Erik's father Carl-Edvard Sturkell peacefully passed away on December 8 in the afternoon at Dufvegården in Katrineholm. He was born on 2 November 1924 in Katrineholm and thus recently reached the honourable age of 98. Carl-Edvard always said he had no ambition to become 100
Det Grønlandske Selskab, roughly translated into 'The Greenland Society', invited me to give a talk about the Ikka columns in Greenland and the mineral changes we have observed to the columns. This came out nicely as we just got our MDPI Minerals article published on
First snow of the season and 7 month-old puppy Jörfi's first encounter with snow :-) She seems pretty enthusiastic as most dogs (and children). Everything becomes so pretty when covered in snowy powder. It's the perfect setting for coming in Christmas mood. Photo: Gabrielle. Early morning
Written by Erik SturkellAll photos taken by Erik Sturkell In spring 2022, I joined the board for the event “Geology Day” which takes place the second Saturday of September every year. The purpose of this event is to inform people about geology in an inspiring way
Finally, after several field seasons in Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland and a lot of analytical work, we can celebrate publication of our research results in MDPI minerals: https://doi.org/10.3390/min12111430 Here we report the mineral changes that we observe in these mineral columns. They used to be
Written by Erik Sturkell End October I went eastbound to Åbo in Finland for two weeks. The mission was to give an intensive course in geophysics for students at Åbo Akademi University and University of Turko (Turun yliopisto). Prof. Olav Eklund (Joffi) introduced me to this
Earlier in the week we went to Katrineholm to visit Erik's father Carl Edvard who is now quite old (97) and staying at an elderly home. If life and health allows it, he will turn 98 in early November - an impressive age but his
Written by Erik Sturkell The Lockne impact structure still hosts unknowns and research continues. Jens Ormö from Madrid came to Gothenburg 30th of September and stayed two nights. Early Sunday morning we drove to Lockne and it took all day. We rented a small cottage at the
This weekend, geologist Thomas Eliasson from the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU) arranged the annual Autumn excursion to the spectacular landscape of Bohuslän's granites. We met around 9:30 and we brought our two dogs with us. At age nearly 6 months, Jörfi took part in this
Autumn is here and so are all the apples and the final garden projects before it gets too late in the year. Erik and I have realised that a lot of work is needed when owning a house with a decent size of garden. All