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Around the world with professor Vening Meinesz onboard the submarine K-XVIII
Root, Bart; Hanssen, Ramon; Vermeersen, Bert; Munnik, Michiel; Vlijm, Rozemarijn
Publication date 2015
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Root, B., Hanssen, R., Vermeersen, B., Munnik, M., & Vlijm, R. (2015). Around the world with professor Vening Meinesz onboard the submarine K-XVIII. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2015, Viena, Austria.
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Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-5449-2, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015
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Around the world with professor Vening Meinesz onboard the submarine
K-XVIII
Bart Root (1), Ramon Hanssen (2), Bert Vermeersen (1,2,4), Michiel Munnik (3), and Rozemarijn Vlijm (5)
(1) Delft University of Technology, Aerospace Engineering faculty, Astrodynamics and Space Missions, Delft, Netherlands, (2) Delft University of Technology, Civil Engineering faculty, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft, Netherlands, (4) NIOZ, Texel, Netherlands, (3) Delft University of Technology, TUDelft Library, Delft, Netherlands, (5) University of Leiden, Department of History, Leiden, Netherlands
In November 1934, Den Helder, The Netherlands, the start of a remarkable voyage commenced. The Hr. Ms. K-XVIII, a Dutch submarine, was about to set sail to Soerabaya, Indonesia. Onboard was a Dutch professor, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz. He was able to measure the Earth’s gravity field with similar precision as on land for the first time in history using his innovative pendulum apparatus. His ground breaking data and systematic way of working changed the way of performing scientific expeditions.
With the Library of the TUDelft and “Stichting Academisch Erfgoed” (Academic Heritage Foundation), we revisit this particular expedition and use it as a stepping stone to web-based geodetic and geophysical education for students and the public. The K-XVIII sailed over spreading ridges, transform faults, hotspot volcanos, subduction zones and many more interesting geological structures, which are discussed in this application. The importance of geodetic research is heavily present along the complete voyage in the form of global geoid determination. Moreover, the precision of the observations onboard the K-XVIII are compared with current satellite gravimetry and prove to be remarkable accurate. The goal of the project is to make the several datasets of Vening Meinesz, his measurements, articles, media, old foto’s and other objects of the K-XVIII voyage, accessible for the public.
The user can follow the famous voyage from Den Helder to Soerabaya in an interactive web application, stopping at interesting geophysical or historical places in space and time. The user can learn about plate tectonics and its historical findings, study the equipment that Vening Meinesz used to observe the gravity field with extreme precision, and learn about the important collaboration between science and the Navy. Dive into the adventure of the geo-scientific research of professor Vening Meinesz.
