#SciCommChall Archives - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Can your favouite beverage tell you what your reseach as an ocean scientist should be on?

June 8, 2021

fortune teller

A “fortune teller” for #WorldOceanDay! What would you work on if you were an ocean scientist? And if you are an ocean scientist — are you doing the work you…

Preparing a “fortune teller” for #WorldOceanDay

June 5, 2021

I thought I would try a playful approach to ocean sciences for #WorldOceanDay on Tuesday. When I think back to my PhD and postdoc days, I could well imagine printing…

My wave watching picture book for kids is out!

April 21, 2021

A wave watching book for beginners and those who appreciate the art and science of wave watching! Now available to order here or via any book store or online dealer…

DIY #WaveWatching “fortune teller” on #WaveWatchingWednesday

December 9, 2020

(Download in English || Download in Spanish; thanks to Felipe Veloso for translating!) How about a little wave watching game to celebrate #WaveWatchingWednesday? The minute I saw Andrea Lopez Lang’s…

Visualizing boundary layers using rheoscopic fluid

October 10, 2020

Or: How does momentum get transferred from a rotating tank to the water? I recently noticed — and it was confirmed by observations and student feedback that my friend Kjersti…

A #WaveWatching memory game for #SciCommChall

June 7, 2020

So I don’t know if this is a good idea that anyone would actually want to play with. But when I was visiting my sister last week, she was working…

March’s #SciCommChall: My personal branding statement

May 18, 2020

For March’s #SciCommChall, Alice gave us a super cool challenge with really helpful instructions to come up with our own “personal branding statements”. And here I am following her instructions…

#SciCommChall: Science in just one Instagram story post

April 5, 2020

#SciCommChall

I’ve really been slacking on the #SciCommChall front recently. So here we go with my contribution to April’s #SciCommChall: Science in just one Instagram story post! Here is one: And…

What’s in Mirjam’s bag? #SciCommChall

January 26, 2020

My friend Nena has taken over #SciCommChall and gives us super fun monthly challenges to practice our scicomm muscles and try out new things. I love a good challenge, and…

#SciCommSunday: The reason why I choose to post selfies on my #SciComm Social Media

January 19, 2020

“I don’t want my face on the internet!”, “My science should speak for itself, it shouldn’t matter who I am as a person!”, “I just don’t like what I look…

November #WaveWatching: A summary of my daily Instagram

December 1, 2019

All throughout November, I’ve posted pretty much daily to my #WaveWatching Insta @fascinocean_kiel. And here are all the posts for you! If you prefer daily updates, why not follow my…

November’s #SciCommChall: Science communication on coasters!

November 6, 2019

Remember #SciCommChall? I started it almost 2 years ago and have recently felt a little burnt out when it came to coming up with new challenges and motivating people to…

October #wavewatching: reposting my Instagram posts

November 1, 2019

Instagram

My scicomm Instagram @fascinocean_kiel is back! As in it’s something that I am putting more thought into again. While it started off strong almost two years ago with daily posts…

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean”

September 7, 2019

#sciart

The third and final illustration I made of my favourite ocean quotes that you (in this case, Astrid) submitted to celebrate my blog’s 6th Birthday with me!

“Using social media in science communication — the Kiel Science Outreach Campus shows how it’s done” (part 2)

July 14, 2019

One of the 2018 achievements that I feel pretty proud of is developing a social media strategy for the science communication research project Kiel Science Outreach Campus, and implementing it together…

Experimenting with Insta stories for my wave watching scicomm

June 27, 2019

Inspired by the absolutely brilliant job that Kati is doing for my project GEO-Tag der Natur, I have recently started experimenting with “Insta stories” on the topic of wave watching.…

Why “But I don’t have anything interesting to say, I am just teaching a block course right now” is not a good excuse for not tweeting

May 21, 2019

Sometimes I feel like I have pressured all my friends into using social media for their science communication. Today I was talking to Kristin, who was apologetic about not having…

Thinking about giveaways for my scicomm consultancy for April’s #scicommchall

April 6, 2019

Be warned — this is a long blog post without a real conclusion at the end. You are very welcome to read it, but I’m writing it mostly for myself…

Using giveaways as a tool in science communication. Post #3: Checklist and logistics

March 29, 2019

Many big research projects and institutions regularly spend a lot of money on things like pens, mugs, canvas bags, or even pool noodles (I kid you not, one of my…

Using giveaways as a tool in science communication. Post #2: Designing the actual giveaway

March 28, 2019

Many big research projects and institutions regularly spend a lot of money on things like pens, mugs, canvas bags, or even pool noodles (I kid you not, one of my…

Using giveaways as a tool in science communication. Post #1: What the literature tells us

March 27, 2019

Many big research projects and institutions regularly spend a lot of money on things like pens, mugs, canvas bags, or even pool noodles (I kid you not, one of my…

Vernissage of water sculpture photography by Wlodek Brühl, with explanations of the physics behind the pictures by yours truly!

