As I mentioned yesterday, I recently contributed to a teacher training on Lotseninsel, a tiny island on the Baltic Sea coast. The training was run by the Ozean:Labor of the Kieler Forschungswerkstatt, and we spent Friday to Sunday there. I’m going to show you some impressions of that weekend here.
At first, it did not look promising:
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We had to pack A LOT of equipment on a small boat in pouring rain to bring everything over to the island.
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After unpacking all that stuff, we went to test some instrumentation in the pouring rain. This is our cute ROV:
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In the evening, when all the teachers had arrived, we started with the workshops and continued until late in the night. Below you see two groups of teachers working on 3×3 m stretches of the beach, collecting plastic to map the pollution of the beach.
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The next day, the group was split up in two parallel groups. One doing stuff like this:
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The other group, in which I was involved, doing stuff like this:
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Obviously we had to do the melting ice cube experiment in a workshop on ocean physics!
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But Johanna and Dennis did tons of other cool stuff, too, like for example this demonstration of salt inflow events into the Baltic Sea:
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And again, the second time that same workshop was run in the afternoon for the second group of teachers. Amazing how quickly the weather changed!
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But of course our group also did some field work: Water sampling and then analysing nutrients, salinity, oxygen concentration…
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The next day, I got to see my first fish dissection. I know why I studied physics…
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I am not showing you the gory pics here because that’s not what we do on this blog ;-)
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Also really cool: Those are baleens, those filters that whales use! Never touched them before.
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But we also got some time to enjoy the weather and play with our equipment: Those are Jeannine, Dennis and Johanna, who I had the pleasure to work with. It was great fun!
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Even though the amazing weather only lasted for a short while, this is them arriving back on the main land with the last of three tours to shuttle everything back…
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But I had a great weekend! And if you haven’t yet, go back and look at the lighthouse on Lotseninsel. I could spend years there, taking pictures from different angles and in different weathers… So pretty :-)