Written by Erik Sturkell The grand master of the French Rochechouart impact structure, Philippe had invited Jens and I to a CIRIR workshop (Center for International Research & Restitution on Impacts and on Rochechouart) in the town of Rochechouart on the 27th to 28th of August 2021. Five persons participated
What a challenging year to carry out fieldwork in Greenland! Despite many obstacles such as covid-19 restrictions, bad weather, (too) heavy luggage, engine failure, and technical problems on Air Greenland's Airbus, we managed to get all people to Greenland and back again with some delays.
Written by Erik Sturkell This year I had an enthusiastic volunteer in Jens from Roskilde to assist in the measurement of the crustal deformation of the volcano Askja. In the last week, all the players changed as Sveinbjörn and Chiara could not go north on the
First visitors to stay the night in our new home in Gothenburg. My mother, Marlous and aunt, Helma Stockmann came to visit me for a couple of days from Denmark and the Netherlands. We spent one day visiting the castle Tjolöholms slott south of Gothenburg.
We are very sad to learn that our good friend from London, Susan Pitts has passed away. Susan turned 80 in January and the original plan was for all of us to go to London in July to celebrate with her - in the hope
Finally the wedding we have been waiting for and longing to for more than a year. Originally scheduled for last year, but due to covid-19 postponed to July this summer. Our friends and colleagues, Barbara Irene Kleine and Edward Wayne Marshall IV (Barbara and Ed)
First leg of our fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland this summer was carried out by oceanographer Jesper Sano Højdal from HydroCharting ApS and Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk. Despite bad weather, they were able to make 78 temperature-salinity profiles from inner Ikka Fjord all the
Yesterday was the warmest day so far this summer and luckily for us, we could spent the day on Orust with our colleague Bengt and his family. Bengt is looking after one of the neighbour's house and Icelandic horses these days. Just like last time
Erik has written yet another popular science article for Geologiskt forum entitled 'Diamanter - det hårdaste inom geologin'. To translate, this time the chosen topic was diamonds, the hardest mineral on Earth. While I was teaching at the University of Iceland, one of my courses
Today was the Master's exam of Sigríður María Aðalsteinsdóttir (Sigga) at the University of Iceland. Sigga has been working with us on the IKKA project in Greenland since summer 2019, and her MS thesis is entitled 'The Low-Temperature Weathering of the Grønnedal-Íka Carbonatite-Alkaline Silicate Igneous