Kiel canal – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

April weather in September (Great for #WaveWatching and cloud watching!)

mglessmer — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 05:05:30 +0000

Minutes after drawing the illustration to the “you are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop” quote I shared yesterday in the most beautiful sunshine, the sky started looking like this. Luckily I had a nice spot from which I could observe what happened next… …lots of drops. In […]

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Spontaneous adventures are the best! Today involving a trip on a historic ship, some sight seeing on Kiel fjord and a bit of Lindy Hop

mglessmer — Sun, 26 May 2019 12:38:22 +0000

I’m lucky to have great friends like Alice, who was spontaneous enough to go on a mini cruise with me today (for which I was only given tickets when I was already on my way to meet her somewhere else). So we boarded the historic MS Stadt Kiel and the adventure began! (Note the Europe […]

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Windy days at Holtenau locks: Now THAT’s a turbulent wake!

mglessmer — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:04:44 +0000

Now that the weather is nice and sunny again, here is what it looked like only last Saturday. It wasn’t even really stormy, but windy enough so that the ships leaving the locks at Kiel Holtenau were working a lot harder than usual. Especially difficult when you are almost empty and then there is a […]

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Wave watching at Kiel Holtenau locks

mglessmer — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:05:35 +0000

On Sunday, I set out to see a large cruise liner go through the locks at Kiel Holtenau. What happened, though, was that a ship with a smiley painted on its deck came first. Do you see the two shadows to the right of the ship, the left one aligning with the one side of […]

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Interesting pilot ship #wavewatching at Kiel canal

mglessmer — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:05:23 +0000

Some throwback Friday evening wave watching (at the locks at Kiel Holtenau with my friend Sara for a nice and relaxing end of the week) to start the new week. The best! First: The pilot boat going towards the locks. Unusually visible wake — they are going fast today! Plus an interesting sheltering of waves: […]

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Wave watching from a train

mglessmer — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 05:09:25 +0000

You know how they say that the journey is the destination? That was certainly the case for my spontaneous mini-vacation yesterday (and how awesome is it that my #BestTravelBuddy is up for a cross country trip on a day’s notice?). We went all the way from the east coast to the west coast — which […]

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Wave watching at the locks in Kiel Holtenau

mglessmer — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:20:42 +0000

Yes, we are back to wake watching! Today I went to a new-to-me wave watching spot: The bridge across Kiel canal close to the Holtenau locks, which you see in the background of the picture below. And I should have checked out my favourite ship tracking app for better timing, I had to wait for […]

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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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Wave watching on Kiel Canal: Bulbous bows and how they shape the wave field

mglessmer — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 09:35:56 +0000

Even when I fully intend to just go for a Saturday afternoon walk to catch up with a friend, this is what happens… I get distracted by waves. Like the crisscrossing pattern of waves and their reflections that you see below. Or the amazing bow waves of ships passing by. Isn’t it fascinating what a […]

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Wave watching at the Kiel Holtenau locks

mglessmer — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 04:27:40 +0000

So many people are surprised when I speak of wave watching as of a “real activity”. But to me it is! So I am going to talk you through a couple of minutes I spent looking out on the water where the Kiel Canal meets the Kiel fjord, right outside the locks at Kiel Holtenau. […]

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