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January 1, 2025

/ˈkɪtʃɪn ˌəʊʃəˈnɒɡrəfi/ noun Experimenting with ocean physics using only household items Observing oceanographic processes in, or during the preparation of, food and drinks DIYnamics: Rotating tank experiments based on LEGO…

Finally published yesterday: “Student guides: supporting learning from laboratory experiments through across-course collaboration” by Daae et al. (2023)

October 7, 2023

A project near and dear to my heart is using the DIYnamics rotating tank experiments in across-course collaborations. “Older” students, who did experiments the previous year, are trained to then…

Preparing conference presentations on our DIYnamics experiments in across-course collaborative learning

March 15, 2023

In 2021, Kjersti and I gave a presentation at iSSOTL on our across-course collaboration project using rotating lab experiments. We’ve continued working with that, and Kjersti is presenting two posters…

Artikel “Praxisnähe dank digitaler Versuchsküche” von P. Mertsching über remote #KitchenOceanography

November 20, 2020

Im “eMagazin für aktuelle Themen der Hochschuldidaktik” der Uni Kiel ist der Artikel “Praxisnähe dank digitaler Versuchsküche” von Phil Mertsching über Torge’s und mein Projekt “Dry Theory 2 Juicy Reality”, insbesondere…

Alles andere als trockene Theorie (Repost)

August 31, 2020

Unser “DryTheory2JuicyReality” Projekt wurde durch den PerLe-Fonds für Lehrinnovation gefördert. Hier ist ein Repost eines Beitrages, den ich für den Blog “Einfach gute Lehre” geschrieben habe. „Meeresströmungen im Wassertank“: Lehre, die Wissenschaft…

A scicomm comic on Rossby waves and hands-on teaching

August 27, 2020

Last year in pre-social distancing times, Torge and I brought hands-on rotating tank experiments into his “atmosphere and ocean dynamics” class. The “dry theory to juicy reality” project was a…

Tilting frontal surface under rotation / cylinder collapse

June 16, 2020

Torge and I are planning to run the “tilting of a frontal surface under rotation / cylinder collapse” experiment as “remote kitchen oceanography” in his class on Thursday, so I’ve…

Rotating vs non-rotating turbulence

June 9, 2020

Last Thursday, Torge & I invited his “atmosphere & ocean dynamics class” to a virtual excursion into my kitchen — to do some cool experiments. As you know, I have…

A common misconception in rotating tank experiments, and one way of maybe not reinforcing it

June 5, 2020

A very common misconception when looking at atmosphere & ocean dynamics in a rotating tank is that the center of the tank represents one of the poles and the edge…

Solid body rotation

May 30, 2020

Several of my friends were planning on teaching with DIYnamics rotating tables right now. Unfortunately, that’s currently impossible. Fortunately, though, I have one at home and enjoy playing with it enough…

Thermal forcing vs rotation tank experiments in more detail than you ever wanted to know

May 25, 2020

This is the long version of the two full “low latitude, laminar, tropical Hadley circulation” and “baroclinic instability, eddying, extra-tropical circulation” experiments. A much shorter version (that also includes the…

Thermal forcing vs rotation

May 23, 2020

The first experiment we ever ran with our DIYnamics rotating tank was using a cold beer bottle in the center of a rotating tank full or lukewarm water. This experiment is…

Ekman layers in my kitchen

May 21, 2020

Several of my friends were planning on teaching with DIYnamics rotating tables right now. Unfortunately, that’s currently impossible. Fortunately, though, I have one at home and enjoy playing with it enough…

Rossby-#WaveWatchingWednesday

May 20, 2020

Several of my friends were planning on teaching with DIYnamics rotating tables right now. Unfortunately, that’s currently impossible. Fortunately, though, I have one at home and enjoy playing with it enough…

Reposting my “field report” for the DIYnamics blog

March 13, 2020

Reposting a guest post I wrote for the @DIYnamicsTeam‘s blog: When we came across the DIYnamics article right after its publication, Torge and I (Mirjam) were very excited about the…

Giving it a side eye: Why we use high-walled tanks on our rotating table #FlumeFriday

January 31, 2020

Inspired by a recent twitter comment on how our tanks are higher-walled than those usually used on the DIYnamics rotating tables, today I’ll talk about why we went for those.…

New rotating table on #FlumeFriday! Welcome to the family!

January 10, 2020

In addition to our four DIYnamics-inspired rotating tanks, we now have a highly professional rotating table with SO MANY options! And also so much unboxing and constructing and trouble-shooting to…

If one rotating table is awesome, four rotating tables are…?

October 24, 2019

I’m actually at a loss for words. Amazing? Spectacular? So much fun? All of that! Today was the first time Torge and I tried our four DIYnamics-inspired rotating tables in…

Planetary Rossby waves

September 28, 2019

I ran my new favourite experiment again, the planetary Rossby waves. They work super well on the DIYnamics table we built in Kiel and they also worked really well the other…

Planetary Rossby waves on Beta-plane. A super easy tank experiment!

September 13, 2019

This is seriously one of the easiest tank experiments I have ever run! And I have been completely overthinking it for the last couple of weeks. Quick reminder: This is…

Spinning dye curtain — when a tank full of water has not reached solid body rotation yet

August 26, 2019

With all the rotating tank experiments I’ve been showing lately, one thing that comes up over and over again is the issue of solid body rotation. On our DIYnamics-inspired turntable for…

Baroclinic instabilities / Hadley cell circulation in a tank

August 23, 2019

The DIYnamics-inspired turntable that Torge and myself have been working on for our “dry theory to juicy reality” project is finally working well! This is what the setup now looks…

Working on our own affordable rotating table for oceanographic experiments!

July 6, 2019

Inspired by the article “Affordable Rotating Fluid Demonstrations for Geoscience Education: the DIYnamics Project” by the Hill et al. (2018), Joke, Torge and I have been wanting to build an affordable…

My first attempt at building a rotating table for kitchen oceanography using LEGO

January 27, 2019

Inspired by the article “Affordable Rotating Fluid Demonstrations for Geoscience Education: the DIYnamics Project” by the Hill et al. (2018), I spent a fun Sunday afternoon with my friends Joke and…

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Finally published yesterday: “Student guides: supporting learning from laboratory experiments through across-course collaboration” by Daae et al. (2023)

Preparing conference presentations on our DIYnamics experiments in across-course collaborative learning

Artikel “Praxisnähe dank digitaler Versuchsküche” von P. Mertsching über remote #KitchenOceanography

Alles andere als trockene Theorie (Repost)

A scicomm comic on Rossby waves and hands-on teaching

Tilting frontal surface under rotation / cylinder collapse

Rotating vs non-rotating turbulence

A common misconception in rotating tank experiments, and one way of maybe not reinforcing it

Solid body rotation

Thermal forcing vs rotation tank experiments in more detail than you ever wanted to know

Thermal forcing vs rotation

Ekman layers in my kitchen

Rossby-#WaveWatchingWednesday

Reposting my “field report” for the DIYnamics blog

Giving it a side eye: Why we use high-walled tanks on our rotating table #FlumeFriday

New rotating table on #FlumeFriday! Welcome to the family!

If one rotating table is awesome, four rotating tables are…?

Planetary Rossby waves

Planetary Rossby waves on Beta-plane. A super easy tank experiment!

Spinning dye curtain — when a tank full of water has not reached solid body rotation yet

Baroclinic instabilities / Hadley cell circulation in a tank

Working on our own affordable rotating table for oceanographic experiments!

My first attempt at building a rotating table for kitchen oceanography using LEGO

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