energie:labor – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

#SciCommChall: 10 pictures to illustrate my work

mglessmer — Thu, 10 May 2018 17:13:17 +0000

As part of May’s #SciCommChall I am presenting a collection of 10 pictures that illustrate who I am and what I am working on, within and outside of my job. Enjoy :-) — 1. This is where I work This is my office. I love this space! Even though it is a small room, I […]

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Presenting our new school lab on “energy in the climate system” at a conference

mglessmer — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:59:26 +0000

Next week we’ll be presenting out new lab on energy in the climate system (read more about it here) at a conference. The main focus is on actually presenting and conducting the experiments and showing and discussing the materials we developed, but I put together two posters to put up in some corner, to have […]

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The energy lab’s dry run. Or: I have a great team! :-)

mglessmer — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:40:05 +0000

At first, I wanted to call this blog post “behind the scenes of a school lab” until I looked through the pictures and realized that all I am showing is people sitting around my desk in my office! Actually, not only sitting — test-running all the experiments for our energie:labor! First, here is Julian’s experiment […]

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My new school lab on energy in the climate system has been launched! :-)

mglessmer — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:00:06 +0000

Today was a very exciting day: We launched my new school lab on energy in the climate system! The “energie:labor” is finally up and running again! Let me walk you through some of the stuff that is going on in the lab. Below, you see Mirko, who leads the station on the hydrological cycle, and […]

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Thumb wrestling, “Offshore”, and other simulation games

mglessmer — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 09:31:58 +0000

“Ready? Set! Aaaaand go!” was the command given at the start of a thumb wrestling war. In every pair of workshop participants, thumbs were being twisted, squeezed, freed again. We were given only 30 seconds to win! And then the time was over. “Who got how many points? Anybody more than 10?”. Nope. Most people only had […]

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energie:labor at European Researchers’ Night 2017

mglessmer — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:08:16 +0000

Yesterday Alice and I spent the afternoon and evening in the cute coastal town of Eckernförde, enjoying the summer-y weather, the Baltic Sea, and — of course! — the science outreach. It was European Researchers’ Night! We represented the energie:labor and our research group by entertaining many many people in our little blue tent: The goal […]

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Teacher training at Lotseninsel

mglessmer — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 06:15:03 +0000

As I mentioned yesterday, I recently contributed to a teacher training on Lotseninsel, a tiny island on the Baltic Sea coast. The training was run by the Ozean:Labor of the Kieler Forschungswerkstatt, and we spent Friday to Sunday there. I’m going to show you some impressions of that weekend here. At first, it did not look […]

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Playing with a ROV

mglessmer — Tue, 02 May 2017 11:24:18 +0000

The KiFo owns a ROV that — until now — has never been fully operational. But since I like a challenge (and have a really skilled research assistant who really deserves all the credit) it’s working again! We first went to test it in a tiny lake on campus. This was exciting enough, since it seemed […]

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