Featured photo by Uli Kunz, SUBMARIS 2024 The Greenland research portal 'Arctic Hub' has published an article about our IKKA project in three languages; Greenlandic, Danish, and English. At the same time, they feature the underwater videos made by Uli Kunz from last summer's fieldwork in
Since September last year, I have been asked on four different occasions to give a popular science talk on the Greenland minerals, cryolite and ikaite. Both of these minerals originate from the same area in Southwest Greenland. Cryolite was mined in the town of Ivittuut
Photo above: Erik Sturkell 'shadow selfie' from his beloved Iceland and one of his favoured volcanoes Askja :-) Erik has reached an impressive number of 50 published articles in the Swedish journal 'Geologiskt forum' published by the Geological Society of Sweden: https://geologiskaforeningen.se/geologiskt_forum/ He had his first
This summer with all its rainy weather has allowed me the time to read two books about volcanic eruptions. One fictional novel 'Eldarnir – Ástin og aðrar hamfarir' by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir from Iceland, and one biography 'Surviving Galeras' by the American volcanologist Stanley Williams.
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
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
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
This is just to advertise our recent popular science article in Geologiskt forum nr. 111, 2021 about the Fagradalsfjall volcanic eruption in Iceland. The article is in Swedish. Link to 'Geologiska föreningen', who is the publisher of Geologiskt forum: https://geologiskaforeningen.se For all who understands Swedish, we highly recommend
Erik has written yet another popular science article for Geologiskt forum entitled 'Diamanter - det hårdaste inom geologin'. To translate, this time the chosen topic was diamonds, the hardest mineral on Earth. While I was teaching at the University of Iceland, one of my courses