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! […]
In addition to our four DIYnamics-inspired rotating tanks, we now have a highly professional rotating table with SO MANY options! And also so much unboxing and constructing and trouble-shooting to do before it works. But we finished the first successful test: wanna see some rotating coffee in which milk is added? Then check this out!
Auch wenn es zunächst nicht so scheinen mag: Einen Beitrag für einen wissenschaftlichen Blog zu schreiben ist nicht schwer. Ein paar Tipps und Tricks können helfen, dass er auch gelesen wird. Die Wissenschaftsjournalistin Dr. Yasmin Appelhans war heute im Kurs zu Gast. Hier schreibt sie über verständliches Formulieren, Kernbotschaften und die persönliche Ansprache in Blogs. […]
“Wyneberg, Wyneberg” – a hooting Minibus taxi is racing past us on the way to the upper campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT), a man hangs half out the front-passengers window, smiling and whistling at us. Us being Matthew and Silja, Team South Africa, in short: Team SA, ready to revive the GAME […]
A while back, Susann Tegtmeier and Mirjam ran a PerLe teaching innovation project together. Today, we are reposting a blog post about one of the experiments they implemented. This post was first published on Mirjam’s blog. No one likes clouds when they bring rain, but what if you could make your own? Making a cloud […]
Neulich haben wir hier im Blog die Saildrones vorgestellt, die uns bei der #MOSESeddyhunt unterstützen, unser Messnetz erweitern und die Untersuchung der Ozeanwirbel effektiver machen. Sie sind aber nicht die einzigen autonomen Geräte, die derzeit die Gewässer rund um die Kapverden befahren und durchtauchen, um uns möglichst viele Daten aus den mobilen Ozean-Wirbeln zu liefern. […]