Don't Panic Geocast

John and Shannon address a listener question from Mike and then talk about where to find intelligent life. MetPy Mondays #1 Carolina Bays Episode 18 - Titan Dunes Fun Paper Carolina Bays (Wikipedia) Radiocarbon dating Optically stimulated luminescence Palynology Younger Dryas Fun Paper Friday Thanks to listener Jonathan for this thought provoking fun paper on life in the universe and where to find...

This week Chris Taylor joins us to talk about making scientifically accurate gifts. We also learn how ants can modify the world around us. Rachio Chris Taylor Taylor Custom Chris’ Comic Book Ant Colony Casting Fun Paper Friday Thank you listener Martin! Dorn, Ronald I. “Ants as a powerful biotic agent of olivine and plagioclase dissolution.” Geology 42.9 (2014): 771–774. Contact us: Show - www.don...

John is on the mobile device spirit quest again, Shannon graduated a student, and we both took a break to talk about transform faults. We also learned that they are very complicated! Transform Boundaires John Tuzo-Wilson Reid’s elastic rebound theory Transform Faults (Good Wikipedia Illustrations) Fault Breccia Mylonite Pseudotachylite Fun Paper Friday Thanks to listener Mark, we’ll never sit at a...

John just got back from SciPy and updates us on the state of scientific Python. SciPy 2017 Ryan and John’s talk on units John’s poster Katy Huff’s Keynote Sean Gulick’s Keynote nbgrader - Jess Hamrick Dask Scikit Learn Numba Katy Huff Interview (Episode 65) Fun Paper Friday What’s the chance that you bump noses on your next kiss? Can stats help reduce that? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday...

SciPy Abstracts Convergent Plate Boundaries Metamorphic Rocks Episode 55 (Plate Tectonics) Episode 116 - Metamorphic Rocks Critical Taper Theory Fun Paper Friday Are Sea Pickles just Sea Cucumbers that are really old? Find out on this week’s Fun Paper Friday! NOAA Press Release Livescience (better pictures) Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicg...

Boaty McBoatface Article Divergent Boundary Rocks Basin and Range formation (YouTube) Divergent plate boundary Pillow basalt Gabbro Aulacogen East African Rift Fun Paper Friday Thanks to listener Mark for the paper suggestion and to Steve for the new cowbell! Ronen, Eyal, et al. “IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction.” IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2016 (2016): 1047. Embedded.fm #175...

This week it’s hot… so hot that some airplanes cannot takeoff. We talk about atmospheric density and density altitude, as well as look into some histograms of what’s in your bellybutton! Tropical Storm Cindy Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book One Density Altitude International Standard Atmosphere Height - Velocity Curves Density Altitude Crash Video Fun Paper Fr...

Shannon is back and we take some time to go over your feedback. Our email inbox was clogged all week, but should be running now, so get your sticker requests in! Embedded.fm 200th Episode FPF List John’s Timelapse Episode 12 - Tides Twain Harte Rock Exfoliating Fun Paper Friday Does jargon make you seem more or less professional? Found out in this week’s fun paper! Berman, Jessica R., et al. “Fell...

This week, we mix things up a bit. This joint show between Embedded.fm and the geocast explores what happens when electrical engineering meets geoscience in cold places. We’re joined by guest Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan of Penn State to talk about geopebbles, ice, climate, and more! Asimov Robot Series Anthropornis (giant penguins) Ice crystal structure Ice streams GeoPebble Propeller Programming (...

This week Shannon pops a surprise interview on John, asking all about open source. We talk about what it is, why people do it, and what it means for your cat videos. We round out the show talking about a physics problem that has stumped some of the greatest minds. EP 114 - “Chasrismatic Megafauna” (Flyover App) EP 177 - “Everything is a few weeks away” Open Drone Map Using Open Source Tools to Ref...

This week Dr. Uri ten Brink joins us to talk about his field experiences as an observational geophysicst and some thoughts about being a scientist. (Sorry, no fun paper this week - we were not able to record it before Shannon’s leave of absense!) Uri’s Homepage Walter Pitman Skua Cuddly Dudley South Pole Traverse Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dont...

Shannon just had a baby! We take the week off and celebrate with this classic episode of the geocast... Don't Panic, we'll be back next week! Having just got back from vacationing near a river, Shannon’s mind is wondering (and wandering!) about dams and their impacts, both good and bad. People use dams for electricity, recreation, flood control, and a myriad of other things. Let’s take a look at s...

  John is installing his weather station and Shannon is still pushing through finals week. On this week’s show we talk about a listener question regarding fulgurites. Can you petrify lightning and study it? Thanks to listener Steve for the show topic and fun paper suggestion! Fulgarites Fulgurite (Wikipedia) Lechatelierite Planar deformation features Lightning induced remanent magnetizations...

