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
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 […]
Today we are looking back at a homework assignment that Joke Lübbecke gave her students 5 years ago, but that’s still interesting & relevant and also a lot of fun! The task is easy: “estimate salinity of this water sample!”. But how do you do that? Here are three different ways to solve the problem Estimating […]
One might ask oneself why we are insisting on rotating tank experiments. In order to establish that rotation isn’t just there to make equations a lot more complicated, but that it actually changes how things behave, we ran two different experiments. Turbulence in rotating and non-rotating system First the probably easiest experiment anyone could imagine: […]
Yesterday Torge and I spent a fun Friday night trying out new rotating tank experiments together with Rolf Käse. Rolf taught the lab course that got me into tank experiments (back in 2004!) and he’s still such a huge inspiration! Rolf brought his tank which features a conical bottom, and this gives so many more […]
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 […]
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. […]
(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 […]