Erik and I went on a short trip to Reykjavík just to check up on our apartment and our car, and getting the chance to meet up with friends in Iceland. The volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes was still ongoing on our arrival and could
We have a new publication in Nature Communications Earth & Environment on a method towards forecasting earthquakes in Iceland: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01852-3. This is a huge step forward in science if this method can be applied elsewhere in high-risk areas of earthquakes above magnitude 5. So far
Photo above: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS. River running into Ikka Fjord with musk oxen on the beach, 2021 Over 27 years, we have been collecting water samples from Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland on various expeditions between 1995 and 2022. These encompass samples of springs, rivers, lakes,
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
Text by Erik Sturkell By December 2023, I reached the number 100 of peer-reviewed articles that I'm either first author or co-author on. My first research article was published in 1990 in the Soviet journal Okeanologija AN SSSR and published in Russian. It reported the scientific
Erik together with Henrik Ranby (Department of Conservation, GU) and Thomas Eliasson (SGU) has published a guide to rock types used for the house facades in Gothenburg City. It's published by the Swedish Geological Society (Geologiska Föreningen) and can be downloaded from their website: --- Specialpublikation
We have a new publication out about the Lockne meteorite crater in Jämtland, Sweden: 'The Proximal Ejecta Around the Marine-Target Lockne Impact Structure, Sweden' published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets. Erik is the lead author on the publication and has also been the
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