Written by Erik SturkellAll photos taken by Erik Sturkell In spring 2022, I joined the board for the event “Geology Day” which takes place the second Saturday of September every year. The purpose of this event is to inform people about geology in an inspiring way
Written by Erik Sturkell End October I went eastbound to Åbo in Finland for two weeks. The mission was to give an intensive course in geophysics for students at Åbo Akademi University and University of Turko (Turun yliopisto). Prof. Olav Eklund (Joffi) introduced me to this
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.
It's been two years since my mother and I last had a chance to visit our Stockmann family in Holland. The cause being, of course, the covid-19 pandemic. To avoid flying and make us more flexible, we took our car from Sweden and drove all
Copenhagen has its annual Nordlys Festival (Northern light festival). This year the occasion was used to celebrate the 100 year jubilee of Polar researcher Knud Rasmussen's 5th Thule expedition 1921-24. This is the most remarkable of Knud Rasmussen's many expeditions as this is when he
End of May, Erik and I travelled to Iceland for a multitude of purposes. I had to pack my office at the University of Iceland as I'm no longer employed there, and we had to sort things in our apartment in Reykjavík. Erik came for
Back to San Francisco, both for us and the AGU Fall meeting. The meeting was bigger than ever with more than 25000 participants, celebrating the centennial of AGU-100 years. This time, we only stayed for the meeting and unfortunately had no time for sightseeing, just
This was the first time the Greenland Science Week took place. It used to be called the 'Polar Day' and be helt somewhere in Denmark, but now the decision has been made to move it permanently to Nuuk in Greenland. On behalf of our research group
One hundred years ago (1st of September 1919) two young Swedes stood on the edge of a large caldera. This is known today as Grimsvötn and is Iceland’s currently most frequently erupting volcano. It was Erik Ygberg and Håkan Wadell who were the first ones
I travelled to the Askja volcano to perform crustal deformation measurements with GPS and levelling. We were four persons who went to Askja: Steini, Sveinbjörn, Siqi and I. Summer 2019 has been fantastic in Reykjavík. It seems that if one part of the country is