A good friend with a warm heart, John Arsuk Rasmussen (born 1952) passed away peacefully at his favourite place on Earth, Greenland. John Arsuk helped us on the Ikka project from the early years of Ikka expeditions in the nineties until summer of 2014 when
Photos and text by Erik Sturkell On the 20th of September the world lost a good man, and I lost a fantastic friend and colleague when Halldór Ólafsson (born 1937) passed away in Reykjavík, Iceland. I had the privilege of knowing Halldór for many years. Our
A year ago I gave a talk at the Greenland Society (det grønlandske selskab) about our IKKA project. The society has a student division, too, who invited me to give a talk this fall on the same topic. I was looking forward to meeting the
The last ten days have been spent around the Lockne meteorite crater in Jämtland, Central Sweden in search of a possible third crater in the vicinity of the Lockne crater. Erik and his colleague Jens Ormö have been studying the geological map and the ejecta
We have a new publication out about the Lockne meteorite crater in Jämtland, Sweden: 'The Proximal Ejecta Around the Marine-Target Lockne Impact Structure, Sweden' published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets. Erik is the lead author on the publication and has also been the
Written by Erik Sturkell This year in July, I got the opportunity to visit the tiny island called Surtsey once more. This Icelandic Island is less than 1.25 km2 in size and continuously getting smaller. It was my third visit to the island, and we were performing
The film shooting that took place back in August 2021 during fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland is finally released in the science program Terra X on German channel ZDF. It will premiere on Sunday, 18 June at 19:30 (Swedish/Danish time zone), but is already
The Nordic-Arctic Co-operation Programme NAPA has granted a 2nd year of funding to the IKKA project in Greenland. We are most grateful for this funding to our project 'The Ikaite columns - past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic', which is led by
Our Bachelor student, Alaël Temmar from the University of Gothenburg did a great job in defending her B.Sc. thesis on June 1, 2023. Her thesis is called 'Assessing the Carbon Sequestration Potential in Southwestern Sweden - A comparative study of igneous rocks from Greenland, Iceland,
Oceanographer Bengt Liljebladh from the University of Gothenburg was invited to the International workshop on fjords with emphasis on biogeochemistry, oceanography and modelling at the Kristineberg Center for Marine Research and Innovation, Fiskebäckskil in Sweden. On behalf of the Ikka project, he presented a lecture