Our British colleague, Paul Seaman from the Ikka research project stopped by for a visit in Gothenburg after working on a ship outside the coast of Faxe Ladeplads in Denmark. As Paul lives with his family in Scotland, I took him to Tjolöholm castle south
Text by Erik Sturkell, live from Spain. Photo above is of the volcano Mount Saint Helens in the US, photo taken by Erik Sturkell. --- Thanks to our work on changes in geochemical composition of groundwater in Iceland and the publication Skelton et al. (2019), I got
There are several news items from the Ikka Project this week: Great news from Erik! He received funding from Carl Tryggers Stiftelse in Sweden for our IKKA expedition 2021. This is most welcome funding as the expedition became much more expensive than planned due to corona
Oceanographer Bengt Liljebladh and I went to inspect the new research vessel R/V Skagerak last Friday at Nya Varvet, Gothenburg. She has recently been commissioned to duty at the University of Gothenburg, and Friday was 'open house' where anyone interested was allowed aboard to visit
Last Friday was the official day of Professor inauguration for Peter Stougaard and other newly-appointed professors at Aarhus University, Risø. Peter is a microbiologist working on the IKKA project and been leading several expeditions to Ikka Fjord in Greenland since 2007. Now appointed Professor in
We are most grateful for the financial support from 'Aase og Jørgen Münters Fond' in Denmark to our Greenland research project! The diving on this year's IKKA expedition to study the submarine ikaite columns was made possible through a generous grant from this Danish fund.
To celebrate that it is now 26 years ago we had our first scientific expedition to Ikka Fjord in SW Greenland to study the magnificent ikaite columns, 25-30 participants from the many expeditions met in Copenhagen last Friday for coffee, a scientific meeting and a
Written by Erik Sturkell The results from the measurements of the Askja volcano in late July showed continuous declining subsidence. I concluded this is it, the subsidence has levelled out with the center subsiding with less than 1 cm per year. However, volcanoes can always surprise
During the fieldwork in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland in August 2021, Erik Sturkell and Richard Gyllencreutz did geological mapping on the southern side of the fjord and came across a Norse ruin. This turned out to be a hitherto unknown Norse ruin! It has therefore
Written by Erik Sturkell The grand master of the French Rochechouart impact structure, Philippe had invited Jens and I to a CIRIR workshop (Center for International Research & Restitution on Impacts and on Rochechouart) in the town of Rochechouart on the 27th to 28th of August 2021. Five persons participated