I made my first fabric book yesterday. This is a direction in book arts that I've been wanting to venture in for a while. Like most new things that I undertake, I've felt rather overwhelmed by the possibilities here. But I knew I just needed to begin, with some idea/any idea, and then let it evolve from there.
This is truly a scrap book -- filled with scraps of paper and cloth, and constructed san souci. The pages were stitched individually then put back to back with Timtex between. The cover is merely two layers of fabric lightly fused before stitching. Finished size is 5 x 7 inches.
There are innumerable ways to bind fabric books. I simply stitched pages and cover together at the left edge.
It always works well for me to make a prototype of sorts when I'm trying something new...even if subsequent creations have little or no relationship to the first piece. It's merely a starting point.
My next Fiberactions challenge piece, with the theme of neutrals, will be a fabric book. And I have my idea in mind and fabrics selected. I know that before I tackle that project, though, there'll be more experimenting with different options in fabric books.
Here's another triple chain-stitched book covered with upholstery fabric, completed yesterday. The innards are collages, scrapbook paper and recycled magazine pages.
A word about recycled magazine pages ~ I've been finding an unusual assortment of magazines and magazine-style books at one particular thrift store recently. So you might want to keep your eye on the magazine racks of your local thrift stores if you've a mind to recycle pages into handmade books. Get the ones that have heavy paper.
All great to use, all heavyweight paper which can be collaged or painted on, many pages with a lot of white space.
Last week an interior decorator friend donated no-longer-needed upholstery fabric samples to me to use for whatever. I already had books in mind and wasted no time.
I filled this book with orange-red patterned scrapbook cardstock and old collages to match, along with some pages from a European art magazine with art that also fit the color theme. The visible folds of the signatures were covered with strips of another collage. I love this sewn tapes binding.
What delightful weather we're having on the North Coast. Yesterday I treated myself to breakfast at the Loleta Bakery, one of Humboldt's few European-style bistros, and very close by in the tiny town of Loleta overlooking dairy ranches (some organic) on the flood plain of the Eel River. I really do live in paradise. I love living in a rural area.
Happy Autumn! This is my favorite season of the year. And I plan to record whatever I can of it in my ready-to-fill Autumn Journal. I sewed in the signatures yesterday and also added stuff to the inside covers. I might embellish the inside cover flap later on.
The photo of me is from 15 years ago. Deep sigh ~ I wish I still looked this good...but, oh well. In my mind's eye I still look like this, and I'm even letting my hair grow out now although it's unlikely it'll ever be that long again.
You might be wondering why I've spent days and days making pages for my shabby journal (ala Remains of the Day). Each page is rather a work of art in itself, created before the signatures are even stitched into the journal. And after binding in, these pages will serve as templates or backdrops for recording details of daily (or almost-) life...including photos, snippets of goings on, street papers found, etc.
I'm planning to have two signatures of eight folios each in this journal. But like most other fun things, once you start making pages like this, it's really hard to stop. I have enough finished pages to bind into three journals!
Mary Ann makes journals like this prior to her semi-annual trips abroad, and largely fills them up as she travels, day by day. Great concept, isn't it? ~ instead of having to start from scratch with a blank book when you get home.
But I don't travel, so my intention with the first of these journals is that it become my Autumn 2012 Journal. It'll be ready to roll this weekend, when fall officially begins.
Don't miss Remains of the Day. It's one heck of a fantastic class, brimming with creativity that will keep you busy for a very long time.
This is the shabby journal cover I made in Mary Ann's Remains of the Day class. Journal is closed in photo at left, and open, below.
I deviated from her instructions a bit, by using Peltex inside the slipcover instead of heavy paper. You could also use Timtex or Fast2Fuse, any of the heavy heavy weight interfacings, and it doesn't matter if they're fusible or not.
The outside cover is a piece of discharged cotton with scraps and small pieces of other discharged fabrics free-motion quilted on after I put the interfacing inside. The inside cover is white fabric with tiny black circles -- you can see a tiny bit of it at the bottom of both photos.
Today I'm starting to make pages for the journal.
Re: the concept of shabby, it's hard for me to get really shabby...or it's something I need to work on. Even my "shabby" pieces look quite-well made. But that's okay ~ I love this journal cover.
A lot of my handmade fabric is relocating from quilting fabric piles into a new book arts fabric pile, especially the small bits and pieces that I never managed to fit into a quilt -- like the pieces in the journal cover.
Variations on a Scheme 1 ~ 19 x 12.5"
This is reveal day for Fiberactions latest challenge ~ color triad. The colors I chose are red orange, yellow green and blue violet. All of these pieces are machine pieced and hand quilted.
Variations on a Scheme 4 ~ 22.5 x 12"