John’s Hackaday Prize Entry New Prince Rupert’s Drop Video We Martians - Esker Questions Episode 92 - Martian Esker Fun Paper Earth Structure Structure of the Earth Pitch Drop Experiment Summary Pitch Drop Webcams Inge Lehmann Episode 4 - we talk about plate tectonics on the core “The Core” Movie Clip Episode 56 – “A lot people would like to think they’ve got a lunar meteorite” Brad Jolliff Fun Pa...

Drones are everywhere, but did you know you can recreate 3D point clouds with images taken from your drone? Episode 73 – “A gigapan from 1906” Open Drone Map Web ODM Example Data Hackaday Web ODM Open SFM Mapillary Missing Maps Pixhawk Flight Controller Cannon S110 Cannon S120 Cannon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) Zanzibar Mapping Initiative Fun Paper Friday Can Batman fly like in Batman Begins? John...

Shannon takes one more field trip and John is ready to hit the road again, but we slow down to talk about metamorphic rocks - and probably get in trouble with the geochemists again. Fried Pies Metamorphic Rocks Metamorphic rock Pictures of metamorphic rocks Griggs apparatus Pole figures Example LPO paper Metamorphic facies Fun Paper Friday Listener Darryl send in this fun paper with a glowing revi...

John is off teaching a workshop and Shannon is working towards the end of the semester. We take a little time off to talk about academic service - what is it and why do we do it? Being an academic isn’t all fun and games! Feedback SEM time is expensive! BMJ’s Goofy Christmas Papers Academic Service Three horsemen: teaching, research, and service Manuscript Reviewers How Professors Spend Their Time...

What is “flyover country”? Is it the states in the middle of the US? A band name? A geoscience education app? One of these is true and the creator joins us to chat about it. A big thank you to listener Gary for pointing us to this topic! Feedback Automatic bullseye moving dartboard Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion Shane Loeffler Flyover Country App Macrostrat LacCore Lab Neotoma paleoecolo...

Pi-Hole MagicMirror Embedded.fm Making Embedded Systems Bullet vs. Prince Rupert’s Drop Bowen’s Reaction Series Wikipedia article Norman Bowen Geoman Article on Bowen’s Series Goldich dissolution series Gibb’s Free Energy Fun Paper Friday Can open table reservations be used to help determine how bad the flu is? Nsoesie, Elaine O., David L. Buckeridge, and John S. Brownstein. “Guess who’s not comin...

Bombogenesis Stella’s Bombogenesis Explosive cyclogenesis Rossby Waves Smarter Every Day : Prince Rupert’s Drop GEMPAK Bergen School of Meteorology Norwegian Cyclone Model Trough Sanders, Frederick, and John R. Gyakum. “Synoptic-dynamic climatology of the “bomb”.” Monthly Weather Review 108.10 (1980): 1589–1606. Fun Paper Friday Freezing water can explode? Yep! Find out how in this week’s fun pape...

John and Shannon both had windstorms this week and decided it was a great chance to talk about strange thermodynamics. Also halloween costumes and popcorn. Don’t miss this week’s mountain winds show! Mountain Winds Chinook Wind Adiabatic Process Lapse Rate Mountain waves Bora winds John’s UPS “Balloon Service" Chinook and Walla Walla brothers Fun Paper Friday Virot, Emmanuel, and Alexandre Ponomar...

This week we tackle a listener requested show - the transportable array! Join us as Robert Bubsy joins us to talk about managing the project. Transportable Array Robert Busby Wyoming telescope Judah Levine Sea ice data Depoloyment Timeline Tracking Hurricane Matthew with seismic noise Ground motion visualization Fun Paper Friday Mortimer, Nick, et al. “Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent.” GSA Tod...

Lauren and Dave Heerschap Real Science Innovations LLC Rule of V’s Blocks Brunton Axis Video of Axis in Action Real Science Innovations YouTube Channel Fun Paper Friday Did mountains growing make our brains bigger? Explore this tongue in cheek paper on the geo-cranial relation. Get ready for a good chuckle! Molnar, Peter. “The rise of mountain ranges and the evolution of humans: a causal relation?...

John is defending his dissertation, so he prepares by describing it to you! Meseum of Osteology XKCD Thesis Defense Origin of the Thesis NZ Earthquake Lights Hydraulic Press Channel Biaxal deformation press Fun Paper Friday How can we understand the brain? Is a processor the same thing? This study examines the classic 6502. Economist Column Jonas, Eric, and Konrad Paul Kording. “Could a neuroscien...

How many students will ever make a professional geologic map? Not many most likely. Is it still essential to learn? You bet! This week we discuss why and how it’s done. Field Methods Episode 32 Pocket Transit Manual Strike and Dip (YouTube) Interactive Grand Canyon Map PDF Grand Canyon Map Little Baldy Fun Paper Friday Slime molds predict best transportation routes? Internet comments misinterpret...