The DIYnamics rotating table and our experiences with it

The inspiration for Torge’s and my PerLe teaching innovation project was a 2018 article by the DIYnamics team in which “affordable rotating fluid demonstrations for geoscience education” are presented. We were first intrigued, then excited, and since I have always wanted to have a rotating table to play with at home, there was nothing to […]

Giving Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics a new spin

oder: Man muss einfach vielmehr spielen! After teaching atmosphere and ocean dynamics (AOD) for a couple of years I wanted to introduce something new to this course, which is part of the BSc program Physik des Erdsystems (Physics of the Earth system) at Kiel University. The course is kind of a tutorial accompanying the lecture. […]

Hello world!

(für die deutsche Version bitte nach unten scrollen) Welcome to this blog, where we will be writing about teaching and learning of ocean, atmosphere and climate sciences in Kiel. We are, for now, Dr. Torge Martin and Dr. Mirjam Glessmer, but we are hoping to inspire other people to join us! This blog begins as […]