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
While Erik was on fieldwork in Iceland, I spent two weeks at my mother's new home in Gundsømagle, Denmark. It gave me a chance to meet a lot of friends, to socialise the puppy Jörfi, and to do some work with colleagues in Denmark. The
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell The annual research trip to the volcano Askja in the Icelandic highlands took place from the 17th to the 28th of August this year. Fieldwork this late in the summer was dictated by the possibility to combine geodesy (levelling and GPS) with
Finally, after 15 weeks of waiting we could welcome Smooth Collie Jörfi to our home. She travelled all the way from Dordrecht in the Netherlands on a long journey by car to first Denmark and then Sweden. Back home, a very curious Deli and delighted
Directly after returning from Greenland, I continued with my mother by car to the Netherlands. The main purpose was to pick up our pup 'Jörfi', but it gave us the possibility for a short family visit, too. We finally had the chance to celebrate my
A very successful field season in Ikka Fjord - not least thanks to our local collaborator Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk and beautiful sunshine during the whole period. The researchers in the field this season were geophysicist Paul Seaman from Scotland (UK), oceanographer Bengt Liljebladh from
UPDATE! A total of five articles have been published in Sermitsiaq over six weeks in May-June. The pdf of those articles can be found here in Danish and Greenlandic: Sermitsiaq week 21 - Ikait-søjlerne undersøges igen til sommer og Tysk TV vil fortælle om Ikait-søjlerneDownload Sermitsiaq week