The slice & dice process was so enjoyable and fun, that once I'd designed one piece I literally couldn't stop. Partly, too, it's because when you start out with a piece of stitched fabric strips and keep adding and cutting, you're left with a bunch of new ideas and possibilities. And you just keep going.
Variations on a Scheme 2 ~ 19 x 12.5"
I'm probably ready to put this technique aside for a while...but we'll see what happens with our next challenge.
Variations on a Scheme 3 ~ 19 x 12.5"
A few notes about the books I've been making ~ many of you have inquired about Mary Ann Moss's online class that I completed recently, Full Tilt Boogie. Although I've responded to each of you, here's the link again, for those of you who are interested but haven't let me know. I very highly recommend Mary Ann's class.
There is a ton of more formal bookmaking material available through books (I recommend Alisa Golden's Handmade Books) as well as online via tutorials and classes. I'm also learning a lot through NorBAG (North Redwoods Book Arts Guild) workshops from the numerous local book artists in Humboldt County.
What I especially love about Mary Ann and her classes is that she's an "anything goes" kind of gal -- my kind of artist. There are no rules in bookmaking, no exact recipes to follow, no one says a book needs to be like this or like that, bound like so, filled with specific papers, etc. Mary Ann's class gave me complete creative license to do whatever I want. If the result has pages of some sort attached or bound in some way and covered with something, then it's a book.
If you're at all intrigued, definitely take Full Tilt Boogie.
This week I started on Mary Ann's earlier class called Remains of the Day. I'm in the process of making a shabby journal of paper and fabric (I'm using Peltex inside my fabric cover instead of paper), and later will fill it with recycled paper/envelope pages, and then be using it as a visual journal. All in THIS class.
And if I haven't said enough good things about Mary Ann and her online classes yet, there's also the fact that once you take her class, you have lifetime access to the videos and PDFs. You can go back to them at any time -- they do not expire. How cool is that?!
A new Coptic stitch book, made yesterday. This time I even got the stitch right! This little book is 4" tall by 5" wide, board covers are wrapped in a collage, and the pages are all cardstock.
I have a stretch stretch goal of making a book a day ~ but I'd be happy with a couple a week. It's such an enjoyable process, and I love that the end product is functional. This might be the first time in my vagabondish art career that I've actually made something that has a use!
For several decades I've noticed that my night dreams often fall into categories. There's the Work Dream group, which I had scads of, especially in the year or two after I left a particular job (and including my very last job, which ended in July 2011). And the Show Dreams, which were always related to my having been a vendor for a number of years at art/craft shows (often those dreams were about not being set up in time for the opening, a new version of those age-old dreams we all had about not being prepared for an exam at school). And Conference Dreams, which were where work and show dreams came together.
And then there were/are the Art Retreat dreams, two of which I've had in the last few nights. I love those, and I only wish I could remember the awesome art made therein by myself and others. Last night's was about BIG art ~ someone was working in a hardbound visual journal that must've been 18x24" in portrait format. Somebody else was doing something to glass that gave it a smoky color. Someone else was using a torch of some kind. I remember thinking, "Wow, this is all much bigger and more involved than I can do at home."
Much as I'd love to work on that scale, those days have passed and I'm happy to be working on a small, manageable scale with my work.
I've been busy...and obsessed with completing my four Fiberactions quilts, which I did on Friday. Look for the reveal this coming Saturday, September 15. Who knows why I couldn't stop at one...or two. Actually, I enjoyed the design process so much (slice 'n dice) that I couldn't stop at just one...or two.
Yesterday I schlepped all over Ferndale at the community yard sale, and only came home with some good old books to upcycle/alter, etc. Left me totally exhausted.
I'm having a Trunk Show & Sale on Saturday, October 6 at Eureka Fabrics, in downtown Eureka. Since I'm not selling my work online any longer (for all intents and purposes), I thought it would be a good idea to have everything available for sale in one public place locally. Rather like a traveling Open Studio. October 6 is also Arts Alive in Eureka, and I plan to be open for business from 1 p.m. til 9 p.m. when Arts Alive ends.
If you're in Humboldt and would like to receive an email invitation to the sale -- and you think you might not already be on my email list -- then please email me so I can add you to the list.
I started working in one of my handmade journals, albeit slowly. I'm thinking of calling these "Design Journals" instead of art- or visual journals. And this week -- possibly even today -- I'll be starting Mary Ann Moss's Remains of the Day online class. Really looking forward to this.
The weather has changed...it's definitely fall. We sure didn't have much of a summer here on the North Coast this year. Now the mornings and evenings are cooler than they've been and I've begun turning the heat on in the morning for a bit. We could still get a blast of Indian Summer, but who knows.
Have a lovely Sunday or Monday, wherever you are.


