Written by Erik Sturkell On the 4th of July I travelled to Iceland with multiple purposes: 1) to do field work, 2) to meet people, and 3) to attend our car and apartment. Upon arrival I took a Corona test that turned out to be negative, that’s
Our main results from the 2019 fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland has been published in the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq. Because the Ikka columns now appear to be so fragile, it is important to share the knowledge with the local communities in Greenland. Otherwise, we
My former PhD supervisor Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (Siggi) was awarded the Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland in early January 2020. The reason for awarding him was his "scientific achievements within the field of geochemistry and pioneering of carbon sequestration techniques in
Professor Valentin Troll (Val) from Uppsala University in Sweden came to Iceland earlier in the month to be one of the opponents for Robert Askew's PhD dissertation. Rob did great and can now call him self Dr. Askew. This happy occasion came me the possibility
Back to San Francisco, both for us and the AGU Fall meeting. The meeting was bigger than ever with more than 25000 participants, celebrating the centennial of AGU-100 years. This time, we only stayed for the meeting and unfortunately had no time for sightseeing, just
This was the first time the Greenland Science Week took place. It used to be called the 'Polar Day' and be helt somewhere in Denmark, but now the decision has been made to move it permanently to Nuuk in Greenland. On behalf of our research group
Yesterday, we received prominent visitors from the Danish Embassy in Iceland. Ambassador, Eva Egesborg Hansen and her staff, Andreas Nøhr Vestergaard, Gudrun Haraldsdóttir, and practical interns Oscar and Jens came to an info meeting at our Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland. The institute
One hundred years ago (1st of September 1919) two young Swedes stood on the edge of a large caldera. This is known today as Grimsvötn and is Iceland’s currently most frequently erupting volcano. It was Erik Ygberg and Håkan Wadell who were the first ones
I travelled to the Askja volcano to perform crustal deformation measurements with GPS and levelling. We were four persons who went to Askja: Steini, Sveinbjörn, Siqi and I. Summer 2019 has been fantastic in Reykjavík. It seems that if one part of the country is
Between the 25th and 30th of June, the Stockholm University excursion for the evening course “Earthquakes” took place in northern Iceland. The excursion had 25 students and four leaders. During the first two days the weather was fantastic, whereas the last two days it was