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
Photos & text by Erik Sturkell In November 2025, the final part of the EU-funded project Nexus monARC took place. The project ended on Santorini and Milos with an excursion. Bengt Liljebladh and I decided to take part in the excursion and therefore travelled to Greece.
Erik was invited by archeologist Anna Nyqvist Thorsson to Husaby Church near Skara in the Götene municipality. His task was to inspect the sandstone used in the construction of the church and the two impressive tombs lined up at each side at the entrance to
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
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell I arrived in Iceland on the 30th of July around two weeks after the start of the 16th of July volcanic eruption on Reykjanes. This eruption fissure followed the Sundhnukar crater row, and the lava flow didn’t threaten anything important, but the
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
Erik together with two of his colleagues Thomas Zack and Peter Keleman, and two BSc students from the University of Gothenburg went on a B and C granite excursion in the glorious weather this past Tuesday. They first went to a locality at Lindome and
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