We are happy and proud to have been part of two science awards granted to students / co-workers collaborating on our science projects. First, a big applause to Luca Smeraglia from the Institute of Geology and Environmental Geoengineering, National Research Council in Rome, Italy who
Erik and I just returned from the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting 2026 (https://ngwm2026.fi), which was held in Åbo in Finland, also called Turku in Finnish. This is the place Erik goes to every second year to teach Geophysics at Åbo Akademi. Thus, he knows both
Cover photo by Florian Huber, SUBMARIS 2025 ------------ Thanks to IKKA colleague and diver, Florian Huber from the company SUBMARIS, we got in contact with journalist Alex Rühle from Süddeutsche Zeitung - a well-known and well-established newspaper from Bayern in Germany. This resulted in a very nice
Greenland newspaper Sermitsiaq has published a new article about our Ikka project. This time, a coverage of the fieldwork in Ikka Fjord this summer and what we hope to achieve with the dataloggers we deployed on three ikaite columns. The goal is to have long-term
Photo cover: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS, 2025 We have returned from a really successful field season in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. First of all, we were extremely lucky with the weather, which meant we could complete our most important task within the first three days. Namely, the
Featured photo by Uli Kunz, SUBMARIS 2024 The Greenland research portal 'Arctic Hub' has published an article about our IKKA project in three languages; Greenlandic, Danish, and English. At the same time, they feature the underwater videos made by Uli Kunz from last summer's fieldwork in
Photo credit: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS 2024 For some reason, the message hadn't come across to us that Aage V. Jensens Fond in Denmark (https://www.avjf.dk/avjnf/) had granted us funding to invest in data loggers for measuring temperature and salinity among the ikaite columns in Ikka Fjord, SW
Our Ikka-colleague Lina Rasmusson took part in the International Seaweed Symposium 2025 in Canada earlier this month presenting the biological results of our NAPA-project “The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic”. The main focus has been to compare the
The Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq has interviewed CEO Erik Trampe (see photo above by Gabrielle) about the Ikkaton - Climate Solutions company and the possibilities to install a Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) facility in Greenland: https://www.sermitsiaq.ag/samfund/co2-til-produktion/2231717 It sounds very promising, and Erik Trampe and
Time to present the participants of the IKKA expedition 2025 heading to Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland in June 2025. We are six scientists this year plus Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk aiding us again. There will be three different research projects covered this year of