Science

Like a Moss

They're pretty much everywhere. In the harshest environments, even on highways some extremophile mosses, lichens and algae can survive. Most… Read More

2013-09-11

In Rough Seas

Heligoland is an island off the coast of Nothern Germany. This island has already had a turbulent history before man… Read More

2013-09-07

Phantastic Physics!

Guns and physics mix pretty well. While I don't want to advocate gun use! Nevertheless, they're still a marvelous example… Read More

2013-09-03

Recording a seismic wave – What’s new?

Streamers are an essential part in the marine seismic experiment. When I first came into geophysics, I learned that streamers… Read More

2013-08-28

How punch cards helped me get to know my data – EBCDIC

Today I learned something interesting. Old habits die hard and seismics is a pretty old business. There are a couple… Read More

2013-08-21

Know your scale – Why wavelengths are so important

So you thought there is just one "seismics"? In general, we might say that the seismics experiment is watching mechanical… Read More

2013-08-19

Seismics Introduction

We send sound into the ground and listen what comes back to the surface. There are a lot of sources… Read More

2013-02-16

Beasties of fur and of feather

Our world long ago with lands joined together when first appeared beasties of fur and of feather. Artistic view on… Read More

2013-01-22

Dangerous cargo and magnetic prospection

This week a boat in Hamburg was carrying dangerous cargo. It was an unexploded grenade that had been found on… Read More

2013-01-20

Happy New Year! – On gravitational attraction

A new year starts and suddenly a lot of people are concerned about their gravitational attraction to the Earth. In… Read More

2013-01-03