Don't Panic Geocast

By John Leeman and Shannon Dulin

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. ... more

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May 15, 2021Episode 290 - "COAL!"
This week it's all about coal - what is it, where did it form, and how do we use it!
Fun Paper Friday
Can seismometers be used to spy on industrial processes?
Guenaga, David L., et al. "Seismically Detecting Nuclear Reactor Operations Using a Power Spectral Density (PSD) Misfit Detector." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2021).
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May 01, 2021Episode 289 - "Soil Teapot"
How do geysers work? Learn more this week!
Old Faithful
Fun Paper Friday
The title says it all in this week's Fun Paper!
Wang, Lu, Zdenek Sofer, and Martin Pumera. "Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?." ACS nano 14.1 (2020): 21-25.
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April 16, 2021Episode 288 - "95% Chance of Chert" Mineral Identification
How do you identify a mineral? We talk about our favorite ways to identify minerals!
Fun Paper Friday
How does heavy water taste? Will it kill you? Find out by reading this week's Fun Paper Friday!
Abu, Natalie Ben, et al. "Sweet taste of heavy water." Communications Biology 4.1 (2021): 1-10.
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April 10, 2021Episode 287 - "Cartoonist in Word Form" Gary McManus
Gary McManus joins us to talk about state climatology and extremes in Oklahoma!
Gary
Mesonet
Fun Paper Friday
Hurricanes in space? It's raining electrons in this week's fun paper Friday!
Zhang, Qing-He, et al. "A space hurricane over the Earth’s polar ionosphere." Nature communications 12.1 (2021): 1-10.
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April 03, 2021Episode 286 - "Big Sandbox for Adults" Maciej Obryk, Kate Allstadt, Thomas Rapstine
Thanks to Dr. Maciej Obryk, Dr. Kate Allstadt, and Dr. Thomas Rapstine for joining us to talk about the USGS experimental flume!
Flume Experiment Videos
Dr. Maciej Obryk
Dr. Kate Allstadt
Dr. Thomas Rapstine
Fun Paper Friday
This week we see how an undergarment can become a lifesaving bit of technology.
EBbra
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March 26, 2021Episode 285 - "We're not going to tell you how to make it" Geology Field Kit
Field Kit
Sokkia Notebook
Holster/Backpack
Handlens
Hammer
Belt
Pocket Transit
Gilson Grain Size Card
Acid Bottle
Pocket Knife
Pencils/Lead
Protractor Ruler Combo
Streak Plate
Mohs Picks
Fun Paper Friday
What can we learn about the Earth's magnetic field from tree rings?
Cooper, Alan, et al. "A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago." Science 371.6531 (2021): 811-818.
Science Mag Article
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March 20, 2021Episode 284 - "Dijon or Yellow" Geomajik Box
What's in the box?
Geophones
Load Cell
Resistivity Setup
Color
Magnetometer
Accelerometer
Turbidity Sensor
Water Velocity Sensor
Fun Paper Friday
What happens when no AI research can be reproduced? Any angry site to shame those authors!
One researcher’s mission to encourage reproducibility in machine learning
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March 07, 2021Episode 283 - "There are spectrograms"
This week we talk about flow regimes in streams, more bedforms, and then wrap it up with a discussion of what crocodiles sound like after breathing helium!
Fun Paper Friday
Thanks to listener Teresa for this week's fun paper!
Reber, Stephan A., et al. "A Chinese alligator in heliox: formant frequencies in a crocodilian." Journal of Experimental Biology 218.15 (2015): 2442-2447.
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March 02, 2021Episode 282 - "Antidunes"
This week we talk all about sediment bedforms and everyone's favorite - antidunes!

Watch John's Flume Experiments from 11 years ago

Froude Number

Fun Paper Friday

Smarandache, Florentin. Funny Problems. Infinite Study, 2000.

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February 28, 2021Episode 281 - "Bill's over there chewing on his buddy" The Cambrian Explosion
When and why did life diversify? This week we go WAY BACK to the Cambrian and hang out with hungry worms and trilobites to discover what happened.
Fun Paper Friday

Did you know that Wombats poop cubes? Now you do!

Yang, Patricia J., et al. "Intestines of non-uniform stiffness mold the corners of wombat feces." Soft Matter (2021).

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