February 19, 2019

I am a huuuge fan of Wlodek Brühl’s liquid art: Pictures of water sculptures that are created with focus on the tiniest of details, that only persist for milliseconds, but…

My “GEO-Tag der Natur” elevator pitch

January 29, 2019

#geotagdernatur

Yesterday on #scicommchall, I shared my elevator pitch. Still not inside an elevator, but now that I have my elevator pitch down to short and sweet (it’s really only 30…

An attempt at an elevator pitch

January 11, 2019

I’ve been coming up with #scicommchall challenges for well over a year now, and I have always met them. Except for last November, when the challenge was to do an…

My nine most successful Instagram pictures of 2018 #2018bestnine

January 9, 2019

Interesting year-in-review: despite amazing photo opportunities in Cyprus and Norway and other beautiful places, the Kiel fjord is clearly dominating my most successful Instagram posts of 2018 (only two are…

Using social media in science communication — the Kiel Science Outreach Campus shows how it’s done

January 8, 2019

One of the 2018 achievements that I feel most proud of is developing a social media strategy for the science communication research project Kiel Science Outreach Campus, and implementing it together…

Cool podcast about oceanography! Also useful if you were looking to improve your German! ;-)

January 5, 2019

Just in case you have not listened to Ronja and Maxie’s podcast Treibholz yet, you definitely should! Ronja and Maxie are learning about oceanography and taking everyone along with them.…

Dipping my toes into podcasting: “Treibholz” with Maxie and Ronja!

December 17, 2018

Last month I got the super exciting opportunity to participate in a podcast! Maxie and Ronja are running the oceanography podcast Treibholz (“driftwood”) and I got to be in it!…

This week I am taking over @IAmScicomm!

October 8, 2018

You might think that I’d be busy enough with my visiting fellowship at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen this month, and you would be right. However, I’ve…

A #scicommbookforkids for #scicommchall

September 14, 2018

I hope by now you have heard about my pet project of the moment: #scicommchall! For #scicommchall, I give myself (and quite a few other people by now) monthly challenges…

Interview on #scicommchall! (in german)

September 13, 2018

I recently gave an interview on my current pet project, #scicommchall. The interview was done by Anne Weißschädel, and published on THE German website on science communication research and practice,…

Guest post: Using seawater to make bread!

August 22, 2018

Last week I got one of the coolest emails I have ever received: Someone had found my blog while googling for the salt content of seawater in order to use…

The proof of concept phase is over! My Instagram in July, and what’s the plan now.

August 18, 2018

Instagram

So what’s going on with my Instagram fascinocean_kiel? Plenty of things are changing! In July, I stuck to the strategy I had developed for my private #scicommchall. But then in…

“Thing to figure out a lot of water” — can you explain your research using only the most common 1000 words?

August 1, 2018

Do you remember I started #SciCommChall, the science communication challenge, earlier this year? Once a month I challenge myself and everybody else who is interested in trying a fun new…

Making of my new book! Part 4: Proofs are here! :-)

July 24, 2018

Proofs are here! So exciting! :-) Here is a sneak peek: I’m using “Books on Demand“, a german self-publishing company, to print my books. I have had really good experiences…

Making of my new book! Part 3: Sketching

July 6, 2018

So now that I knew I wanted to do the book in water colours, and with fairly realistically-looking people in it, I started sketching out what I wanted individual images…

Making of my new book! Part 2: Deciding on style and colors

July 4, 2018

When November came around, I needed to actually stop imagining the book I wanted to give to Line for Christmas, I had to start creating. But where to start? I…

Making of my new book! Part 1: The story

July 1, 2018

This one has been a long time in the making. Last year, I wrote and illustrated a book for my goddaughter as a Christmas present. I didn’t manage to finish…

My June on Instagram

June 29, 2018

Even though I am too busy — and then too lazy — to write blogposts most of the time, there are other places where you can hear from me quite…

Presenting the KiSOC at Kiel Week 2018

June 22, 2018

Extremely busy times around here — if you follow my Instagram, you know I’ve been travelling like crazy recently and the “Kiel” in @fascinocean_kiel has been sadly lacking… But: We’ve…

My Instagram in May

June 2, 2018

Instagram

Even though I started my Instagram @fascinocean_kiel mainly as a proof of concept thing that I wanted to do for one month only to be able to put it on my…

#SciCommChall: 10 pictures to illustrate my work

May 10, 2018

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.…

Interview: Mirjam as a #DigitalScientist (in german)

May 10, 2018

Remember my March #SciCommChall which resulted in me starting my scicomm Instagram account @fascinocean_kiel? Turns out that was a pretty successful move measured by metrics that I didn’t even think…

“Wimmelbild” of a research ship

May 2, 2018

research cruise

Wanna know why I am drawing a research ship “Wimmelbild”*? Check out the blog post over at our #SciCommChall blog to find out why! And while you are there, why not…

My April on Instagram

May 1, 2018

Instagram

Yes, I have been slacking on the blogging front. But I’ve been very active somewhere else: On Instagram! My account @fascinocean_kiel has been updated almost daily over the last month (I…

Working on the April #SciCommChall. And looking at water. Perfect day!