Yesterday I wrote about what to do if you have "cranky" people in your ministry. Today I want to think for a minute about what to do with the "cranky" people. If we just "push" them out of serving, we are practically guaranteed to hurt them - perhaps in ways which will take them years to overcome; if ever. While we have to have ministries where children are not afraid of the volunteers, we also can not cause damage to those who volunteer.
This can be quite a quandary and must be handled first of all with a great amount of prayer. Consider the following ways you could help the person so they are not damaged . . .
Of course pray. You can not pray too much about this.
Ask them if there is something happening in their lives which you can pray about for and with them; something you might be able to help them with.
Ask them if you could help them find a place to serve which will bring them joy. Let them know you want them to serve, they are part of the body in your church and are loved, so you would love to help them find a place to serve which didn't bring them stress, but instead brought them joy.
Realize the person may be hurt and embarrassed if you talk with them about leaving the children's ministry. Be sensitive. Make this a matter of on-going prayer. Stay in touch with them. Focus on how you can help them serve with joy. And, once again, pray, pray, pray.


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Ranking the 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival, Part 2
by David Conrad · March 13, 2019
In Part 1 of our SXSW Film coverage, the Netflix anthology series Love, Death & Robots took an early lead followed closely by the New Zealand eco-feminist anthology Vai. There are no anthologies in Part 2, so let's see how these discrete movies fare using Flickchart-style ranking, one matchup at a time.
Jesse Eisenberg's most familiar on-screen persona, a nerdy and emotionally-stunted man in search of the secret to unlocking the mysteries of human behavior, is open to allegations of mining conditions like Asperger's for their comedic potential. The Art of Self-Defense can respond to that criticism by pointing out that its whole world operates by Jesse Eisenberg rules. Everyone in the film is like him, monotone and earnest and often befuddled, even the ones who've succeeded in learning to game life's system and now use that knowledge to manipulate others. The premise — a lonely 35-year old gets mugged and then takes up karate at a dojo full of similar misfits — is the basis of an increasingly tense and graphic plot that satirizes alpha-male and martial arts culture with a sense of humor that is always dark, sometimes surprising, and frequently laugh-out-loud. The quirkiness of the characters is one-note, but creative dialogue and strong casting make it fun to root for and against them nonetheless, often at the same time.
The Art of Self-Defense beats Them That Follow
The Art of Self-Defense beats The Beach Bum
The Art of Self-Defense loses to Little Monsters
1. Love, Death & Robots
2. Vai
3. Little Monsters
4. The Art of Self-Defense
5. The Beach Bum
6. Them That Follow
The tale of Bonnie and Clyde is so shrouded in quaint romance and nostalgia, and the shadow cast by the anti-establishment 1967 film version is so long, that it's easy to forget the gritty historical facts of the couple's murderous crime spree. Texas film director John Lee Hancock spent 15 years bringing his version of the story — which focuses on the lawmen who tracked and killed the young outlaws — to life, and it finally comes to us courtesy of Netflix. The Highwaymen looks and feels like a throwback to the prestige dramas of the 1990s, partly because its stars include Kevin Costner and Kathy Bates who both tallied major awards and nominations during that decade. They've both worked consistently since then, but Hancock gives them roles worthy of their stature in Frank Hamer ("the most famous Texas Ranger in history," says Hancock) and Texas governor Ma Ferguson (famous for being the first female governor in the South and for corruption). Texas-born Woody Harrelson brings his demon-haunted, hangdog persona to the character of Maney Gault, Hamer's partner in crime, for these lawmen are criminals in their own way; they exceed their jurisdiction by crossing state lines to pursue Bonnie and Clyde, and they exhibit a take-no-prisoners mentality that Hancock interrogates even as he argues that they did what needed to be done. Bonnie and Clyde themselves are seldom seen except from a distance, always one step ahead of their fate until their multi-state network of abettors finally weakens and falls apart. The Highwaymen is an entertaining, thought-provoking, old-school crime procedural and road movie with precisely-timed character beats and a fresh angle on a well-known yet little-understood Texas story.
The Highwaymen beats Them That Follow
The Highwaymen beats The Beach Bum
The Highwaymen beats The Art of Self-Defense
The Highwaymen beats Little Monsters
The Highwaymen beats Vai
The Highwaymen loses to Love, Death & Robots
2. The Highwaymen
