The film shooting that took place back in August 2021 during fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland is finally released in the science program Terra X on German channel ZDF. It will premiere on Sunday, 18 June at 19:30 (Swedish/Danish time zone), but is already
The Nordic-Arctic Co-operation Programme NAPA has granted a 2nd year of funding to the IKKA project in Greenland. We are most grateful for this funding to our project 'The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic', which is led by
It was with great sadness we received the news of the passing of my mother's oldest brother, Carl Stockmann. In addition to being my uncle, he was also a highly treasured Godfather for me over 54 years. Carl and his wife, Mieke Stockmann-Aldenhuijsen have played
Our Bachelor student, Alaël Temmar from the University of Gothenburg did a great job in defending her B.Sc. thesis on June 1, 2023. Her thesis is called 'Assessing the Carbon Sequestration Potential in Southwestern Sweden - A comparative study of igneous rocks from Greenland, Iceland,
Believe it or not, this is one of the few times I have celebrated my birthday in Sweden and together with my husband. He is normally on the glacier trip to Vatnajökull this time of year, while I tend to spend my birthday in Denmark
To celebrate that friends Bo and Susan turned 60 two years ago and in August this year, respectively, I invited them to a viking concert in Danish Radio (DR) concert hall outside Copenhagen. It was magical and fantastic concert to put it short. Such power
Our friend Anneli Berg turned 60 in mid May and invited friends and family to a party on a houseboat at the Gothenburg waterfront. The weather was splendid and the food plenty. Late in the afternoon, Anneli had arranged an amphibian vehicle (a rebuilt Volvo
Oceanographer Bengt Liljebladh from the University of Gothenburg was invited to the International workshop on fjords with emphasis on biogeochemistry, oceanography and modelling at the Kristineberg Center for Marine Research and Innovation, Fiskebäckskil in Sweden. On behalf of the Ikka project, he presented a lecture
As tradition has it in Sweden, Valborgsmässoafton or Walpurgis Night is celebrated with bonfires and singing in the arrival of spring. In our neighbourhood, we meet with the neighbours around the fountain at Egnahemsplatsen with champagne (see photo above). We start by singing some of
While I went to Denmark to take part in the funeral service of Henning Thing and meet up with friends and former colleagues from the Danish Polar Center, Erik went to Iceland to take care of our Toyota Land Cruiser and make it ready for