The final major work on Geologists in movies Featured in the magazine Geology Today: Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel In spring 2026, a new article about geologists in movies got published. The article is in the category “Feature” with the reference: Sturkell, E., Sjöqvist, A., Björklund, L.,
There has been a massive interest in Greenland in recent months, understandably. With my background in Greenland, both as a researcher and as a child living in Nuuk 1978 -1981, I'm more than happy to share my knowledge. Greenland is still like a second home
If you are still looking for inspiration for Christmas presents this book might be a good choice :-). After more than ten years of work, the new popular science book on Sweden's Geology is finally here. The book is entitled 'Sveriges geology - en resa
Great news! We finally managed to get the article published that covers the work that Sigríður María Aðalsteinsdóttir (Sigga) did for her MSc thesis at the University of Iceland. She joined us on fieldwork to Greenland in 2019 and sampled rocks from the Grønnedal-Íka alkaline
Erik and I went on a short trip to Reykjavík just to check up on our apartment and our car, and getting the chance to meet up with friends in Iceland. The volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes was still ongoing on our arrival and could
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
Photo above: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS. River running into Ikka Fjord with musk oxen on the beach, 2021 Over 27 years, we have been collecting water samples from Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland on various expeditions between 1995 and 2022. These encompass samples of springs, rivers, lakes,
Congrats to Mariane Schmidt Thøgersen and co-workers on their new Ikka publication on the incredible biodiversity found inside the ikaite columns of Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland: Thøgersen MS, Zervas A, Stougaard P and Ellegaard-Jensen L (2024) Investigating eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity and functional potential
Text by Erik Sturkell By December 2023, I reached the number 100 of peer-reviewed articles that I'm either first author or co-author on. My first research article was published in 1990 in the Soviet journal Okeanologija AN SSSR and published in Russian. It reported the scientific
Erik together with Henrik Ranby (Department of Conservation, GU) and Thomas Eliasson (SGU) has published a guide to rock types used for the house facades in Gothenburg City. It's published by the Swedish Geological Society (Geologiska Föreningen) and can be downloaded from their website: --- Specialpublikation