by Melina Mehlmann The last couple of days have strongly been influenced by the search for ‘Eddy’. What does he look like? What are his dimensions? Where does he hide? For the Eddy search we have used all of our resources. Six physical oceanographic instruments are now used in turn. A moving vessel profiler is […]
(Eine zweite Version auf deutsch findest Du im unteren Teil des Blogbeitrags!) Non dormo. Come potrei del resto, sono le otto. Sono stesa nel letto e sotto di me, intorno a me, il mare sbatte, rantola e sputa. Sento la forza dell’acqua schiantarsi sul guscio di questa nave, immagino la spuma, ondeggio. E poi i […]
Was haben der Polarjet, ein Wassertank und Lebensmittelfarbe gemeinsam? Um das zu verstehen, haben wir im Laufe unseres Studiums eigenständig verschiedene Experimente mit rotierenden Wassertanks, Lebensmittelfarbe und Eiswürfeln durchgeführt. Ganz nach dem Motto: Bitte zuhause nachmachen! Ihr seid neugierig geworden, was es damit auf sich hat? Findet es selbst heraus mit der Geschichte zweier Wassertropfen. […]
We are a group of undergraduate students studying Physics of the Earth System. We love science. We love that at Geomar we can study super exciting aspects of the Earth System in very small groups. And we love formulas and mathematics, well to a certain extend at least 🙂 This is where the buckets come into play… […]
Yesterday we changed the setup of the W Band radar to better look at the clouds I (Claudia Acquistapace) am interested in puffy clouds, like in cartoons. It is unbelievable that these small puffy clouds really matter for the climate of the entire planet. But that’s what we found, and that’s why we are here. […]
Eberhard Bodenschatz January 19, we made a test flight of Tiny 1 (T1, the 250 m3 Helikite) and the spherical 180 m3 floatation balloon “Augsburg”. Things went “okay”. The 7m tethered spherical balloon did not fly as expected. As we needed to fill it only to 70% of full (due to expansion at 2km) the sphere […]
Using “One should really play more!” as title of a presentation in a serious scientific colloquium might seem like a bold move, but the gamble payed off: a large, interested audience including everyone from students to professors enthusiastically dropped ice cubes and food dye in our LEGO-driven rotating tanks and passionately discussed their observations. On […]
What happened? What did I learnt? First of all, now, finally, I can say I know what sea sickness is. And I also learnt that you can get out of it. Well, ok, I still need some breaks while writing, in which I just lay down and look at the ceiling. Those are the moments […]
The first couple of days at Barbados were used to recharge all human sunlight batteries to be switched to operating mode at any time. On the ship, loading was done successfully and after all boxes were unpacked, stored, and lushed, we (the physical oceanography team) were missing one of those carefully packed away boxes without […]
Yesterday we had four rotating in operation simultaneously, running three different experiments. It’s pretty awesome to be able to bridge spin-up times by just observing what the teams on the neighboring tables are up to, also it’s nice to get a variety of experiments all happening at the same time. Very entertaining and educational indeed! […]