GEO-Tag der Natur – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Wave watching on Brodowinsee

mglessmer — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:43:18 +0000

What do you do the night before the most important three days of your whole work year? Yep — some wave watching with friends! On Thursday night, we went to cool down and relax after preparing for GEO-Tag der Natur all day long. Don’t these images make you feel much more calm instantly? And look at […]

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Algae as tracers for currents in Parsteiner See

mglessmer — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 04:05:55 +0000

Remember how I described a breeze creating a wave field on Parchsteiner See? Well, it did not only cause a wave field, it also set up a circulation! Which I might not have noticed, had nit not also started deforming the algae patches! At first, it looked like above, and we could walk into the […]

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GEO-Tag der Natur making waves on Parsteiner See.

mglessmer — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:05:13 +0000

Remember I did this for work? We ended up with pretty cool pictures, like this one: And as I was standing in the water, guess what I was doing? Taking pictures of the ring waves propagating away from my feet! :D And I find it so amazing how you can start a wave train moving […]

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Wave watching in an end moraine lake in Brodowin

mglessmer — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 04:05:11 +0000

On our work trip to Brodowin to prepare the GEO-Tag der Natur (which will take place here only a little more than a week from now! Crazy!), I had the chance to do some cool wave watching on different lakes. Above, for example, you see wind waves coming in from the right, and their very […]

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Observing a breeze making waves on Parsteiner See

mglessmer — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 18:29:18 +0000

Yesterday, I happened to be at Parsteiner See for work. At first, the sea was completely calm and the only waves were the ones we made doing our photo shoots, like so: Other than that, the lake was completely calm. But then suddenly, I spotted a breeze going over the lake. It becomes visible in […]

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