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
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
We have a new publication in Nature Communications Earth & Environment on a method towards forecasting earthquakes in Iceland: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01852-3. This is a huge step forward in science if this method can be applied elsewhere in high-risk areas of earthquakes above magnitude 5. So far
The last ten days have been spent around the Lockne meteorite crater in Jämtland, Central Sweden in search of a possible third crater in the vicinity of the Lockne crater. Erik and his colleague Jens Ormö have been studying the geological map and the ejecta
Two weeks in August were spent in Iceland and started with a fieldwork campaign around the volcano Askja in the central highlands. My tall nephew Adrian Heldrup had volunteered to be our field assistant, which he was the perfect candidate for as it is an
The film shooting that took place back in August 2021 during fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland is finally released in the science program Terra X on German channel ZDF. It will premiere on Sunday, 18 June at 19:30 (Swedish/Danish time zone), but is already
Our two German scientific divers from the Ikka expedition 2021, Uli Kunz and Florian Huber have both taken part in interviews on the Stephan Wiesner YouTube channel. These videos are interesting to watch and give an inspiring insight into scientific diving and photographing. The video
The first of the German documentaries, featuring the Ikka project, was aired on TV channel ARTE in January: https://programm.ard.de/TV/Themenschwerpunkte/Dokus--Reportagen/Umwelt-und-Natur/Startseite/?sendung=287244000834318 Same program will be presented on the ZDF channel on 11th or 18th of June 2023 as part of the German science series Terra X. An extended
UPDATE! A total of five articles have been published in Sermitsiaq over six weeks in May-June. The pdf of those articles can be found here in Danish and Greenlandic: Sermitsiaq week 21 - Ikait-søjlerne undersøges igen til sommer og Tysk TV vil fortælle om Ikait-søjlerneDownload Sermitsiaq week
A lot of activities going on related to the Ikka project in Greenland including grants, media attention and popular science publications. Fantastic! ---- First of all a sincere and humble thank you to the Nordic Institute in Greenland (NAPA) for granting us support to a multitude