DIYnamics – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Throwback to the pandemic and teaching from home: “An ocean in a bucket”

mglessmer — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:54:49 +0000

I had completely forgotten about a video that Kjersti and I produced in 2021 to prepare her students for rotating tank experiments by addressing a common misconception before they ever set foot in a lab. But since it is so hilarious and also such a throwback to how all our meetings looked for months and […]

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#KitchenOceanography

mglessmer — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:52:46 +0000

/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 In more detail: 1. Experimenting with ocean physics using only household items #KitchenOceanography is an extremely useful type of experiments on oceanographic processes: those that […]

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

mglessmer — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 05:32:57 +0000

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 act as guides to “younger” students when they do experiments for the first time, thus lowering the threshold of engaging with equipment, acting as role […]

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

mglessmer — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:12:05 +0000

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 and a presentation at the MNT conference in Stavanger tomorrow! For those of us who can’t be there, here is what she will talk about. […]

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

mglessmer — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:47:56 +0000

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 die Umsetzung im letzten Jahr mit den Zoom-Konferenzen aus meiner Küche, erschienen, zusammen mit vielen anderen spannenden virtuellen und hybriden Formaten. Es lohnt sich, da […]

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Alles andere als trockene Theorie (Repost)

mglessmer — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:29:29 +0000

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 begreifbar macht Über eine Lehrinnovation, die auf Kleingruppenarbeit und „hands-on“-Praxiselemente setzte – und was in Zeiten von Covid-19 daraus wurde. In der Lehrveranstaltung „Atmosphären- und […]

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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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Tilting frontal surface under rotation / cylinder collapse

mglessmer — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:55:52 +0000

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 been practicing it today. It didn’t work out quite as well as it did when Pierre and I were running it in Bergen years ago, […]

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Rotating vs non-rotating turbulence

mglessmer — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:05:27 +0000

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 the DIYnamics rotating table setup at home, so this is what it looked like: We did two experiments, the very boring (but very important) solid […]

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

mglessmer — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 12:05:08 +0000

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 of the tank the equator. And there is one experiment that — I fear — might reinforce that misconception, and that is the one we […]

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