One Man Dies a Million Times
Just outside the city of St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly Leningrad), there is a seed bank that collects specimens of the world's edible plants. The scientists there preserve not just seeds, but also whole plants ready to eat. When it started in 1926 the goal was to preserve our crops' genetic strains in the event of a widespread ecosystem collapse. That collapse, some say, is currently ongoing, underscoring the seed bank's importance. But the institute almost failed in the early 1940s when Nazi troops surrounded Leningrad and the city's people began to starve to death. The scientists in charge of protecting the institute chose starvation, condemning in some cases themselves as well as their families and fellow citizens, in order to preserve the collection. The reason I'm providing this historical background is that One Man Dies a Million Times doesn't spell it out clearly enough, despite several explanatory title cards. It would have been better to show instead of tell, to dramatize the experience of the Leningrad scientists rather than confining their experiences to narration drawn from their diaries and letters. This movie attempts to make the history feel more immediate by imagining a similar circumstance occurring in the near future among modern residents of the institute, but its aloof aesthetic and an absence of specific characterizations does no justice to the production's on-location access or the many tragedies of nearly 80 years ago. The film's primary achievement is to raise awareness, but it will struggle to connect with anyone not already in the know, and even with viewers who are.
One Man Dies a Million Times beats Them That Follow
One Man Dies a Million Times loses to The Beach Bum
7. One Man Dies a Million Times
Booksmart is about two well-read high school seniors who lack social intelligence, but the movie is the opposite of tone-deaf. It's wokeness about 2019's mores and attitudes is thorough and nuanced, while its sense of humor and self-deprecating impulses keep it from feeling pandering or woker-than-thou. Its up-to-the-minute references ("Persist," Cardi B) and commentary on current culture-war hotspots (all-gender school bathrooms) ensure that it will soon show its age, but its wisdom about the coming-of-age process in modern America will make it a touchstone among sharp-witted, post-millennial teen dramedies like Mean Girls, Easy A, and Eighth Grade. Stars Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein are enormously charismatic as a couple of ostensibly-uncharismatic curve-wreckers who are shocked to discover, on the eve of graduation, that their party-animal classmates all got into the same tier of top universities that they did. Not to be outdone in the social-smarts category, the two besties embark on an epic last-minute quest to find the coolest unsupervised house party in town and squeeze as much unwholesome fun as they can into their last night as high-schoolers. All of the graduates in the movie are unrealistically attractive, articulate, and likable, but that's linked to the film's point: the two protagonists must recognize that the kids they always looked down on are each the stars of their own stories, living their own best lives, and each have their own unique wisdom to impart. Debut director Olivia Wilde's handling of this message is consistently funny, never preachy, and challenges the booksmart among us to raise our game when it comes to open-mindedness.
Booksmart beats Them That Follow
Booksmart beats One Man Dies a Million Times
Booksmart beats The Beach Bum
Booksmart beats The Art of Self-Defense
Booksmart beats Little Monsters
Booksmart beats Vai
Booksmart beats The Highwaymen
Booksmart loses to Love, Death & Robots
2. Booksmart
Frances Ferguson
Audaciously, this story of a young female substitute teacher who goes to jail for an affair with a male high school student has Nick Offerman narrate that, for the teacher, it was "all in all a good year." Undoubtedly this observational comedy would have a harder time eliciting sympathy for its title character (played by a charmingly deadpan Kaley Wheless) if the genders were reversed. But that's a problem for the audience to wrestle with. On its own merits, the movie mostly succeeds in painting a picture of the woman through Offerman's wry narration and well-chosen vignettes that illustrate her relationships with the people in her life — mostly family members, inmates, and therapists. The picture is a familiar one, as far as it goes, reflecting small-town discontent and the slow incrementality of personal growth. The script also touches on larger questions many of us have had about cases like Frances's but may not have articulated. Yet director Bob Byington and screenwriter Scott King's handling of the story and character do not feel complete. There must be more to Frances' personality than boredom and loneliness, but those are the only facets they treat in detail, and they dare not stray from the narrow path that keeps the movie from drifting into uncomfortable and truly challenging territory.
