#scipoem – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

A “Poetry for Sustainability” lunch

Mirjam — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:04:14 +0000

Today, we tried a new format of our “Transformation Thursdays” (come-as-you-are informal lunch meetings where colleagues who are interested in Teaching for Sustainability can join me and Terese to chat about Teaching for Sustainability. No preparation required, but you are welcome to bring questions and topics if you like!) — first of all, it was […]

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Recap of the first meeting of my new course “Teaching for Sustainability”

mglessmer — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:10:03 +0000

Yesterday was the first meeting of this spring’s installment of my “teaching for sustainability” course and it is so inspiring and energizing to meet so many motivated and engaged teachers! Here is what we did. We started out with “impromptu networking” (see figure below for instructions) so each participant got to speak to three others […]

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Seeing is believing — A #scipoem

mglessmer — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:12:08 +0000

Seeing is believing Climate change communication Needs a good vis’alization Political protesters and politicians should best be shunned to avoid defens’ve reaction’. Show behaviour in relation: not one car, but road congestion. action’ble steps that can confront Climate change… Use real people’s real emotion unfamiliar, thought-provoking. Not overwhelmed, but rather stunned, that’s how people best […]

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A #SciPoem about sitting on a rotating tank all day long

mglessmer — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:13:13 +0000

Are you following our updates from the 13-m-diameter pool on a merry-go-round? If not, you definitely should! Because it is super exciting, but also because this poem will make a lot more sense then… A Coriolis Rondel Turning and turning and turning All day on a merry-go-round Spinning, free from the solid ground Isn’t that […]

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“A brief history of climate in the Nordic Seas” — A #scipoem

mglessmer — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:59:49 +0000

A brief history of climate in the Nordic Seas* Understanding of climate change explaining a record’s full range playing the cause-and-effect game needs a closed, mechanistic frame data: proxies or direct obs predicted future poses probs relationship is not the same: needs a closed, mechanistic frame mechanism seems to differ Gulf Stream currently seems stiffer […]

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Greenhouse Gases — A #SciPoem

mglessmer — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:56:00 +0000

Greenhouse Gases Air around us: full of water Vapour, clouds or rain Warmer air holds more. A feedback. CO2 belongs in the air Volcanoes or Breathing cattle Not burnt fossils Natural sources for methane Ampl’fied by us: Farting cattle Agriculture Soil cultivation produces nitrous oxide Fertilizers Burnt biomass Chlorofluorocarbons are synthetic stuff industrial reg’lated now […]

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“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal”: A #SciPoem

mglessmer — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:51:30 +0000

“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal” This quote’s source: the IPCC On what in total ninety-sev’n Percent of scientists agree The evidence of climate change Risen by more than one degree The av’rage surface temperature Since anno nineteenhundr’d. See? The evidence of climate change The oceans have absorbed some heat And […]

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Response of the ACC to climate change #scipoem

mglessmer — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:53:59 +0000

The response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to recent climate change* Around and around the southern pole The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, inspiring Around and around the southern pole Seemingly without a goal Going east, east, east, untiring East, east, east, admiring! Around and around the southern pole Around and around the southern pole To “the […]

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#scipoem on an Darelius et al. article about ice shelves

mglessmer — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:09:19 +0000

“Observed vulnerability of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to wind-driven inflow of warm deep water”* Let’s talk ab’t a favourite paper “Observed vulnerability of Filchner- Ronne Ice Shelf to wind-driven inflow of wa(-a-a-a-a)rm deep water” An ice shelf is ice that is floating on top of the sea as it’s flowing down from a continent this one […]

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Tale of arctic melting and deep water formation #scipoem

mglessmer — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:52:07 +0000

Tale of arctic melting and deep water formation Freshwater freezes long before saltwater does, and it also floats on top of saltwater. In the Nordic Seas, deep waters are formed. If there is a lot of freshwater, less deep water can be formed. The sea freezes over. Ice then insulates, prevents heat flux, shutting down […]

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