Don't Panic Geocast

By John Leeman and Shannon DulinScience Technology Education Natural Sciences

Don't Panic Geocast episodes

April 01, 2022Episode 325 - "It turns to mud"
Last week Shannon was out in the field taking samples in the area of the Colorado River. This week we find out what she was doing and the history of that region.
Fun Paper Friday
We have policies on making your data available to journal readers, but are they effective?
Stodden, Victoria, Jennifer Seiler, and Zhaokun Ma. "An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115.11 (2018): 2584-2589.
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56 min
March 26, 2022Episode 324 - "Nanoknots"
This week it's all about hot spots and Hawaii!
Loihi
Emperor Seamount Chain
HUGO
Fun Paper Friday
Does removing something take more brain power than adding something?
Adams, Gabrielle S., et al. "People systematically overlook subtractive changes." Nature 592.7853 (2021): 258-261.
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44 min
March 19, 2022Episode 323 - "Bug light for nerds"
What would we be doing in an alternate universe? We explore careers we almost took and how they relate to things we talk about all the time.
Fun Paper Friday
Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
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49 min
March 11, 2022Episode 322 - "TeX Makes it Beautiful"
LaTeX is a beautiful way to make documents, especially when they have lots of equations, tables, and more. This week we dive into how you too can talk TeX.
Download MikTeX
Fun Paper Friday
Matsui, Takafumi, et al. "The manufacture and origin of the Tutankhamen meteoritic iron dagger." Meteoritics & Planetary Science (2022).
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March 05, 2022Episode 321 - "Big Peas"
John and Shannon are tired of the wintery mix weather they've been getting, but at least now we understand what makes it! We also introduce the term "heated fellowship" and talk about if packs of wolves should be introduced to reduce road kill incidents.
Fun Paper Friday
Are wolves the solution to a deer problem?
Raynor, Jennifer L., Corbett A. Grainger, and Dominic P. Parker. "Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.22 (2021).
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46 min
February 18, 2022Episode 320 - "Hunga Tonga"
The Hunga Tonga eruption is one of the largest eruptions observed with modern equipment. This week we'll dig into what happened, how it was observed, and what we think is next for the island chain.
Fun Paper Friday
In line with the show (for once!) we look at shock waves on Mars... or lack thereof.
Fernando, Benjamin, et al. "Questions to Heaven." Astronomy & Geophysics 62.LA-UR-21-31668 (2021).
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44 min
February 12, 2022Episode 319 - "Ions in Solution"
This week it's all about chemistry, not something we say often! We chat chemical weathering and exactly what all those ions mean.
Fun Paper Friday
Leibring, Katharina. "Names of companion animals: Rovers in the onomasticon?." 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow 25-29 Aug, 2014. Vol. 5. University of Glasgow, 2016.
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46 min
February 05, 2022Episode 318 - "Sandstones are Forever"
Weathering is what breaks the Earth down so it can be recycled, this week we dive into the mechanical methods of weathering the surface.
Fun Paper Friday
What feedbacks can penguin poo have on glaciers?
Wang, Peiyan, et al. "Combined effects of glacial retreat and penguin activity on soil greenhouse gas fluxes on South Georgia, sub-Antarctica." Science of The Total Environment 718 (2020): 135255.
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52 min
January 29, 2022Episode 317 - "Is your tinfoil hat the same as mine?"
There are lots of rumored precursors to earthquakes - everything from dogs acting strange to flashes of light in the sky. This week we take a look at a few of these and discuss how possible or impossible they may be.
Flashbulb Memory Effect
Earthquake Lights
Animal Behavior
Temperature Changes
Gas Emissions
Electromagnetic Changes
Fun Paper Friday
What is hip? When will it be hip again? Will Shannon and John stop saying hip?
Golman, Russell, Aditi Jain, and Sonica Saraf. "Hipsters and the Cool: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Social Identity, Trends and Fads." arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13385 (2019).
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59 min
January 15, 2022Episode 316 - "A centimeter is good enough"
This week we dive into differential GPS and WAAS - how we can tell exactly where we are on the planet.
WAAS
Differential GPS
Sparkfun Facet
Fun Paper Friday
What can we learn from a glowing jellyfish brain? Turns out, quite a bit!
Phys.org article
Weissbourd, Brandon, et al. "A genetically tractable jellyfish model for systems and evolutionary neuroscience." Cell 184.24 (2021): 5854-5868.
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John Leeman and Shannon Dulin discuss geoscience and technology weekly for your enjoyment! Features include guests, fun paper Friday selections, product reviews, and banter about recent developments.…