Report and photos by Erik Sturkell. --------------------------- The Icelandic glaciological society (JÖRFÍ) organised the first spring trip (Vorferð) to Vatnajökull from the 25th to the 31st of May, which I took part in. This was the first trip of two as the spring trip is popular. The approach point
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
Erik was invited by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, to give a talk about Geologists on the Silver screen and how they are portrayed in movies. Belief it or not, but this a topic Erik and fellow geologists from the University of
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
There are again several News items to share from the IKKA project: The Seaman et al. paper on the new mapping of the ikaite columns is finally published in Marine Geology. By use of multi beam and drone imagining, our lead author Paul Seaman was able
Congratulations to Axel Sjöqvist on a successful PhD dissertation on the 10th of December 2021 at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Axel's PhD thesis is entitled "Ample Rare Elements - A Geochemical Anomaly in the Earth's Crust at Norra Kärr". His opponent was Thomas Find
Written by Erik Sturkell In November I traveled to Spain to work with impact-colleague Jens Ormö. During the first two weeks we worked in Madrid at his impact laboratory. The last week was spent in the field in southern Spain (Andalusia) studying different types of breccia.
Our British colleague, Paul Seaman from the Ikka research project stopped by for a visit in Gothenburg after working on a ship outside the coast of Faxe Ladeplads in Denmark. As Paul lives with his family in Scotland, I took him to Tjolöholm castle south
Text by Erik Sturkell, live from Spain. Photo above is of the volcano Mount Saint Helens in the US, photo taken by Erik Sturkell. --- Thanks to our work on changes in geochemical composition of groundwater in Iceland and the publication Skelton et al. (2019), I got
There are several news items from the Ikka Project this week: Great news from Erik! He received funding from Carl Tryggers Stiftelse in Sweden for our IKKA expedition 2021. This is most welcome funding as the expedition became much more expensive than planned due to corona