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
Exciting times ahead with the launching of a new CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage) company led by CEO Erik Trampe (see featured photo by Gabrielle) - a colleague from the IKKA-project. Inspired by the natural processes of Ikka Fjord, we hope to make a
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
We are really grateful for being granted a third year of funding to our NAPA project 'The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic 2022 - 2025'. The third year marks the final activities of this project that started in
Thanks to new funding from the Aage V. Jensens Fond in Denmark, we are now able to invite our two German divers, Uli Kunz and Florian Huber to join us again on fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. They were part of a film crew
Congrats to Mariane Schmidt Thøgersen and co-workers on their new Ikka publication on the incredible biodiversity found inside the ikaite columns of Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland: Thøgersen MS, Zervas A, Stougaard P and Ellegaard-Jensen L (2024) Investigating eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity and functional potential
Featured photo showing Mark Peternell setting up new ikaite experiments in the IceLab at Natrium, University of Gothenburg (Photo: Gabrielle Stockmann). After having worked as a guest researcher for a while at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, I felt it was about time
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
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
A good friend with a warm heart, John Arsuk Rasmussen (born 1952) passed away peacefully at his favourite place on Earth, Greenland. John Arsuk helped us on the Ikka project from the early years of Ikka expeditions in the nineties until summer of 2014 when