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
A year ago I gave a talk at the Greenland Society (det grønlandske selskab) about our IKKA project. The society has a student division, too, who invited me to give a talk this fall on the same topic. I was looking forward to meeting the
The film shooting that took place back in August 2021 during fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland is finally released in the science program Terra X on German channel ZDF. It will premiere on Sunday, 18 June at 19:30 (Swedish/Danish time zone), but is already
The Nordic-Arctic Co-operation Programme NAPA has granted a 2nd year of funding to the IKKA project in Greenland. We are most grateful for this funding to our project 'The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic', which is led by
Our Bachelor student, Alaël Temmar from the University of Gothenburg did a great job in defending her B.Sc. thesis on June 1, 2023. Her thesis is called 'Assessing the Carbon Sequestration Potential in Southwestern Sweden - A comparative study of igneous rocks from Greenland, Iceland,
Oceanographer Bengt Liljebladh from the University of Gothenburg was invited to the International workshop on fjords with emphasis on biogeochemistry, oceanography and modelling at the Kristineberg Center for Marine Research and Innovation, Fiskebäckskil in Sweden. On behalf of the Ikka project, he presented a lecture
Photo above: Gabrielle. In August 1999, I went around photographing all my colleagues at the Danish Polar Center, among other Henning Thing. Dear Friend and former colleague, Henning Thing (1948 - 2023) has regrettably lost his battle against cancer. He passed away Thursday, April
Our two German scientific divers from the Ikka expedition 2021, Uli Kunz and Florian Huber have both taken part in interviews on the Stephan Wiesner YouTube channel. These videos are interesting to watch and give an inspiring insight into scientific diving and photographing. The video
The first of the German documentaries, featuring the Ikka project, was aired on TV channel ARTE in January: https://programm.ard.de/TV/Themenschwerpunkte/Dokus--Reportagen/Umwelt-und-Natur/Startseite/?sendung=287244000834318 Same program will be presented on the ZDF channel on 11th or 18th of June 2023 as part of the German science series Terra X. An extended