With the beautiful Ledreborg Castle as setting, Jörfi and I participated in the very fun and very wet K9 Biathlon competition in the class of 5 km WALK. However, Jörfi decided she would rather run most of the way. To be honest, we skipped some
Featured photo by Uli Kunz, SUBMARIS 2024 The Greenland research portal 'Arctic Hub' has published an article about our IKKA project in three languages; Greenlandic, Danish, and English. At the same time, they feature the underwater videos made by Uli Kunz from last summer's fieldwork in
Erik together with two of his colleagues Thomas Zack and Peter Keleman, and two BSc students from the University of Gothenburg went on a B and C granite excursion in the glorious weather this past Tuesday. They first went to a locality at Lindome and
Photo credit: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS 2024 For some reason, the message hadn't come across to us that Aage V. Jensens Fond in Denmark (https://www.avjf.dk/avjnf/) had granted us funding to invest in data loggers for measuring temperature and salinity among the ikaite columns in Ikka Fjord, SW
Our Ikka-colleague Lina Rasmusson took part in the International Seaweed Symposium 2025 in Canada earlier this month presenting the biological results of our NAPA-project “The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic”. The main focus has been to compare the
Erik, I and the dogs went to the old town of Lödöse to inspect the sites where some of Erik's students have performed geophysical studies of the monastery hill and below the castle hill. They did this work for their Masters' studies at the University
The Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq has interviewed CEO Erik Trampe (see photo above by Gabrielle) about the Ikkaton - Climate Solutions company and the possibilities to install a Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) facility in Greenland: https://www.sermitsiaq.ag/samfund/co2-til-produktion/2231717 It sounds very promising, and Erik Trampe and
Since September last year, I have been asked on four different occasions to give a popular science talk on the Greenland minerals, cryolite and ikaite. Both of these minerals originate from the same area in Southwest Greenland. Cryolite was mined in the town of Ivittuut
by Erik Sturkell The annual meeting for the Geological Society 2025 in Skövde On Friday the 9th of May, the Geological Society had its annual meeting. In the afternoon, after the meeting, we had a mini conference about geo-learning, including university didactics, outreach, and more. At the end of
Time to present the participants of the IKKA expedition 2025 heading to Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland in June 2025. We are six scientists this year plus Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk aiding us again. There will be three different research projects covered this year of