NAPA project completed
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April 17, 2026
in IKKA project, Outreach, Science Projects

NAPA project completed

Our NAPA-funded 3-year IKKA project has now come to an end. We are most grateful for the funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers and Aage V. Jensen’s Fond, which enabled us to carry out this project entitled ‘The Ikaite columns – past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic 2022 – 2025’. It’s been three very productive years including three field seasons in Ikka Fjord 2022, 2024, and 2025. Our activities include outreach through popular science talks, creation of underwater videos and an animation video featuring the ikaite columns and the diverse biological life inhabiting the columns, IKKA posters, a monitoring programme for Ikka Fjord on which parameters to monitor in the years to come, and deployment of 15 dataloggers on three columns to measure seawater parameters for a period of five years. Thanks to our two professional German divers from SUBMARIS, Florian Huber and Uli Kunz, we have been gifted with amazing photo and video material from Ikka Fjord and surroundings. If I were to pass on an advice, that would be to invest in high-quality photo material like we have acquired. It makes it so much easier to present your research to a broader audience, and more interesting. I want to thank all of our participants on this NAPA project, there have been many of you helping out: My two NAPA co-workers Susse Wegeberg and Lina Rasmusson, divers, researchers, students, soldiers, and not least our local logistical entrepreneur Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk. Without Kunuk we wouldn’t have been able to carry out this project, so my second advice would be to get local assistance in Greenland if you can. Thirdly, we highly recommend to apply to NAPA if you are planning a project in Greenland! We are honoured to see that NAPA has selected our project and outcomes as an example of what you can get out of their funding – read more here:

https://napa.gl/en/the-ikaite-columns-past-and-future-and-prospects-in-a-changing-arctic/

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Photo: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS. IKKA team summer 2025: Vivien Hotter, Erik Trampe, Florian Huber, Gabrielle Stockmann, and Paul Seaman (+ Kunuk Albrechtsen, not on picture).
Photo: Uli Kunz, SUBMARIS. IKKA team summer 2024: Susse Wegeberg, Lina Rasmusson, Erik Trampe, Rolf Darville, Petter Lundberg, Kunuk Albrechtsen, Florian Huber, Robin Svensson, Filip Nielsen, Paul Seaman, Gabrielle Stockmann, and Uli Kunz.
Photo: Gabrielle. IKKA team summer 2022: Bengt Liljebladh and Paul Seaman (+Gabrielle and Kunuk, not on photo).
Photo: Gabrielle. Always helpful Kunuk Albrechtsen from Arsuk 🙂
Photo: Gabrielle. Our two super talented divers and photographers: Florian Huber and Uli Kunz from SUBMARIS in Germany.
Photo: Uffe Wilken, 2026. We had posters made as part of an outreach activity featuring one of column photos taken by Uli Kunz in 2024. These have been used as gifts for people and organisations helping us on the NAPA project. This photo was taken at the Arctic Institute in Copenhagen, where director Anne Mette Randrup Jørgensen received the IKKA poster. The old warehouse hosting the Arctic Institute used to also host the Danish Polar Center, where the IKKA project started back in 1994 thanks to wildlife biologist Henning Thing.