Today we are doing the melting ice cubes experiment in fancy glasses, because Elin is giving a fancy lecture tonight: The Nansen Memorial Lecture of the Norwegian Science Academy in Oslo! Cheers! We each had green ice cubes in our glasses, but one of our glasses contained fresh water and the other one salt water, […]
Now that I have introduced the new tag “kitchen oceanography: food related” to my blog, it’s time to add a couple new posts to that category. And today I have a fun post for you! But first, what does “kitchen oceanography” even mean? Kitchen oceanography /ˈkɪtʃɪn ˌəʊʃəˈnɒɡrəfi/ noun Experiments on processes related to the ocean […]
What is the impact of this blog? And who am I writing it for? Those are not questions I regularly ask myself. The main reason I started blogging was to organise all the interesting stuff I was collecting for my introduction to oceanography lecture at the University of Bergen in one place, so I would […]
In my last post, I showed you the legendary overturning experiment. And guess what occurred to me? That there is an even easier way to show the same thing. No gel pads! (BUT! And that is a BIG BUT! Melting of ice cubes in lukewarm water is NOT the process that drives the “real” overturning! For […]
What is wrong with this picture? Don’t you guys make your parents stop the car when you drive by newly built walls in random villages somewhere when they are a perfect example of what the Paranuss-Effekt (Brazil nut effect, or granular convection, for all you non-german-speakers) does NOT look like? For comparison, this is what it […]
Another one of those days where I kinda wish I had taken at least some meteorology at some point (only “kind of” because I wouldn’t want to miss any of the stuff I actually took…). But on my way to work I saw the clouds below: The internet says they might be cirrocumulus undulatus clouds. In any […]
