Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from us here in Gothenburg in Sweden. We had two weeks of perfect winter conditions before Christmas. This is when the snowy photos were taken. All of the neighbourhood's kids and
For the first time since the covid-19 pandemic, the AGU Fall Meeting was back in San Francisco and so were we. Last time we were here was in 2019, just before everything got closed down by covid restrictions. You could clearly tell that San Francisco
Text by Erik Sturkell By December 2023, I reached the number 100 of peer-reviewed articles that I'm either first author or co-author on. My first research article was published in 1990 in the Soviet journal Okeanologija AN SSSR and published in Russian. It reported the scientific
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell One week in November was spent working with my impact colleague Jens Ormö in Madrid, Spain. I arrived on the evening of November 19 and took a taxi to the hotel. The hotel was conveniently located near the airport and
Lina Rasmusson, Susse Wegeberg and I participated in the Greenland Science Week in Nuuk, Greenland. Here Lina presented the results of the first year of our NAPA-funded IKKA-project “The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic”. Focus of Lina's
Erik together with Henrik Ranby (Department of Conservation, GU) and Thomas Eliasson (SGU) has published a guide to rock types used for the house facades in Gothenburg City. It's published by the Swedish Geological Society (Geologiska Föreningen) and can be downloaded from their website: --- Specialpublikation
A good friend with a warm heart, John Arsuk Rasmussen (born 1952) passed away peacefully at his favourite place on Earth, Greenland. John Arsuk helped us on the Ikka project from the early years of Ikka expeditions in the nineties until summer of 2014 when
We finally had the chance to place Carl-Edvard's urn in the Sturkell family burial site at 'skogskyrkogården' in Katrineholm and thereby take a last farewell to Erik's father. There were just a few of us present this time. Besides us, family members from the Sturkell
Photos and text by Erik Sturkell On the 20th of September the world lost a good man, and I lost a fantastic friend and colleague when Halldór Ólafsson (born 1937) passed away in Reykjavík, Iceland. I had the privilege of knowing Halldór for many years. Our
The last ten days have been spent around the Lockne meteorite crater in Jämtland, Central Sweden in search of a possible third crater in the vicinity of the Lockne crater. Erik and his colleague Jens Ormö have been studying the geological map and the ejecta