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
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 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
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
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
On the 9th of September my old friend Sigge got married. This time it took place in the community house (Folkets Hus) in Rönninge. This house is conveniently close to the railway station just across the road. Sigge had invited us,
While in Denmark, we had the chance to join in the celebration of our friend Susan Hansen's 60th birthday together with the closest family. First part took place at Denmark's oldest functioning tavern 'Bromølle Kro', where we had a very nice lunch. From there we
Erik had a very quiet birthday this year compared to last summer's 60 years garden party. As we had both attended big birthday parties just days before, we decided to have a relaxing evening at home with a nice dinner in the garden and champagne.
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