Cover photo by Florian Huber, SUBMARIS 2025 ———— Thanks to IKKA colleague and diver, Florian Huber from the company SUBMARIS, we got in contact with journalist Alex Rühle from Süddeutsche Zeitung – a well-known and well-established newspaper from Bayern in Germany. This resulted in a......

Photos & text by Erik Sturkell In November 2025, the final part of the EU-funded project Nexus monARC took place. The project ended on Santorini and Milos with an excursion. Bengt Liljebladh and I decided to take part in the excursion and therefore travelled to......

Erik was invited by archeologist Anna Nyqvist Thorsson to Husaby Church near Skara in the Götene municipality. His task was to inspect the sandstone used in the construction of the church and the two impressive tombs lined up at each side at the entrance to......

Greenland newspaper Sermitsiaq has published a new article about our Ikka project. This time, a coverage of the fieldwork in Ikka Fjord this summer and what we hope to achieve with the dataloggers we deployed on three ikaite columns. The goal is to have long-term......

Text and photos by Erik Sturkell I arrived in Iceland on the 30th of July around two weeks after the start of the 16th of July volcanic eruption on Reykjanes. This eruption fissure followed the Sundhnukar crater row, and the lava flow didn’t threaten anything important, but......

Photo cover: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS, 2025 We have returned from a really successful field season in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. First of all, we were extremely lucky with the weather, which meant we could complete our most important task within the first three days. Namely,......

Featured photo by Uli Kunz, SUBMARIS 2024 The Greenland research portal ‘Arctic Hub’ has published an article about our IKKA project in three languages; Greenlandic, Danish, and English. At the same time, they feature the underwater videos made by Uli Kunz from last summer’s fieldwork......

Erik together with two of his colleagues Thomas Zack and Peter Keleman, and two BSc students from the University of Gothenburg went on a B and C granite excursion in the glorious weather this past Tuesday. They first went to a locality at Lindome and......

Photo credit: Florian Huber, SUBMARIS 2024 For some reason, the message hadn’t come across to us that Aage V. Jensens Fond in Denmark (https://www.avjf.dk/avjnf/) had granted us funding to invest in data loggers for measuring temperature and salinity among the ikaite columns in Ikka Fjord,......

Our Ikka-colleague Lina Rasmusson took part in the International Seaweed Symposium 2025 in Canada earlier this month presenting the biological results of our NAPA-project “The Ikaite columns – past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic”. The main focus has been to compare the......

The Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq has interviewed CEO Erik Trampe (see photo above by Gabrielle) about the Ikkaton – Climate Solutions company and the possibilities to install a Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) facility in Greenland: https://www.sermitsiaq.ag/samfund/co2-til-produktion/2231717 It sounds very promising, and Erik Trampe and......

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......

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......

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......

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,......

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......

The Nordic Volcanological Center (NordVulk) in Iceland can celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. Yet, at the same time year 2024 marks the end of NordVulk as we have known it these past 50 years. The funding from the Nordic Council has come to an......

Exciting times ahead with the launching of a new CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage) company led by CEO Erik Trampe (see featured photo by Gabrielle) – a colleague from the IKKA-project. Inspired by the natural processes of Ikka Fjord, we hope to make a......

I’m really happy to report that we got 11 team members home safely, and that the ikaite columns of Ikka Fjord appear to have recovered remarkably in the last couple of years. In certain areas of the fjord, they are teeming with life just like......

We are really grateful for being granted a third year of funding to our NAPA project ‘The Ikaite columns – past and future, and prospects in a changing Arctic 2022 – 2025’. The third year marks the final activities of this project that started in......