Using coffee in a talk on kitchen oceanography
I have been a bit quiet on here recently, because I had so many exciting projects going on that I did not manage to document them in real time (well,…
Tag: hands-on
Guest post: Estimating salinity as a homework assignment
Today I am super excited to share a guest post that my awesome friend Joke Lübbecke wrote for us. Joke is a professor in physical oceanography in Kiel, and we…
An overturning experiment (part 3)
By popular demand: A step-by-step description of the overturning experiment discussed here and here. I wrote this description a while ago and can’t be bothered to transfer it into the…
An overturning experiment (part 2)
How to adapt the same experiment to different levels of prior knowledge. In this post, I presented an experiment that I have run in a primary school, with high-school pupils,…
An overturning experiment
A simple experiment that shows how the large-scale thermally-driven ocean circulation works. Someone recently asked me whether I had ideas for experiments for her course in ocean sciences for non-majors.…
Modeling the Denmark Strait Overflow
Ha, this is a bad pun. We are modeling the Denmark Strait Overflow – but in a non-numerical, small-scale-and-playdough kind of way. More than a year ago, Kjetil and I ran…
Traveling circus
Stuff that I brought to Isafjördur to teach the intro to oceanography. I’ve been a fan of minimalistic travel for a while. And apparently I was ready for a new…