My former PhD supervisor Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (Siggi) was awarded the Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland in early January 2020. The reason for awarding him was his "scientific achievements within the field of geochemistry and pioneering of carbon sequestration techniques in
Professor Valentin Troll (Val) from Uppsala University in Sweden came to Iceland earlier in the month to be one of the opponents for Robert Askew's PhD dissertation. Rob did great and can now call him self Dr. Askew. This happy occasion came me the possibility
Our New Year was spent in Skorradalur near Borganes. We have one dog that is terrified of fireworks and knowing from last year how crazy Icelanders are about shooting off fireworks, staying in Reykjavík was simply not an option. Skorradalur is a really beautiful area
In November 2019, Erik and I had a severe accident with our old Toyota Landcruiser and in many ways lucky to still be alive. We are not the first to be in an accident in Iceland due to snowy slippery roads. Quite many of our
Back to San Francisco, both for us and the AGU Fall meeting. The meeting was bigger than ever with more than 25000 participants, celebrating the centennial of AGU-100 years. This time, we only stayed for the meeting and unfortunately had no time for sightseeing, just
This was the first time the Greenland Science Week took place. It used to be called the 'Polar Day' and be helt somewhere in Denmark, but now the decision has been made to move it permanently to Nuuk in Greenland. On behalf of our research group
It is not often photographers manage to take a good photo of me, but actually our official photographer at the University of Iceland, Kristinn Ingvarsson did a really good job here in November. All staff members were offered to get new portraits for official use.
On the 2nd of November, Carl-Edvard celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday! He had arranged a reception at the Djulö manner house in Katrineholm (Fig. 1). The restaurant ‘Stadshotellet’ in downtown Katrineholm took care of the service at Djulö. At two o’clock the reception opened serving hot
I took part in the Arctic Circle Assembly for the 2nd time and compared to last year, I found the talks more interesting this year. The increasing interest in the Arctic (and maybe Trump's comments to buy Greenland) have attracted more people than ever to
On a beautiful Sunday in September I joined an excursion organized by the small interest organisation called “Granitkusten”. This trip took us to the province of Bohuslän in western Sweden. Thomas Eliasson from SGU was our excursion guide, and the remaining group consisted of Johan,