Frances Ferguson beats Them That Follow
Frances Ferguson beats One Man Dies a Million Times
Frances Ferguson loses to The Beach Bum
8. Frances Ferguson
10. Them That Follow
Check back soon for more rankings from SXSW Film 2019!
Tags: BooksmartFrances FergusonOne Man Dies a Million TimesThe Art of Self-DefenseThe Highwaymen
David has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He loves foreign films, westerns, war flicks, and has read nearly every word J.R.R. Tolkien ever wrote. David lived in Japan for three years and is always eager to talk about it. Follow him on Twitter at @davidaconrad or email him at david@flickchart.com.
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Crenotermes olovens är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Bethune-Baker 1908. Crenotermes olovens ingår i släktet Crenotermes och familjen nattflyn. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Adam Kimble is a professional ultrarunner (named Tahoe's "Best Community Athlete" of 2019 by the Sierra Sun), motivational speaker and running coach from Tahoe City, CA. He is married to his high-school sweetheart, Karen, and they have a 5-year-old chocolate lab named Sofi. Adam played Division-I baseball at Bradley University prior to developing his passion for ultrarunning, and after graduation in the summer of 2009 ran his first ever race (5k) near his hometown in Minooka, IL. It resulted in very bad cramps and a lot of pain, but fortunately it also came with a second-place age group finish! Once the pain subsided, Adam decided his racing days weren't done and trained to complete his first half marathon in 2011. A half marathon led to the Chicago Marathon in 2012, and his first ultramarathon (50k) in 2014. With each and every race, the question became "what else is my body capable of?" Following two stage race wins and new course records (Gobi March 250k and Desert Ultra 250k), three podium finishes in 100-mile races, a 13th place finish at Western States, 10 race wins in 2018, a 60-day transcontinental crossing of the USA (2,500 miles), 60 days alone in the wilderness on Discovery Channel's The Wheel, and a 31-day self-supported crossing of Great Britain (1,050 miles), the limits are nowhere close to being reached.
The Wheel:
After responding to a casting email in the summer of 2016, Adam was named one of 30 finalists for Discovery Channel's new survival show, The Wheel. Only six contestants were chosen out of the 30 finalists, and Adam made the cut! In September of 2016, the six contestants were flown to remote areas of South America in an attempt to survive in six different eco-systems over the course of 60 days. In November of 2016, Adam completed all 60 days and officially conquered The Wheel, which you can learn about here.
Run Across America:
Driving down the coast of the Pan-American Highway in Chile during a 2015 RTW travel adventure with his wife, Adam decided that he wanted to run across the USA in hopes of setting a new Guinness World Record. In April of 2016, he completed his transcontinental run, which you can learn about here.
Great British Adventure:
In July of 2017, Adam and his friend Kris King set off on foot to run the length of Great Britain from John o' Groats in Northern Scotland to Lands End in southern England. The two became the first people to complete a self-supported run the length of Scotland, Wales and England, while summiting the highest peak (Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon) in each country along the way. Adam was fundraising in memory of his late friend, Mark Smith.
Tahoe Rim Trail:
In October of 2019, Adam set out to claim the FKT (Fastest Known Time) for the 172-mile Tahoe Rim Trail. He didn't break the record, but instead, claimed the second-fastest known time ever on the trail, finishing in 45 hours, 36 minutes!
Race Results and Career Highlights:
2019 Vermont 100: 18:48:22 (3rd overall)
2019 Mt. Shasta 50k: 3:51:59 (1st overall & CR)
2019 Red Dragon 55k: 4:24:53 (1st overall & CR)
2019 Escape From Prison Hill 10k: 48:32 (1st overall & CR)
2019 Carson Canyons 1/2 Half: 47:46 (1st overall & CR)
2018 Desert Ultra 250k (Beyond the Ultimate): 25:07:02 (1st overall & CR)
2018 Folsom Lake Ultra Trail 68.5 Miler: 10:59:03 (1st overall & CR)
2018 Cool Moon 11.5 Miler: 1:15:00 (1st overall & CR)
2018 Western States 100: 17:33:10 (13th overall)
2018 Squaw Valley Half Marathon: 1:17:11 (1st overall & PR)
2018 Way Too Cool 50k: 3:36:48 (10th overall & PR)
2018 Fourmidable 35k: 2:44:02 (1st overall & CR)
2017 Rio del Lago 100: 17:42:41 (2nd overall)
2016 Burning River 100: 19:14:00 (2nd overall)
2015 Gobi March 250k (4 Deserts): 25:39:33 (1st overall & CR)
Adam's Personal Bests:
Half Marathon: 1:17:11
100 Mile: 17:16:00
250K: 25:07:02
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Das Meteorologische Observatorium Lindenberg ist eine Einrichtung des Deutschen Wetterdienstes mit dem Themenschwerpunkt der Erforschung der Erdatmosphäre in Lindenberg (bei Beeskow). Sie besteht ununterbrochen seit etwa dem Jahr 1905.

