Text and photos by Erik Sturkell On the last day in July, I traveled to Iceland for carrying out fieldwork around the Askja volcano. This volcano has inflated since August 2021 with nearly 70 cm until late summer 2023. The continues GPS stations indicate that uplift
Motivated by friends visiting from Denmark, we used a glorious sunny Sunday to visit Nya Älvsborgs Färstning - A Swedish fortress to keep the mean Danes from attacking Gothenburg. My 'old' sled dog friends Kjeld and Charlotte Baagø stopped by in Gothenburg for a visit
This summer with all its rainy weather has allowed me the time to read two books about volcanic eruptions. One fictional novel 'Eldarnir – Ástin og aðrar hamfarir' by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir from Iceland, and one biography 'Surviving Galeras' by the American volcanologist Stanley Williams.
The Nordic Volcanological Center (NordVulk) in Iceland can celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. Yet, at the same time year 2024 marks the end of NordVulk as we have known it these past 50 years. The funding from the Nordic Council has come to an
Exciting times ahead with the launching of a new CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage) company led by CEO Erik Trampe (see featured photo) - a colleague from the IKKA-project. Inspired by the natural processes of Ikka Fjord, we hope to make a difference and
I'm really happy to report that we got 11 team members home safely, and that the ikaite columns of Ikka Fjord appear to have recovered remarkably in the last couple of years. In certain areas of the fjord, they are teeming with life just like
We are really grateful for being granted a third year of funding to our NAPA project 'The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic 2022 - 2025'. The third year marks the final activities of this project that started in
To our great surprise and concern, the standard HD and ED photographs of Jörfi's hips and elbows showed a dysplasia grade 3 on her left elbow. This is not something we would have suspected as she is always running around and not limping. Right elbow
Erik is currently in Iceland to take part in the annual glacier trip to Vatnajökull (Vorferð) with JÖRFÍ. However, he was extremely lucky to even see the onset of the most recent volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula. He was taking part in the weekly
Thanks to new funding from the Aage V. Jensens Fond in Denmark, we are now able to invite our two German divers, Uli Kunz and Florian Huber to join us again on fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. They were part of a film crew