Text and photos by Erik Sturkell On the last day in July, I traveled to Iceland for carrying out fieldwork around the Askja volcano. This volcano has inflated since August 2021 with nearly 70 cm until late summer 2023. The continues GPS stations indicate that uplift
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
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
Two weeks in August were spent in Iceland and started with a fieldwork campaign around the volcano Askja in the central highlands. My tall nephew Adrian Heldrup had volunteered to be our field assistant, which he was the perfect candidate for as it is an
Written by Erik Sturkell This year in July, I got the opportunity to visit the tiny island called Surtsey once more. This Icelandic Island is less than 1.25 km2 in size and continuously getting smaller. It was my third visit to the island, and we were performing
Erik has had a good January month and received funding from Elna Bengtson's fund in Sweden for an excursion guide to natural stones used for facades in Gothenburg. This project is carried out in collaboration with 'Kulturvård' at University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Geological
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell The annual research trip to the volcano Askja in the Icelandic highlands took place from the 17th to the 28th of August this year. Fieldwork this late in the summer was dictated by the possibility to combine geodesy (levelling and GPS) with
Written by Erik Sturkell The results from the measurements of the Askja volcano in late July showed continuous declining subsidence. I concluded this is it, the subsidence has levelled out with the center subsiding with less than 1 cm per year. However, volcanoes can always surprise
Written by Erik Sturkell This year I had an enthusiastic volunteer in Jens from Roskilde to assist in the measurement of the crustal deformation of the volcano Askja. In the last week, all the players changed as Sveinbjörn and Chiara could not go north on the