Geschichte

Gründung
Das Königlich-Preußische Aeronautische Observatorium wurde zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts errichtet und in Betrieb genommen. Am 16. Oktober 1905 vollzog Kaiser Wilhelm II. in eigener Person die offizielle Einweihung. Das Observatorium war die Nachfolgeeinrichtung des Aeronautischen Observatoriums in Berlin-Reinickendorf, das von 1900 bis 1905 gearbeitet hatte und aus Sicherheitsgründen (Gefährdung des Verkehrs und der Hochspannungsleitungen) nach Lindenberg verlegt worden war. Beide Observatorien wurden von Richard Aßmann ins Leben gerufen. Er wählte Lindenberg, weil die Abwesenheit zivilisatorischer Einrichtungen in der Landschaft zwischen Storkow und Beeskow die damals mit Drachen durchgeführten Messungen in der Atmosphäre ermöglichten.

1905 bis 1932
Erster Direktor des Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg wurde Richard Aßmann: Unter seiner Leitung entstand 1907 das erste Netz aerologischer Stationen mit 5 Pilotierstellen in Deutschland. Bis 1910 entwickelte Otto Tetens am Observatorium den Pilotballon, der seitdem noch weltweit als Mittel zur Bestimmung des Höhenwindes benutzt wird.  Tetens nannte den Ballon .
1910 richteten die Observatoriumsbetreiber einen Warnungsdienst für Luftfahrer ein, der damit als erster Flugwetterdienst der Welt gilt. Im Jahr 1913 entstanden erste Sendestationen für die Übertragung der Wettermeldungen. Es wurden Geräte zur Messung der Ionisation, der Leitfähigkeit, Staubsammler, Kompensationspyrheliometer und ein Radioaktivitätsmessgerät konstruiert und erstmals in der freien Atmosphäre eingesetzt. Der Aufstiegsbetrieb von Drachen, Fesselballons und Registrierballons lief im Routinebetrieb.

Von 1914 bis 1932 leitete Hugo Hergesell als Direktor das Observatorium. In dieser Zeit entwickelte Max Robitzsch Strahlungsmessgeräte und Georg Stüve Feuchtemessgeräte, womit die  Radiowellenausbereitung untersucht werden konnte. Ab 1919 erstellten die Mitarbeiter eine tägliche Wetterprognose. Im Jahr 1926 fanden erstmals Ozonmessungen in der freien Atmosphäre statt. Zudem wurde eine meteorologische Sicherung des Luftverkehrs (Flugwetterberatung) durch stündliche Ausstrahlung über einen 5 kW-Sender direkt an die Piloten installiert. 1929 gab es erste Untersuchungen zur UKW-Ausbreitung. 1930 übermittelte die erste Radiosonde, entwickelt von Paul Duckert (1900–1966), drahtlos Messdaten zur Bodenstation. Auch Wetterflugzeuge – speziell ausgerüstet zum Sammeln meteorologischer Daten – kamen zum Einsatz. Im Jahr 1932 legte Hergesell das Direktorat nieder; das Observatorium verlor damit seine Selbstständigkeit und wurde eine Abteilung des Preußischen Meteorologischen Institutes (gegründet 1847) in Berlin.

