Text and photos by Erik Sturkell (and Michelle Parks) This year I made the fieldwork in Iceland around the volcano Askja with support from the metrological office and with funding from the Donation’s Foundation at the University of Gothenburg. In total we were seven persons......

Text and photos by Erik Sturkell Between the 8th – 18th of July fieldwork was performed in the Lockne area in Jämtland. It was planned that Gabrielle, Erik and the dogs should join colleague Jens Ormö in Jämtland, but the puppy Becky had stomach problem and therefore......

Cover photo by Elin Tollefsen, Grønnedal summer 2014 By joint effort, my ex-husband Lars Teken Christensen and I have donated one of the Ivittuut stones brought home from the first IKKA expedition by the University of Copenhagen as a memorial stone for the fallen soldiers......

Thanks to two successful applications, the Ikkaton – Climate Solutions Aps company has now secured funding for two separate CCUS projects. One Grand Solutions of approximately 18 million Danish kroner from the Innovation Fund Denmark (https://innovationsfonden.dk/en), and another grant of approximately nine million Danish kroner......

Cover photo by Florian Huber, SUBMARIS 2025 SVT Väst has been to visit us at Natrium, University of Gothenburg. Reporter Kerstin Siwertsson had read the portrait article in GU journalen and was curious to hear more about the IKKA project and how climate change leads......

Marine biologist Lina Rasmusson and I were invited to take part in a webinar at the University of Gothenburg under the framework of Sea & Society Talks. The topic was Ikka Fjord in Greenland and the results of our recently finished NAPA project mentioned in......

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,......

The final major work on Geologists in movies Featured in the magazine Geology Today: Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel In spring 2026, a new article about geologists in movies got published. The article is in the category “Feature” with the reference: Sturkell, E., Sjöqvist,......

There has been a massive interest in Greenland in recent months, understandably. With my background in Greenland, both as a researcher and as a child living in Nuuk 1978 -1981, I’m more than happy to share my knowledge. Greenland is still like a second home......

We are happy and proud to have been part of two science awards granted to students / co-workers collaborating on our science projects. First, a big applause to Luca Smeraglia from the Institute of Geology and Environmental Geoengineering, National Research Council in Rome, Italy who......

Erik and I just returned from the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting 2026 (https://ngwm2026.fi), which was held in Åbo in Finland, also called Turku in Finnish. This is the place Erik goes to every second year to teach Geophysics at Åbo Akademi. Thus, he knows both......

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......