Or a November day in the sand. Author: Erik Sturkell. On Sunday the 8th of November Gabrielle, Glitnir, Deli and I (Erik) joined Eric Hegardt and Erik Meland far out in the woods just south of Svenljunga, to do a refraction survey. Eric and Erik had a
We are most grateful for receiving funding from the Danish Fund 'Aage V. Jensens fonde' for research in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. The funding will be spent on carrying out oceanographic studies and making CTD profiles in Ikka Fjord to obtain good, solid seawater data
In mid August, Erik and I decided spontaneously to go on one week's visit to Jämtland in central Sweden. We have friends living up there and Erik has his Impact Crater project in the area. Hence, this gave us the chance to stay at our
Written by Erik Sturkell On the 4th of July I travelled to Iceland with multiple purposes: 1) to do field work, 2) to meet people, and 3) to attend our car and apartment. Upon arrival I took a Corona test that turned out to be negative, that’s
In November 2019, Erik and I had a severe accident with our old Toyota Landcruiser and in many ways lucky to still be alive. We are not the first to be in an accident in Iceland due to snowy slippery roads. Quite many of our
I travelled to the Askja volcano to perform crustal deformation measurements with GPS and levelling. We were four persons who went to Askja: Steini, Sveinbjörn, Siqi and I. Summer 2019 has been fantastic in Reykjavík. It seems that if one part of the country is
What an adventurous fieldwork we had in Greenland this summer! This year's research team consisted of Paul Seaman from the UK, Richard Gyllencreutz from Stockholm University, Sigríður María Aðalsteinsdóttir (Sigga) from the University of Iceland, plus Erik and I. We had a lot on our schedule
Between the 26th of May and 9th of June, the Glaciological Society of Iceland made its annual spring trip to Vatnajökull. As the interest and research projects are growing in numbers, two succeeding trips were made. Each trip consisted of about 25 persons, with a