Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The title of this post could just as well have been a Misty Merry Christmas. Can't remember when we had so much rain and misty conditions in December. The photo above is taken in
Erik and I went on a short trip to Reykjavík just to check up on our apartment and our car, and getting the chance to meet up with friends in Iceland. The volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes was still ongoing on our arrival and could
Photo above: Erik Sturkell 'shadow selfie' from his beloved Iceland and one of his favoured volcanoes Askja :-) Erik has reached an impressive number of 50 published articles in the Swedish journal 'Geologiskt forum' published by the Geological Society of Sweden: https://geologiskaforeningen.se/geologiskt_forum/ He had his first
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell In late October (20 Oct.) I traveled east to Åbo in Finland to give a two weeklong intensive course in geophysics. This was the tenth time I gave this course (first time in 2011), and its popularity has steadily been
We have a new publication in Nature Communications Earth & Environment on a method towards forecasting earthquakes in Iceland: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01852-3. This is a huge step forward in science if this method can be applied elsewhere in high-risk areas of earthquakes above magnitude 5. So far
Rushed by reports of a deteriorated health of my uncle in Amsterdam, my mother and I went to the Netherlands to visit him. However, when we arrived at his care home, he was in a quite good condition and in no way near death. Hence,
One week was spent in Jämtland, Northern Sweden in end of September in search of further evidence of a third meteorite crater in the Lockne - Tandsbyn area. This is a continuation of the field campaign that Erik and I started last autumn, and where
Photo above: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS. River running into Ikka Fjord with musk oxen on the beach, 2021 Over 27 years, we have been collecting water samples from Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland on various expeditions between 1995 and 2022. These encompass samples of springs, rivers, lakes,
Last weekend offered warm and glorious sunny weather, which gave us the chance to go on a boat trip with our friend Sture and his boat to the archipelago outside Gothenburg. The course was set for the small island Vrångö (Wrong Island as Erik likes
What a fantastic conference! Probably one of the most interesting I've ever attended. The European Mineralogical Conference 2024 was held at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in the third week of August. I went there as a convener and presenter on the carbonate session but