• British Geological Survey Hackathon
• SciPy 2016

• Modeling Rate and State Friction with Python | SciPy 2016 | John Leeman
• Working towards all the Geophysics, but Backwards | SciPy 2016 | Rowan Cockett
• Using Open Source Tools to Refactor Geoscience Education | SciPy 2016 | Lindsey Heagy
• MONTE Python for Deep Space Navigation | SciPy 2016 | Jonathon Smith
• Reproducible, One Button Workflows with the Jupyter Notebook & Scons | SciPy 2016 | Jessica Hamrick

• Nature Podcast Episode

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 and thank you Chris!

• Interference puts satellite data at risk

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This week a massive landslide took place in Alaska. Join us to discuss it, Jupiter’s wife, and electric eels on a geo-news episode!

• July 7, 2016 Oklahoma Heat Bursts
• AGU Landslide Blog Article
• Gizmodo Article on the landslide
• Phys.org Article
• Landslide Dynamics
• Juno reaches Jupiter

• Electric eels are creepy, but did you know that they can jump out of the water to better shock intruders? Neither did eel scientists!
• Catania, Kenneth C. “Leaping eels electrify threats, supporting Humboldt’s account of a battle with horses.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016): 201604009.
• Eel experiment videos
• Eeliad Project Summary

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What’s your favorite formation? It’s like asking a geologist what their favorite book is. Find out what Shannon has to say about the Fountain formation and then we connect it to metal music.

• Book Club!
• Fountain Formation
• Red Rocks Amphitheatre
• Flatirons
• Ancestral Rocky Mountains
• John McPhee

• What are the risks of headbanging to music? Would you believe there is a paper about it?
• Patton, Declan, and Andrew McIntosh. “Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass.” (2008): a2825.

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This week we talk about how academic papers get published and all the strange things they go through before you read them. Shannon also found us a fascinating fun paper about trees sleeping.

• Video of SF before and after the earthquake

• Open Access Publishing
• Episode 25 – “Scientists studying scientists” with Dr. Elizabeth Seiver

• Do trees sleep? The answer may surprise you. And LASERS!
• Live Science Article
• Puttonen, Eetu, et al. “Quantification of overnight movement of birch (Betula pendula) branches and foliage with short interval terrestrial laser scanning.” Frontiers in plant science 7 (2016).

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This week we talk about how one very famous aerial photograph was taken and how it relates to one of the most devastating earthquakes of the last century.

• An Introduction to the Use of Generalized Coordinates in Mechanics and Physics by William Elwood Byerly
• Berg Wind (Wikipedia)
• Berg Wind (AMS)

• 1906 Earthquake (USGS)
• George R. Lawrence
• Alton Limited locomotive
• Interactive and zoomable photo
• Scott Haefner SF 100 Years Later
• Scott Haefner Photography
• How the photo was taken
• How the camera position was determined

• Zink, Katherine D., and Daniel E. Lieberman. “Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans.” Nature(2016).

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Shannon has been feeling the effects of topography, temperature, and field weather conditions. This week we link geology and meteorology talking about Orographic lift and other made up words.

• Alvin
• Orographic Lift
• Anabatic wind
• Stoss
• Adiabatic Processes
• Atmospheric Lapse Rates
• Foehn Wind
• Katabatic Wind
• Chinook winds in Oklahoma
• Lenticular clouds
• Chinook Arch
• Rain Shadow

• Swearing could make it hurt less, unless you’re a sailor…
• Stephens, Richard, and Claudia Umland. “Swearing as a response to pain—Effect of daily swearing frequency.” The Journal of Pain 12.12 (2011): 1274–1281.

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This week we kick off summer shorts with our 2016 summer manifestos and talk about a relieving #FunPaperFriday.

• Work (again) on my first proposal
• Work with grad students on their projects
• High School Geoscience Academy
• Publish Dissertation Papers
• Setup a webpage
• Master the Mac

• Begin to tie together dissertation document
• Make a web application
• Get my General Class Ham License
• Prepare for my first class

• Yang, P. J., Pham, J., Choo, J., & Hu, D. L. (2014). Duration of urination does not change with body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(33), 11932–11937.
• Tracker Software

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Hey everyone! We've teamed up with The Orbital Mechanics to start a book club. Head over to theorbitalmechanics.com/bookclub and vote for what we should read together. 

This week we interview guest Natalie Accardo to learn about various seismic projects and lake bottom seismometers! We then pack pears with a behavioral #FunPaperFriday.

• Natalie’s website
• East African Rift system
• Lake Malawi
• SEGMeNT project
• 99% Invisible Podcast - Reefer Madness
• Airgun Test (Highspeed - YouTube)
• Evernote
• SUGAR Project

Chang, Tom, and Tal Gross. “How many pears would a pear packer pack if a pear packer could pack pears at quasi-exogenously varying piece rates?.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 99 (2014): 1–17.

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It’s raining. A lot. This week we talk about how we measure precipitation. We then discuss how beetles use stars to navigate in this week’s Fun Paper Friday.

• Korean Cheugugi
• Tipping bucket
• Standard Rain Gauge
• Pluviometer of intensities
• Weighing Rain Gauge
• Optical Rain Gauge
• IR Rain Sensor
• Acoustic Rain Gauge

• el Jundi, Basil, et al. “A Snapshot-Based Mechanism for Celestial Orientation.” Current Biology (2016).
• Washington Post Article
• Video of the Dung Beetle Dance

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