In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Dabei gehörte das Observatorium ab 1935 zum Reichswetterdienst und damit zum Reichsluftfahrtministerium. Das Gebäude wurde 1936 rekonstruiert. Ab 1938 gab es die Eichzentrale aller in Deutschland gestarteten Radiosonden. Im selben Jahr entstand ein großer Fesselballon für die Luftabwehr im Auftrag des Heereswaffenamtes; es wurden Gewitterwolken untersucht und alle meteorologischen Meldungen aus den okkupierten Gebieten (5 Antennenmaste von 90 m Höhe wurden dazu errichtet) empfangen und gesendet.

Mai 1945 bis 1990
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nahm der Hydrometeorologische Dienst der UdSSR das Oberservatorium wieder in Betrieb, ab Januar 1946 stiegen routinemäßig Pilotballons auf. Bis 1946 wurde die Einrichtung unter der Bezeichnung Observatorium Lindenberg geführt, ab 1947 hieß das Observatorium Aerologisches Observatorium Lindenberg. 1947 entwickelten die neuen Mitarbeiter die Freiberg-Sonde und Radiotheodoliten. Im selben Jahr entstand die Zentrale des aerologischen Messdienstes auf dem Territorium der DDR.

Im Jahr 1950 kam die Radiosonden-Hauptstelle nach Berlin. An den alten Sendemasten arbeitete noch bis 1960 eine mikroaerologische Station, zudem wurden Ausbreitungsbedingungen elektromagnetischer Wellen untersucht. Ab 1960 baute Günter Mücket (* 1920) die Abteilung 'Sichtforschung' zur Entwicklung von Messgeräten zur Messung und Registrierung atmosphärischer Trübungsfaktoren auf. Zwischen 1952 und 1956 fanden verstärkt Fesselaufstiege unter Dubois statt, von 1960 bis 1962 kamen Driftballons zum Einsatz. Im Jahr 1955 entwickelte Josef Rink (1908–1974) die Lindenberger Mehrkanalsonde, die allerdings nicht in die Messpraxis überführt wurde. Von 1957 bis 1959 bauten die Meteorologen mit ihren Ingenieuren ein Höhenwind-Radar, das aber selten zum Einsatz kam. 1958 führte Martin Görsdorf (1912–1983) zum ersten Mal die 70 cm Wellenlänge in die Routine der Radiosondenaufstiegstechnik ein. Im selben Jahr wurden Radiotheodoliten für DDR-Aufstiegsstellen gebaut und die Radiosondenmesstechnik in Zusammenarbeit mit wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen der Sowjetunion weiterentwickelt.

