Yesterday, we received prominent visitors from the Danish Embassy in Iceland. Ambassador, Eva Egesborg Hansen and her staff, Andreas Nøhr Vestergaard, Gudrun Haraldsdóttir, and practical interns Oscar and Jens came to an info meeting at our Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland. The institute
One hundred years ago (1st of September 1919) two young Swedes stood on the edge of a large caldera. This is known today as Grimsvötn and is Iceland’s currently most frequently erupting volcano. It was Erik Ygberg and Håkan Wadell who were the first ones
I travelled to the Askja volcano to perform crustal deformation measurements with GPS and levelling. We were four persons who went to Askja: Steini, Sveinbjörn, Siqi and I. Summer 2019 has been fantastic in Reykjavík. It seems that if one part of the country is
This was my first visit to the Gotland, an island outside the southeast cost of Sweden. As Erik and I already were in Stockholm, it was easy taking us to Gotland for a few days. The occasion was mainly visiting our friend Karin Lodin and
Two years after we went to Australia to meet Erik's relatives in Melbourne, Erik's half-sister Pip, husband Mal and children, Lucas, Felicity and Tom came to visit us in Iceland and in Sweden. We were really happy they decided to travel half across the world
Between the 25th and 30th of June, the Stockholm University excursion for the evening course “Earthquakes” took place in northern Iceland. The excursion had 25 students and four leaders. During the first two days the weather was fantastic, whereas the last two days it was
What an adventurous fieldwork we had in Greenland this summer! This year's research team consisted of Paul Seaman from the UK, Richard Gyllencreutz from Stockholm University, Sigríður María Aðalsteinsdóttir (Sigga) from the University of Iceland, plus Erik and I. We had a lot on our schedule
Between the 26th of May and 9th of June, the Glaciological Society of Iceland made its annual spring trip to Vatnajökull. As the interest and research projects are growing in numbers, two succeeding trips were made. Each trip consisted of about 25 persons, with a
It was my turn to become 50 this year. I had actually hoped and planned to have a big party to celebrate it. Not much to do about increasing age except accepting and embracing it. Hopefully, we all become wiser with age. Anyhow, due to an
Between the 21st and 24th of May 2019, the NORTHQUAKE 2019 took place in Húsavík. This was the 3rd International Workshop on Earthquakes in North Iceland. About 30-40 participants listened to 30 talks for two days about earthquakes, monitoring, hazard- and response scenarios. On the