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
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:
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