Erik Trampe and I took part in the Danish CCUS summit 2026 in Copenhagen where we got the chance to present our Ikkaton INNO-CCUS project. Erik gave a talk while I presented a poster. This is a meeting held every second year presenting an overview
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell On the 9th and 10th of September I attended the 7th edition of the World Congress on Geology & Earth Science in Paris. I left Copenhagen Airport on the evening of the 8th to arrive at the Charles de Gaulle airport (Fig. 1). The
Erik and I just returned from the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting 2026 (https://ngwm2026.fi), which was held in Åbo in Finland, also called Turku in Finnish. This is the place Erik goes to every second year to teach Geophysics at Åbo Akademi. Thus, he knows both
Our Ikka-colleague Lina Rasmusson took part in the International Seaweed Symposium 2025 in Canada earlier this month presenting the biological results of our NAPA-project “The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic”. The main focus has been to compare the
What a fantastic conference! Probably one of the most interesting I've ever attended. The European Mineralogical Conference 2024 was held at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in the third week of August. I went there as a convener and presenter on the carbonate session but
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
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
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
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
Congrats to the organisers of the 35th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting in Reykjavík, Iceland on a very successful conference! Þorsteinn Sæmundsson, Halld´ór Geirsson, Ásta Rut Hjartardóttir and the company SENA did a really good job in creating not only an interesting meeting but also