Oceanography experiments deluxe: JuniorAkademie
A week-long workshop for school kids on ocean and climate, using both tank experiments and numerical models. [deutscher Text unten]
Be warned: I will post a lot over the next 8 days. And that is because I am attending the JuniorAkademie “Wind und Meer” in Bad Bederkesa in Lower Saxony, Germany. The JuniorAkademie is aimed at school pupils grade 7-10, and together with Rolf Käse and Martin Vogt I’ll be a Lernprovokateur, a learning-provoker, for a group of 17 students interested in oceanography and climate. We will run experiments and do numerical modeling and have a lot of fun together. I am very excited to be here!
Über die nächsten 8 Tage werde ich live und in Farbe aus Bad Bederkesa, Niedersachsen, berichten. Ich bin hier auf der JuniorAkademie “Wind und Meer”, wo ich zusammen mit Rolf Käse und Martin Vogt ein Lernprovokateur für die 17 Schüler bin, die am Workshop “Ozeanographie: Meeresströmungen und Klimaforschung” teilnehmen. Wir werden gemeinsam Experimente und numerische Modellierung durchführen und eine Menge Spaß zusammen haben! Ich freue mich sehr, hier zu sein!
The effects of rotation on a collapsing column | Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching says:
[…] but then the v-belt on the rotation table failed [but luckily this was on the last night of the JuniorAkademie, so we had otherwise run everything we had been planning to run], so we ended up with a […]
Simulations of hetonic explosions | Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching says:
[…] were set up such as to ensure that one single column would persist in the middle of the tank. At JuniorAkademie, we’ve also run it in other setups, to form dipoles or quadrupoles. For a real hetonic […]
Influence of stratification on mixing | Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching says:
[…] is an experiment that Martin and I ran at the JuniorAkademie this summer, but since I posted soooo much back than (just look for the tag […]
Collapsing column | says:
[…] posted a lot while at JuniorAkademie a while back, so it is hard to believe there are still experiments from that time that I […]
More interference of waves, this time as seen “at sea” | says:
[…] really exciting thing working with the kids here at the JuniorAkademie is that they are really good at transferring things that we talk about theoretically to what they […]
Fictitious forces (1/5): Record players and Coriolis deflection | Mirjam S. Glessmer says:
[…] did this at JuniorAkademie by taping a piece of paper on a record player, putting it into motion and then, at as constant a […]