• The LOLEIF project is closed.

• For further public news see the web site of the STRICE project. 

• This web site is maintained and kept on-line until further notice. From time to time interesting or relevant results and entries will be added. Also links and functionality of this web site will be maintained.

Key results of the LOLEIF project were presented by several project participants on the 16^th International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions -  POAC '01 at the University of Ottawa (Canada) from August 12 to 17, 2001. 

• Simultaneously this meeting was the Official Kick-off for the STRICE project conducted within the 5th Framework Programme for Research and Development of the European Union under the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (EESD) Programme. STRICE stands for Measurements on STructures in ICE and will utilise, deepen and further refine the research results and experiences achieved in the LOLEIF project. 

• From  February 24, 2001 STRICE measurements were conducted on the Lighthouse  Norstrømsgrund in the Gulf of Bothnia (Northern Baltic Sea). Peter Jochmann endured of HSVA on the lighthouse for a period of 77 days to register ice forces, other relevant parameters and observations. He was supported by colleagues from LUT, HUT and VTT who joined in temporarily.

• A LOLEIF project meeting was held on November 20^th and 21^st, 2000 at HSVA in Hamburg (Germany).

• On June 27^th and 28^th, 2000 a LOLEIF project meeting was held at HSVA in Hamburg (Germany) .

• Intermediate results of the LOLEIF Project were presented by LOLEIF Advisor Dr. Karl Shkhinek⁽¹⁾ coauthored by Dr. Tuomo Kärnä⁽²⁾,   Solomon Kapustiansky⁽¹⁾ and Alexander Jilenkov⁽¹⁾ on occasion of the IAHR´00 Ice Symposium.
⁽¹⁾ St. Petersburg Technical University    -    ⁽²⁾ VTT- Building Technology

• Actual results of the LOLEIF Project were also presented on the EurOCEAN 2000 - The European Conference on Marine Science and Ocean Technology organised by the European Commission DG Research in Hamburg (Germany) from August 29^th to September 2^nd, 2000.

• On April 4^th and 5^th, 2000 a LOLEIF project meeting was held in Luleå hosted by LUT. 
• The project teams reported on progress and status of their research work in the different tasks and subtasks.
• Meetings of the project's Steering Committee and Advisory Group were held in this conjunction as well.
• Unfortunately the attendees could not visit Norstrømsgrund Lighthouse to get an impression of the ongoing measurements and a feeling of ice forces on the structure as helicopter transfer was impossible due to bad weather conditions and almost zero visibility. For the same reason the project manager Dr. Joachim Schwarz of HSVA who supervised the field work in advance of the meeting was trapped on the lighthouse and thus had to lead the meeting by intensive use of his cellular phone.