Congratulations to Axel Sjöqvist on a successful PhD dissertation on the 10th of December 2021 at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Axel's PhD thesis is entitled "Ample Rare Elements - A Geochemical Anomaly in the Earth's Crust at Norra Kärr". His opponent was Thomas Find
Somewhat unexpected, Gothenburg has been covered in a snowy landscape for more than a week, and quite a lot of it. Really pretty in my mind, but causing problems to traffic as could be expected. Luckily, Erik is only 5-10 minutes walk from work and
Written by Erik Sturkell In November I traveled to Spain to work with impact-colleague Jens Ormö. During the first two weeks we worked in Madrid at his impact laboratory. The last week was spent in the field in southern Spain (Andalusia) studying different types of breccia.
Our British colleague, Paul Seaman from the Ikka research project stopped by for a visit in Gothenburg after working on a ship outside the coast of Faxe Ladeplads in Denmark. As Paul lives with his family in Scotland, I took him to Tjolöholm castle south
Text by Erik Sturkell, live from Spain. Photo above is of the volcano Mount Saint Helens in the US, photo taken by Erik Sturkell. --- Thanks to our work on changes in geochemical composition of groundwater in Iceland and the publication Skelton et al. (2019), I got
There are several news items from the Ikka Project this week: Great news from Erik! He received funding from Carl Tryggers Stiftelse in Sweden for our IKKA expedition 2021. This is most welcome funding as the expedition became much more expensive than planned due to corona
Oceanographer Bengt Liljebladh and I went to inspect the new research vessel R/V Skagerak last Friday at Nya Varvet, Gothenburg. She has recently been commissioned to duty at the University of Gothenburg, and Friday was 'open house' where anyone interested was allowed aboard to visit
Last Friday was the official day of Professor inauguration for Peter Stougaard and other newly-appointed professors at Aarhus University, Risø. Peter is a microbiologist working on the IKKA project and been leading several expeditions to Ikka Fjord in Greenland since 2007. Now appointed Professor in
It was finally possible to travel east to Åbo in Finland again. The Erasmus cooperation with Åbo Akademi could be re-activated. The two-weeks course “Introduction to Geophysics” has become more and more popular with time and attract students from the Finish university “Turun yliopisto”, too.
With Halloween, Thanksgiving, All Saints' and All Souls' Day coming up, we fondly remember our stay in Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, where our landlord and -lady Bonnie and Pete, did a fantastic job at decorating their house for this time of year. Here below is a