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
Erik has had a good January month and received funding from Elna Bengtson's fund in Sweden for an excursion guide to natural stones used for facades in Gothenburg. This project is carried out in collaboration with 'Kulturvård' at University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Geological
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
Written by Erik Sturkell The Lockne impact structure still hosts unknowns and research continues. Jens Ormö from Madrid came to Gothenburg 30th of September and stayed two nights. Early Sunday morning we drove to Lockne and it took all day. We rented a small cottage at the
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell The annual research trip to the volcano Askja in the Icelandic highlands took place from the 17th to the 28th of August this year. Fieldwork this late in the summer was dictated by the possibility to combine geodesy (levelling and GPS) with
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