Unter Peter Glöde konstruierten Ekkehard Asseng (1936–1993) und H. Dier Messfühler, Sender und Fallschirme für Raketensonden und programmierten die Software zur direkten Auswertung von Radiosondenaufstiegen. Damit konnte die Radiosondenmessung vollständig automatisiert werden. Bei der Entwicklung von Wettersatelliten-Empfangsanlagen entstand auch eine 17 cm große Empfangsanlage für die Potsdamer Zentrale Wetterdienststelle.
Hans Steinhagen richtete im Observatorium das erste Elektronik-Labor ein. Zuisammen mit seinen Mitarbeitern entstanden Korrekturalgorithmen für Satellitenaufnahmen der Erdoberfläche. Direktor Leiterer und seine Mitarbeiter führten die systematische Messung der optischen Dicke der Atmosphäre ein. Die Ingenieure Stolte und Schulz entwickelten Sender und Temperaturgeber der Dartsonde, die auf ballistischen Raketen zur Anwendung kam. Die Forschungsstation in Zingst für Raketenstarts wurde mit Hilfe der Fachleute aus Lindenberg aufgebaut. Der erste Start fand im Oktober 1989 statt. Auch ein SODAR-Netz wurde nach Erprobung aufgebaut.

Seit dem Mauerfall
Nach 1989 kamen neue Methoden der Vertikalsondierung der Atmosphäre und ihre Vorbereitung für den operativen Einsatz zur Anwendung. Die Zustands- und Prozessgrößen an der Erdoberfläche und innerhalb der atmosphärischen Grenzschicht sowie deren Interpretation und Bereitstellung für numerische Modellrechnungen und zur Validierung von Satellitendaten wurden erfasst und mit Computern ausgewertet. Die Überwachung der Atmosphäre erfolgte unter Einsatz aller Messeinrichtungen des Observatoriums noch lange Zeit. Dazu ging auch das Gemeinsame Messfeld in Falkenberg in Betrieb. Es werden Global- und Himmelsstrahlung in verschiedenen Wellenlängenbereichen und der Gesamt-Ozongehalt über Lindenberg gemessen und ausgewertet.

Seit der 100-Jahr-Feier vom 16. Oktober 2005 trägt die Anlage den Namen seines Begründers: Richard-Aßmann-Observatorium.

Direktoren

Außenstelle
Die Außenstelle des Richard-Aßmann-Observatoriums liegt in Tauche-Falkenberg. Sie dient zur Messung der Bodentemperatur, der Windrichtung, des Luftdrucks und zahlreicher anderer meteorologischer Parameter. Das Richard-Aßmann-Observatorium hat hierfür einen 99 und einen 10 Meter hohen Messmast, die beide in Form abgespannter Stahlfachwerkkonstruktionen ausgeführt wurden.

Weblinks

 Website des Observatoriums beim DWD
 Catharina Winzer: Entdeckungen in freier Atmosphäre. Wetterbeobachtung im Observatorium Lindenberg, Monumente Online 2.2011
 100 Jahre Atmosphärenforschung am Meteorologischen Observatorium Lindenberg (pdf), Promet, Hefte 2–4, 2005; abgerufen am 17. April 2021.

Einzelnachweise

Meteorologische Organisation (Deutschland)
Lindenberg
Gegründet 1905
Bauwerk in Tauche
Deutscher Wetterdienst
Organisation (Landkreis Oder-Spree)