Coriolis force – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Supporting conceptual understanding of the Coriolis force through laboratory experiments

mglessmer — Fri, 03 May 2019 19:02:32 +0000

My friend Pierré and I started working on this article when both of us were still working at the Geophysical Institute in Bergen. It took forever to get published, mainly because both of us had moved on to different jobs with other foci, so maybe it’s not a big deal that it took me over […]

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Experiment: Demystifying the Coriolis force

mglessmer — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 05:07:01 +0000

Mirjam S. Glessmer & Pierré D. de Wet Abstract Even though experiments – whether demonstrated to, or personally performed by students – have been part of training in STEM for a long time, their effectiveness as an educational tool are sometimes questioned. For, despite students’ ability to produce correct answers to standard questions regarding these […]

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Why do we go to all the hassle of rotating our swimming pool?

mglessmer — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:44:18 +0000

This blog post was written for Elin Darelius & team’s blog (link) which you should totally follow if you aren’t already! — We have started rotating and filling water into our 13-meter-diameter rotating tank! So exciting! Pictures of that to come very soon. But first things first: Why do we go to the trouble of […]

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“Coriolis fountain”

mglessmer — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:56:30 +0000

We’ve been thinking about Coriolis deflection a lot recently (see links at the end of this post). But this weekend, at Phaenomenta Flensburg, I came across a so-called “Coriolis fountain”. A fountain that you can put into spin and that then changes shape like so: Uta, remember we talked about this a couple of years […]

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