Today was the Master's exam of Sigríður María Aðalsteinsdóttir (Sigga) at the University of Iceland. Sigga has been working with us on the IKKA project in Greenland since summer 2019, and her MS thesis is entitled 'The Low-Temperature Weathering of the Grønnedal-Íka Carbonatite-Alkaline Silicate Igneous
Written by Erik Sturkell Finally a spring trip with the Icelandic Glaciological Society (JÖRFI) after the limited tour in 2020, which I did not take part in. Due to the covid situation only a few participated in the spring trip 2020. In 2021, there was a
I have discovered a new heavenly place on Earth, the archipelago on the west coast of Sweden. For some reason, Erik and I have done very little sightseeing in the Gothenburg area, but while Erik was in Iceland, I got a chance to visit our
Erik and co-workers just had their work published on the findings of microplast in the Vatnajökull glacier on Iceland. This is Europe's largest glacier and although diminishing it still receives quite a bunch of snow load each year, which is then slowly turned into glacier
Erik is a dedicated writer of articles to Geologiskt forum, the popular science magazine from the Swedish Geological Society (Geologiska föreningen). This year has resulted in two articles, one about his trip to Oman, where they had an excellent field guide in Peter Keleman, and
We are most grateful for receiving funding from the Danish Fund 'Aage V. Jensens fonde' for research in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. The funding will be spent on carrying out oceanographic studies and making CTD profiles in Ikka Fjord to obtain good, solid seawater data
In mid August, Erik and I decided spontaneously to go on one week's visit to Jämtland in central Sweden. We have friends living up there and Erik has his Impact Crater project in the area. Hence, this gave us the chance to stay at our
Written by Erik Sturkell On the 4th of July I travelled to Iceland with multiple purposes: 1) to do field work, 2) to meet people, and 3) to attend our car and apartment. Upon arrival I took a Corona test that turned out to be negative, that’s
Our main results from the 2019 fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland has been published in the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq. Because the Ikka columns now appear to be so fragile, it is important to share the knowledge with the local communities in Greenland. Otherwise, we
My former PhD supervisor Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (Siggi) was awarded the Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland in early January 2020. The reason for awarding him was his "scientific achievements within the field of geochemistry and pioneering of carbon sequestration techniques in