April 8, 2018

Wanna join us for #SciCommChall? Check out our website https://scicommchall.org and social media (Twitter @scicommchall, Instagram @scicommchall, Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/scicommchall/)! I am very excited about this new pet project of mine :-)

My March on Instagram

March 29, 2018

My private #SciCommChall for March was to start a science communication Instagram account, fascinocean_kiel. I had a pretty clear idea of where I wanted to go with this account: The…

Are you following fascinocean_kiel on Instagram already? You definitely should!

March 16, 2018

fascinocean_kiel is my latest scicomm project — I am posting daily pictures from Kiel fjord together with a german description of some cool oceanography stuff you can see on the…

Proudly presenting: #SciCommChall – the science communication challenge!

March 13, 2018

It’s been a little while in the making, but now it’s official and I invite you to join our #scicommchall! #SciCommChall is a science communicator community-based challenge with the goal…

Dipping a toe into instagramming

March 4, 2018

#SciCommChall

This month’s private* #scicommchall: Run a scicomm Instagram feed! See the feed below. I’m doing this for several reasons: First: curiosity, how Instagram works for me personally as a scicomm…

How not to communicate climate change: Lessons learned from the movie “Frozen” #scipoem

November 27, 2017

Frozen As this poem’s hero was chosen Olaf, the snowman in Frozen who dislikes the cold (or so we’ve been told) despite d’pending on it to stay frozen He’s telling…

Not an infographic, not SciArt, yet strangely satisfying: I drew my CV :-)

November 8, 2017

I’ve recently become interested in making infographics for science communication purposes. As in: I’ve been wanting to learn how to do it, but I’ve never gotten around to actually do…

A #SciPoem about sitting on a rotating tank all day long

October 23, 2017

#scipoem

Are you following our updates from the 13-m-diameter pool on a merry-go-round? If not, you definitely should! Because it is super exciting, but also because this poem will make a…

“What’s the weirdest thing that has happened to you in your line of work?” and other fun questions in our “ask me anything!” event HAPPENING NOW!

October 18, 2017

Come ask us anything on here, on the #OceanAMA, on reddit! :-) Or tell us about the weirdest thing that has happened to YOU in your line of work!

“A brief history of climate in the Nordic Seas” — A #scipoem

October 16, 2017

A brief history of climate in the Nordic Seas* Understanding of climate change explaining a record’s full range playing the cause-and-effect game needs a closed, mechanistic frame data: proxies or…

Greenhouse Gases — A #SciPoem

October 9, 2017

Greenhouse Gases Air around us: full of water Vapour, clouds or rain Warmer air holds more. A feedback. CO2 belongs in the air Volcanoes or Breathing cattle Not burnt fossils…

“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal”: A #SciPoem

October 2, 2017

“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal” This quote’s source: the IPCC On what in total ninety-sev’n Percent of scientists agree The evidence of climate change Risen…

“Grubletegninger” — using sketches presenting alternative explanations of a situation to spark discussions

October 1, 2017

#SciCommChall

In my personal #SciCommChallenge, one thing on my things-to-try list were “grubletegninger” — pondering sketches, or sketches to ponder. It’s a format developed in Norway and there is quite a…

Response of the ACC to climate change #scipoem

September 25, 2017

The response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to recent climate change* Around and around the southern pole The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, inspiring Around and around the southern pole Seemingly without…

Ask me anything! on October 18th #OceanAMA

September 20, 2017

Hi! I am Mirjam. We are investigating ocean currents in a 13-m-diameter swimming pool that sits on a merry-go-round. Ask me anything! I will be hosting an “Ask Me Anything”…

#scipoem on an Darelius et al. article about ice shelves

September 18, 2017

“Observed vulnerability of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to wind-driven inflow of warm deep water”* Let’s talk ab’t a favourite paper “Observed vulnerability of Filchner- Ronne Ice Shelf to wind-driven inflow of…

Tale of arctic melting and deep water formation #scipoem

September 11, 2017

Tale of arctic melting and deep water formation Freshwater freezes long before saltwater does, and it also floats on top of saltwater. In the Nordic Seas, deep waters are formed.…

A #scipoem on upwelling of tropical OMZ waters in a warmer climate

September 4, 2017

“Simulated reduction in upwelling of tropical oxygen minimum waters in a warmer climate”* Let’s pick apart this article’s title, inaccessible to most people out there. Even though we know it…

Double the trouble — a poem about double-diffusive mixing in the ocean

August 28, 2017

On my blog’s fourth Birthday (!!!), it’s time to try something new. How about some celebratory oceanographic poetry? Obviously the topic has to be my oceanic pet process, double-diffusive mixing……

Help me name my book!

June 16, 2016

If you like my blog, you will LOVE my book. It’s an alternative travel guide: Instead of talking about sights you can see when you visit a city, I am talking…

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