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
We are extremely proud of Lotta Hanzelmann and the M.Sc. thesis work she has been carrying out the past years at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. It has not been easy to conduct laboratory work when instruments and laboratories have been shut down occasionally due to
Det Grønlandske Selskab, roughly translated into 'The Greenland Society', invited me to give a talk about the Ikka columns in Greenland and the mineral changes we have observed to the columns. This came out nicely as we just got our MDPI Minerals article published on
Finally, after several field seasons in Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland and a lot of analytical work, we can celebrate publication of our research results in MDPI minerals: https://doi.org/10.3390/min12111430 Here we report the mineral changes that we observe in these mineral columns. They used to be
A very successful field season in Ikka Fjord - not least thanks to our local collaborator Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk and beautiful sunshine during the whole period. The researchers in the field this season were geophysicist Paul Seaman from Scotland (UK), oceanographer Bengt Liljebladh from
UPDATE! A total of five articles have been published in Sermitsiaq over six weeks in May-June. The pdf of those articles can be found here in Danish and Greenlandic: Sermitsiaq week 21 - Ikait-søjlerne undersøges igen til sommer og Tysk TV vil fortælle om Ikait-søjlerneDownload Sermitsiaq week
A lot of activities going on related to the Ikka project in Greenland including grants, media attention and popular science publications. Fantastic! ---- First of all a sincere and humble thank you to the Nordic Institute in Greenland (NAPA) for granting us support to a multitude
Congrats to the organisers of the 35th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting in Reykjavík, Iceland on a very successful conference! Þorsteinn Sæmundsson, Halld´ór Geirsson, Ásta Rut Hjartardóttir and the company SENA did a really good job in creating not only an interesting meeting but also
While in Iceland, we were luckily able to attend the PhD defence of Eemu Ranta at the University of Iceland. Eemu is a former BSc and MSc student of ours on the Ikka project in Greenland, and similar to his Master's thesis, he has done