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
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
Our Ikkaton - Climate Solutions project (https://ikkaton.com), led by CEO Erik Trampe, has made it into this really excellent article by Kalundborg Harbour (in Danish): https://portofkalundborg.dk/groen-innovation-paa-kalundborg-havn-ny-teknologi-omdanner-co2-til-kalk/ Kalundborg harbour in Denmark is the location of the pilot plant, where CO2 gas is turned into the mineral ikaite,
Photo above: Erik Sturkell 'shadow selfie' from his beloved Iceland and one of his favoured volcanoes Askja :-) Erik has reached an impressive number of 50 published articles in the Swedish journal 'Geologiskt forum' published by the Geological Society of Sweden: https://geologiskaforeningen.se/geologiskt_forum/ He had his first
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell In late October (20 Oct.) I traveled east to Åbo in Finland to give a two weeklong intensive course in geophysics. This was the tenth time I gave this course (first time in 2011), and its popularity has steadily been
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
One week was spent in Jämtland, Northern Sweden in end of September in search of further evidence of a third meteorite crater in the Lockne - Tandsbyn area. This is a continuation of the field campaign that Erik and I started last autumn, and where
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,
What a fantastic conference! Probably one of the most interesting I've ever attended. The European Mineralogical Conference 2024 was held at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in the third week of August. I went there as a convener and presenter on the carbonate session but
Text and photos by Erik Sturkell On the last day in July, I traveled to Iceland for carrying out fieldwork around the Askja volcano. This volcano has inflated since August 2021 with nearly 70 cm until late summer 2023. The continues GPS stations indicate that uplift