Written by Erik Sturkell The grand master of the French Rochechouart impact structure, Philippe had invited Jens and I to a CIRIR workshop (Center for International Research & Restitution on Impacts and on Rochechouart) in the town of Rochechouart on the 27th to 28th of August 2021. Five persons......

What a challenging year to carry out fieldwork in Greenland! Despite many obstacles such as covid-19 restrictions, bad weather, (too) heavy luggage, engine failure, and technical problems on Air Greenland’s Airbus, we managed to get all people to Greenland and back again with some delays.......

Written by Erik Sturkell This year I had an enthusiastic volunteer in Jens from Roskilde to assist in the measurement of the crustal deformation of the volcano Askja. In the last week, all the players changed as Sveinbjörn and Chiara could not go north on......

First leg of our fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland this summer was carried out by oceanographer Jesper Sano Højdal from HydroCharting ApS and Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk. Despite bad weather, they were able to make 78 temperature-salinity profiles from inner Ikka Fjord all the......

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......

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,......

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......

Professor Valentin Troll (Val) from Uppsala University in Sweden came to Iceland earlier in the month to be one of the opponents for Robert Askew’s PhD dissertation. Rob did great and can now call him self Dr. Askew. This happy occasion came me the possibility......

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......

Yesterday, we received prominent visitors from the Danish Embassy in Iceland. Ambassador, Eva Egesborg Hansen and her staff, Andreas Nøhr Vestergaard, Gudrun Haraldsdóttir, and practical interns Oscar and Jens came to an info meeting at our Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland. The institute......

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......

Between the 25th and 30th of June, the Stockholm University excursion for the evening course “Earthquakes” took place in northern Iceland. The excursion had 25 students and four leaders. During the first two days the weather was fantastic, whereas the last two days it was......

What an adventurous fieldwork we had in Greenland this summer! This year’s research team consisted of Paul Seaman from the UK, Richard Gyllencreutz from Stockholm University, Sigríður María Aðalsteinsdóttir (Sigga) from the University of Iceland, plus Erik and I. We had a lot on our schedule......

Between the 26th of May and 9th of June, the Glaciological Society of Iceland made its annual spring trip to Vatnajökull. As the interest and research projects are growing in numbers, two succeeding trips were made. Each trip consisted of about 25 persons, with a......

Between the 21st and 24th of May 2019, the NORTHQUAKE 2019 took place in Húsavík. This was the 3rd International Workshop on Earthquakes in North Iceland. About 30-40 participants listened to 30 talks for two days about earthquakes, monitoring, hazard- and response scenarios. On the......

No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful....