes. This eruption fissure followed the Sundhnukar crater row, and the lava flow didn’t threaten anything important, but the
A couple, Pär Caldenby and wife, are living in the same neighbourhood Landala Egnahem as us and are the lucky owners of the prestigious and award-winning Swedish whisky distillery called 'Smögen' - read more here: https://smogenwhisky.se and https://www.whisky.nu/smogen-whisky/. As we often meet them on our
Photo cover: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS, 2025 We have returned from a really successful field season in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. First of all, we were extremely lucky with the weather, which meant we could complete our most important task within the first three days. Namely, the