comic – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

A scicomm comic on Rossby waves and hands-on teaching

mglessmer — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:05:28 +0000

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 lot of fun — the affordable DIYnamics rotating tables are great to give students hands-on experiences in small groups and to see — by running […]

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Photo comics for scicomm from the central Greenland ice sheet? Yes, please!

mglessmer — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:17:22 +0000

Do you remember how I started experimenting with an app that made sketches from photos to see if reading waves might be easier from sketches than from photos? (Btw, approximately half of the answers on whether or not sketches are easier to read than pictures were along the lines of “YES!!!! DEFINITELY!!!” and the other […]

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