SUSTAIN drilling at Surtsey volcano, Iceland, tracks hydrothermal and microbiological interactions in basalt 50 years after eruption All SUSTAIN team members are co-authors on this article. W...Read More
The 2017 Surtsey drill core has arrived at its new home at the Iceland Institute for Natural History (NÁTTÚRUFRÆÐISTOFNUN ÍSLANDS), where it is stored with the drill core acquired in 1979. Much w...Read More
Nearly 700 m of drill core were scanned and described in the Heimaey core processing laboratory from August 10 – September 27. Photograph by M. T. Guðmundsson On September 28-30, all th...Read More
Today, the 7th and 8th grade girls (Unnur, Bertha, Thorgerdur Katrin, Eva and Maria Fonn) of the Heimaey Chapter of Scouts International explored the Surtsey drill core. Everyone got to observe minera...Read More
The demobilization of the SUSTAIN drilling operation has begun. The Coast Ship ICGV Þór and Super Puma helicopter TF-Líf are in the process of transporting the camp and drill site equipment bac...Read More
According to Kristján Jónasson, curator at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History, this is a fragment of gneiss, an metamorphic rock, most likely Precambrian in age (at least 541 million ye...Read More
On September 8 and 9 Icelandic artist Anna Guðrún Líndal visited our Heimaey laboratory. She made many photos and videos, exploring the Surtsey drill core and our warehouse surroundings. She saw be...Read More
The science team works on washing core (top 1 and 2). After washing, it is directly transferred to the DMT scanner in order to be imaged (top 3). The DMT can rotate core 360 degrees (video 1, below), ...Read More