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
Puffins are a common sight in Heimaey this time of year–nesting season. The baby puffins can be confused by the city lights and fly into town instead of to the ocean. Children can be seen collec...Read More
The scientific team on Heimaey to a trip out to the south part of Vestmannaeyjar. At this location, there are similar deposits to those found on Surtsey. Photograph by Cédric Hamelin....Read More
Aluminum casing is used to house the sub-surface observatory. The casing has holes drilled into it at five different depths to allow hydrothermal fluids to interact with samples located at those depth...Read More