Don't Panic Geocast

This week we learn the ABC's again! It's time for another geology ABC's series with some great new words to learn. Join us for part one of this two part series.

• Brucks, Désirée, and Auguste MP von Bayern. "Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards." Current Biology (2020).

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This week we talk about stress, strain, and how they are different!

• See how to get data from natural drones and download it via USBee in this week's Fun Paper!
• Iyer, Vikram, et al. "Living IoT: A flying wireless platform on live insects." The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. 2019.

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This week we interview Dr. Eric Kelsey about winter precipitation and his ventures into open-source hardware!

• Dr. Kelsey's Plymouth Page
• Mt. Washington Observatory

• Weimerskirch, Henri, et al. "Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.6 (2020): 3006-3014.

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This week Dr.Alison Nugent joins us to talk about giant cloud condensation nuclei and life as an assistant professor of atmospheric science in Hawaii.

• Alison's Website
• Facebook: @Dr.AlisonNugent
• Instagram: cloudyday24

• Hinners, Paige, Madison Thomas, and Young Jin Lee. "Determining fingerprint age with mass spectrometry imaging via ozonolysis of triacylglycerols." Analytical Chemistry (2020).

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This week we talk about rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow in the follow up to the winter storm that hit the plains this week. Why do these occur? Find out!

• Neuroskeptic. "The nine circles of scientific hell." Perspectives on Psychological Science 7.6 (2012): 643-644.

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This week it's all about aquifers and how they work! Water does not sit in lakes underground, but truth is stranger than fiction.

• Upper, Dennis. "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”." Journal of applied behavior analysis 7.3 (1974): 497.

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This week John recaps his trip to AMS and Shannon teases a show on her field work!

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• TORUS project
• WX Symbols
• NCAR Dropsonde
• Tim's Cowbell Video

• This week it's a meaty subject!
• Cole, James. "Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic." Scientific reports 7 (2017): 44707.

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What's that in the sky? A bird? A plane? No, it's a scary looking cloud! Find out what it was this week!

• Flammagenitus (with great chart at the bottom)
• Australia Pyrocumulus
• Kelvin Helmholtz Instability
• Lenticular Cloud
• Wired Article on Morning Glories
• Nacreous Clouds
• Noctilucent Clouds
• Arcus Clouds
• Mammatus Clouds

• Hart, Vlastimil, et al. "Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field." Frontiers in zoology 10.1 (2013): 80.

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This week we go over the last year and discuss our plans for 2020 before diving into a discussion on pupil shapes in various animals. Don't miss it!

• Banks, Martin S., et al. "Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?." Science advances 1.7 (2015): e1500391.

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This week we finish up talking about deserts with some of our favorite features - dunes, ventifacts, and more!

• Sailing Stones
• Ventifact
• Dunes

• How can math and physics "improve" hunting a lion?
• Pétard, H. "A contribution to the mathematical theory of big game hunting." Amer. Math. Monthly 45 (1938): 446-447.

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