Strande – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

#WaveWatching in Strande (supported by a seagull!)

mglessmer — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 05:20:10 +0000

Even though I’ve been looking at waves for years now, wave watching is still full of surprises. Yesterday I showed you capillary waves that a jellyfish made, and today I’m showing you a helpful seagull. What I found most fascinating walking through this marina were the long straight wave crests that form in parallel to […]

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Same beach, different waves. Why?

mglessmer — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 06:15:33 +0000

Here is a puzzle for you. Walking along a beach, first, the waves looked like this: One wave breaking at a time. That’s the situation you also see in the foreground of the picture below, while in the background, a little further down the beach, something else starts happening. If we look closely at that […]

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