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
Text by Erik Sturkell, live from Spain. Photo above is of the volcano Mount Saint Helens in the US, photo taken by Erik Sturkell. --- Thanks to our work on changes in geochemical composition of groundwater in Iceland and the publication Skelton et al. (2019), I got
Thanks to the La Palma eruption on the Canary Islands and the still ongoing Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland, plus the potential eruption from Askja, volcanoes are receiving a lot of attention by Swedish media these days. Erik has been contacted quite frequently for a comment,
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.
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
The Hiärne prize ceremony was supposed to take place in Uppsala, but due to the current covid-19 situtation, this was turned into an online event by the Swedish Geological Society instead. Erik received his nice diploma per mail and gave a online speech in Swedish,
Pleasant and unexpected news from the Geological Society of Sweden. They have awarded Erik with the Hiärne Prize for his popular science activities. Having followed Erik's career over the past 13 years, I can confirm this prize is well deserved! Besides being very dedicated to
On the 30th of June, Erik took part in the recording of the Children's Summer Show “Sommarlov” (summer vacation) in Malmö, Southern Sweden. This TV show has been running for several summers and is at present part of the Swedish national television's (SVT) summer programs. The