Congrats to Mariane Schmidt Thøgersen and co-workers on their new Ikka publication on the incredible biodiversity found inside the ikaite columns of Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland: Thøgersen MS, Zervas A, Stougaard P and Ellegaard-Jensen L (2024) Investigating eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity and functional potential
Time flies and we have already reached the 2 years birthday of our youngster Jörfi, our Dutch-bred Smooth Collie from the Mabinogion kennel. She has had her hurdles with too much stomach acid and been hospitalised twice in the past year, but it feels like
Our Easter holiday was spent in Denmark including a day trip to Lund to visit my brother Paul and his family. I brought Erik on a visit to the Karen Blixen museum at 'Rungstedlund' (https://blixen.dk), his first visit there but one of many for me.
Featured photo showing Mark Peternell setting up new ikaite experiments in the IceLab at Natrium, University of Gothenburg (Photo: Gabrielle Stockmann). After having worked as a guest researcher for a while at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, I felt it was about time
I attended a very interesting and well organised conference in Copenhagen last week: 'The Changing Arctic Conference' (link here) with focus on security, environment, and society. Back in the old days when I worked at the Danish Polar Center, we used to have an annual
Less than a year after my godfather Carl Stockmann passed away, my godmother Mieke sadly joined him. Her health hasn't been the best in the past year but nevertheless, it's always difficult to prepare for the situation when people pass away. It seems to happen
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell On the 19th of February I traveled to Iceland to spend a week. There were a lot of things to attend both big and small. I had hopes high to be able to visit Grindavík and to see the new lava
Our Smooth Collie oldie, Deli has reached the age of 11 and was therefore properly celebrated today with dog friends, both humans and dogs. It had been snowing again the past night and our neighbourhood looked lovely covered in snow. We went around photographing this
Gothenburg hosted the 36th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting (NGWM 2024) 50 years after the very first NGWM meeting, which happened to take place in Gothenburg, too. Hence in many ways a jubilee meeting. Here afterwards, we are extremely relieved to see how well everything was
Despite obstacles like sickness, bad weather, and our car going to the garage for repair on Dec. 27, we managed to make our way up to Särna in Dalarna over New Year. I'm happy we made the effort. As always, it was great to be