Falckenstein – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

#WaveWatchingWednesday

mglessmer — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:05:12 +0000

Even though I haven’t done a #WaveWatchingWednesday in a looong time, there has of course been a lot of wave watching going on. But the longer I wait with copying all the Instagram posts into a blog post, the more work it gets, the longer I put it off. Vicious circle! But here we go […]

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Wave watching in preparation of a guided tour! (Day 2)

mglessmer — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 11:38:42 +0000

Woke up at 4:11 this morning and was AWAKE. So the obvious thing to do is catch the sunrise from the bridge across Kiel canal! And I was lucky that there was quite a lot going on in the locks already, too! Look at this beautiful wake! Early morning wave watching is really the best […]

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Wave watching in preparation of a guided tour! (Day 1)

mglessmer — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 09:22:36 +0000

Had a really early start yesterday (today again, but those pics will come in a separate post :-)) because I wanted to cycle to the beach to prepare a guided wave watching tour that I’ll be running for Ocean Summit later this year. Quick detour on the way — I never realized what a cool spot […]

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More wave watching, this time in Kiel

mglessmer — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:21:32 +0000

Beautiful morning arriving back in Kiel… Looking downwind, the weather might seem pleasant (especially when focussing on the sunrise). But looking upwind however, the wind rows on the water as well as the white caps on the waves indicate that it’s quite windy! Very cool: the turbulent wake of a ship interrupts the wave field […]

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