Photos & text by Erik Sturkell In November 2025, the final part of the EU-funded project Nexus monARC took place. The project ended on Santorini and Milos with an excursion. Bengt Liljebladh and I decided to take part in the excursion and therefore travelled to Greece.
Greenland newspaper Sermitsiaq has published a new article about our Ikka project. This time, a coverage of the fieldwork in Ikka Fjord this summer and what we hope to achieve with the dataloggers we deployed on three ikaite columns. The goal is to have long-term
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell I arrived in Iceland on the 30th of July around two weeks after the start of the 16th of July volcanic eruption on Reykjanes. This eruption fissure followed the Sundhnukar crater row, and the lava flow didn’t threaten anything important, but the
Photo cover: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS, 2025 We have returned from a really successful field season in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. First of all, we were extremely lucky with the weather, which meant we could complete our most important task within the first three days. Namely, the
Erik together with two of his colleagues Thomas Zack and Peter Keleman, and two BSc students from the University of Gothenburg went on a B and C granite excursion in the glorious weather this past Tuesday. They first went to a locality at Lindome and
Photo credit: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS 2024 For some reason, the message hadn't come across to us that Aage V. Jensens Fond in Denmark (https://www.avjf.dk/avjnf/) had granted us funding to invest in data loggers for measuring temperature and salinity among the ikaite columns in Ikka Fjord, SW
Time to present the participants of the IKKA expedition 2025 heading to Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland in June 2025. We are six scientists this year plus Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk aiding us again. There will be three different research projects covered this year of
One week was spent in Jämtland, Northern Sweden in end of September in search of further evidence of a third meteorite crater in the Lockne - Tandsbyn area. This is a continuation of the field campaign that Erik and I started last autumn, and where
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
I'm really happy to report that we got 11 team members home safely, and that the ikaite columns of Ikka Fjord appear to have recovered remarkably in the last couple of years. In certain areas of the fjord, they are teeming with life just like