Don't Panic Geocast

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

• How much fluff collects in your belly button and why? This author scratched his own itch. Literally.
• Steinhauser, Georg. “The nature of navel fluff.” Medical hypotheses 72.6 (2009): 623–625.

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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

• Does jargon make you seem more or less professional? Found out in this week’s fun paper!
• Berman, Jessica R., et al. “Fellow use of medical jargon correlates inversely with patient and observer perceptions of professionalism: results of a rheumatology OSCE (ROSCE) using challenging patient scenarios.” Clinical rheumatology 35.8 (2016): 2093–2099.

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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 (Book)

• The Boring Company

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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 Refactor Geoscience Education | SciPy 2016 | Lindsey Heagy
• John’s Geotech Class
• Open Source Hardware Association
• Embedded.fm 193: AXIOMATICALLY DID NOT HAPPEN
• Railroader’s Memorial Museum
• Arduino vs. Arduino
• Kirchhoff Equations

• What problem could possibly stump the likes of Feynman? Turns out, it’s spaghetti!
• Audoly, Basile, and Sébastien Neukirch. “Fragmentation of rods by cascading cracks: why spaghetti does not break in half.” Physical review letters 95.9 (2005): 095505.

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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 some huge dams and what they do to both communities and rivers.

• Oroville (1968) is the tallest in the US, and earthen dam in CA 770’ high
• Hoover (1935) is next at 726’ high on the border of AZ and NV
• Tallest dam in the world is Jingping-I dam (2013) in China is 1000’ high
• Largest reservoir in the US is Lake Mead, which holds 29 million acre-feet of water
• Glen Canyon dam
• Lake Powell on the AZ/UT border, and is a close second at 26 million acre-feet capacity.
• Colorado River
• WPA

• Water supply
• Irrigation and flood control
• Power supply
• Recreation

• Hoover dam generates 4.5 billion kw-hr per year, serving 8 million people in AZ, southern CA and NV
• Itaipu dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay, dams the Parana River, the 7th largest in the world.
• Penstock

Borgonie, G., et al. “Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa.” Nature communications 6 (2015).

Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember…nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone!

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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!

• Fulgurite (Wikipedia)
• Lechatelierite
• Planar deformation features
• Lightning induced remanent magnetizations
• Verrier, V., and P. Rochette. “Estimating peak currents at ground lightning impacts using remanent magnetization.” Geophysical Research Letters 29.18 (2002).

• This week we scratch the fun paper itch - literally. Can scratching in a mirror trick your brain?
• Helmchen, Christoph, et al. “Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. A Psychophysical Study.” PloS one 8.12 (2013): e82756.

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

• John’s Hackaday Prize Entry
• New Prince Rupert’s Drop Video
• We Martians - Esker Questions
• Episode 92 - Martian Esker Fun Paper

• 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

• Mysterious caves and giant animals - this week’s fun paper has all the makings of a good thriller!
• Get Lost in Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna
• Star Trek Silicon Based Life

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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

• Can Batman fly like in Batman Begins? John hasn’t seen the film, but physics comes to the rescue.
• Marshall, David, et al. “A2_9 Trajectory of a falling Batman.” Physics Special Topics 10.1 (2011).

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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 rock
• Pictures of metamorphic rocks
• Griggs apparatus
• Pole figures
• Example LPO paper
• Metamorphic facies

• Listener Darryl send in this fun paper with a glowing review.
• Science Magazine Article
• Belkin, Shimshon, et al. “Remote detection of buried landmines using a bacterial sensor.” Nature Biotechnology 35.4 (2017): 308–310.

Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin