The Nordic Volcanological Center (NordVulk) in Iceland can celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. Yet, at the same time year 2024 marks the end of NordVulk as we have known it these past 50 years. The funding from the Nordic Council has come to an
Exciting times ahead with the launching of a new CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage) company led by CEO Erik Trampe (see featured photo) - a colleague from the IKKA-project. Inspired by the natural processes of Ikka Fjord, we hope to make a difference and
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
Erik is currently in Iceland to take part in the annual glacier trip to Vatnajökull (Vorferð) with JÖRFÍ. However, he was extremely lucky to even see the onset of the most recent volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula. He was taking part in the weekly
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
I attended a very interesting and well organised conference in Copenhagen last week: 'The Changing Arctic Conference' (link here) with focus on security, environment, and society. Back in the old days when I worked at the Danish Polar Center, we used to have an annual
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell On the 19th of February I traveled to Iceland to spend a week. There were a lot of things to attend both big and small. I had hopes high to be able to visit Grindavík and to see the new lava