Ocean climate change is a hot topic. Studying the ocean is cool! We share our excitement on teaching first principals and simple relationships in ocean and atmospheric sciences More info
“Kitchen Oceanography” means doing simple experiments with household items and learning a lot about ocean physics along the way. The “24 days of kitchen oceanography” advent calendar is a perfect way to get involved! From December 1st, there will be daily experiments posted all throughout to the 24th — come over and join in the […]
This is the longer version of the (A4!) poster that I presented on behalf of myself, Kjersti Daae, Elin Darelius, Joke Lübbecke and Torge Martin at the #FieldWorkFix conference last Tuesday (September 8, 2020). If you would rather listen to the voiceover than read the transcript below, please feel free to do that! (Thanks to Torge, the voice over […]
The affordable rotating LEGO tables that we’ve been using for the last year were developed by the DIYnamics Team. This is a repost of a guest post that I wrote for their blog: When we came across the DIYnamics article right after its publication, Torge and I (Mirjam) were very excited about the endless possibilities we saw opening up […]
When we started our “dry theory to juicy reality” project, our goal was to bring ocean and atmosphere dynamics to life and get students excited about investigating them in a rotating tank. Judging from all the feedback we got, this seems to have worked really well! Read Johanna Knauf’s comic for a student’s perception of […]
Über eine Lehrinnovation, die auf Kleingruppenarbeit und „hands-on“-Praxiselemente setzte – und was in Zeiten von Covid-19 daraus wurde. Hier ein Repost eines Beitrages, den wir für den “Einfach gute Lehre”-Blog geschrieben haben: In der Lehrveranstaltung „Atmosphären- und Ozeandynamik” im Bachelorstudiengang Physik des Erdsystems wird das theoretische Grundgerüst zum Verständnis der globalen Bewegung von Luft- und […]
This semester is turning out a little different from what we had hoped, but it has presented the opportunity to try our new things: Torge and his class join me in my kitchen! I log into their online class with two devices, one looking at the tank from the top, the other looking from the […]
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 […]
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!
Doing experiments like the ones we’ve been doing here is super helpful to let students of ocean and atmosphere sciences find a different way to approach highly theoretical rotating fluid dynamics. But the experiments are pretty and are raising curiosity not only in students, but in most people that see them. To share them with […]