story – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Approach your career as if you were growing a tree, not building a house

mglessmer — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:41:16 +0000

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of being awarded my doctorate. Time flies! And as good a time as any to reflect on my career so far. I recently read the advice to approach something as if you were “growing a tree, not building a house”. It was in a slightly different context than career development, but […]

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Women in oceanography

mglessmer — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:25:11 +0000

I just found out that “Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later.” is out! The special issue on women in oceanography was published by The Oceanography Society, as a supplement to the December 2014 issue of Oceanography. It includes biographical sketches of over 200 awesome women oceanographers, many of which I know personally, some of which are close friends. I […]

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Guest post: Arctic sea ice thinning.

mglessmer — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:44:11 +0000

Exciting guest post on a newly published paper by Angelika H. H. Renner. I’ve met Angelika on a cruise in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current a long time ago where we worked on an instrument together and created an advent calendar to keep up everybody’s morale during the second month of the cruise before flying home on christmas eve, […]

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Hydrothermal springs

mglessmer — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:55:11 +0000

Hydrothermal springs that you can visit without a deep-sea submersible. When teaching about hydrothermal springs, I usually use a video a friend of mine took of hydrothermal vents on the mid-Atlantic ridge on the WHOI submersible Alvin. But being on Iceland now, there is much better material available which students can even go and experience […]

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Polar bears – or reason #7691 for why it is great to be an oceanographer

mglessmer — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 04:38:37 +0000

Polar bear photos from a cruise last year. Just because. Imagine you are on a research ship somewhere in the Greenland Sea. You are, as you have been for the previous days and weeks, standing in your lab, titrating oxygen. While you are rinsing bottles, you look out of the lab’s window. Your thoughts wander. […]

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A fetching title for a fetching photo post

mglessmer — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 05:38:37 +0000

Using a photo from one of my research cruises to explain the formation of wind waves. Wind waves are (surprise coming up!) waves generated by wind that blows over the ocean’s surface. The size of those waves depends on several factors: The strength of the wind, the length of time the wind has been blowing […]

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