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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July 31, 2015Episode 28 - "You can tag your abstract with emoji. Wait, what?"
This week we get ready for conference abstract deadlines and talk about how we prepare abstracts. Everyone is finally back in town, but not for long!
Pluto show next week!
Abstract deadlines: AGU 8/5, GSA 8/11
GSA, new topical abstracts (search visually by emoji!)
How we prepare to write abstracts
Choosing the topical material. When do you stop reporting on research?*
Think about what session to submit to
Mind maps
Outlines
Stream of conscience writing
Abstract Madlibs
Don’t do this steps hours before it is due. Leave days to mull it over
How preliminary is your data? Is it ready for an abstract?
Writing the abstract
Check the conference guidelines… then check them again.
Open an editor. John uses plain text editors initially.
Send it around for others to look at
Decide on authorship early
Tools for collaborating (a whole other show)
Google docs
Word/dropbox
Evernote (although everyone involved needs premium)
Email… if you do this, please don’t admit it
Other Notes
AGU offering free conference registration
Be sure to submit a 5-minute Pop-Up Talk
Problems
How to pick a session (look for others you know?)
Submission system crashing
Getting people to edit it!
Over-reporting
Fun Paper Friday
This week we read about recovering old sounds from recordings with a microscope. Also hearing cursing at lab instruments in the old days. Nothing changes.
A Sweet Sound: Physicists Reconstruct Primitive Recordings
Applied Science SEM vinyl image
Contact us:
Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
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45min
July 24, 2015Episode 27 - "They are terrifying" a volcanic road trip
Shannon hits the road again, so we talk about volcanics, earthquakes, and other disasters that can occur in the pacific northwest. We even talk about native stories of earthquakes and tsunamis.
Mount Rainier
Snake River
Crater Lake
Lassen Volcanics
Craters of the Moon
Capulin Volcano
1700 Cascadia Earthquake
Bonneville Slide
Orphan Tsunami
Story of the Thunderbird and Whale
Hitchhiker’s Guide Whale Scene
Great Basin National Park
Fun Paper Friday
When could Yellowstone erupt again? This week’s fun paper examines magma chamber refueling. Lots of neat geochemical profiles and diffusion techniques.
Till, Christy B., Jorge A. Vazquez, and Jeremy W. Boyce. “Months between rejuvenation and volcanic eruption at Yellowstone caldera, Wyoming.” Geology (2015): G36862–1.
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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
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26min
July 17, 2015Episode 26 - "Can I speak to your online librarian?" Top 10 Google Tips
Top 10 Google Search Tips
Use the tabs
Use quotes
Exclude results with -
Google Scholar
Broaden the scope of your search by removing words
Think like the person writing the article
Search for a filetype:
Use Google Books
Use the forums
Mine references and link lists
Other Links
Linear scanner
Google search characters
Research tips - Still Untitled : The Adam Savage Project
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
stackoverflow
Fun Paper Friday
Maher Al-Dayeh & Neal Evans. Acoustic imaging of thunder from rocket-triggered lightning. 2015 Joint Assembly of American and Canadian Geophysical Societies. Abstract # AS31A–07
AGU Abstract
Nature Article (with video)
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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
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38min
July 10, 2015Episode 25 - "Scientists studying scientists" with Dr. Elizabeth Seiver
Join John and special guest Dr. Elizabeth Seiver of PLOS (Public Library of Science) in Austin, TX at the scientific Python (SciPy) conference to talk open science and geek tools! Sorry for the slight echo in the room, we did what we could with the audio!
Elizabeth on twitter: @tweetotaler
PLOS
Alison Gopnik’s Berkeley Lab
SciPy 2015
arXiv
Figshare
Dryad
Digital Object Identifier
Paywall
Polymath Project
nvALT
Simplenote
Drafts
TextExpander
Keyboard Maestro
Alfred App
arXiv Citation Study
Cameron Neylon's open science blog
Reviewer/Authoring Guessing Study
VisPy Talk from SciPy
Hazel for Mac
FunPaperFriday
Keller, Joseph B. “Ponytail motion.” SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 70.7 (2010): 2667–2672.
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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
Keyboard Maestro Todo List:
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36min
July 03, 2015Episode 24 - "Are you staying with Doc Brown?"
John is on the road headed to the SciPy conference and Shannon is done with field camp. Join us to hear the wrap up and talk about how geology was used strategically in the Revolutionary War on this fourth of July weekend episode.
Watchung Mountains
Area geologic summary
Middlebrook encampment
Nike Missile
Cheyenne Mountain
NORAD
Fun Paper Friday
This week we learn about perchlorate from fireworks and how long it can reside in lakes.
Wilkin, R. T., Fine, D. D., & Burnett, N. G. (2007). Perchlorate Behavior in a Municipal Lake Following Fireworks Displays. Environmental Science & Technology, 41(11), 3966–3971. http://doi.org/10.1021/es0700698
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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
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27min
June 26, 2015Episode 23 - "If there's one glacial feature, everything is named after it"
This week Shannon summarizes her field trip and John talks about rock slides and his coming travel. We also talk about organized patterns of dripping syrup.
John will be at the SciPy Conference
Tropical Storm Bill has caused a lot of problems!
Oklahoma Rock Slide
Turner Falls
John’s 3D Compass
Shannon found a unique use for her field notes notebooks
Rocky Mountain National Park
Glacial Moraine
Cirques
Paternoster Lakes
Sheep Mountain Anticline
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Tetons National Park
OU Fieldcamp Blog
Big Thompson Canyon Flood
Fun Paper Friday
This week we learn about stick patterns formed by viscous fluids falling on a surface. It could be honey on toast or telecommunications cable on the ocean floor. Check out the video as well!
Brun, P. T., Audoly, B., Ribe, N. M., Eaves, T. S., & Lister, J. R. (2015). Liquid Ropes: A Geometrical Model for Thin Viscous Jet Instabilities. Physical Review Letters, 114(17), 174501–5. http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.174501
Video of different fluid patterns
Contact us:
Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
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29min
June 19, 2015Episode 22 - "It was like two Volkswagens Battling" National Parks
Join us this week as we talk about our favorite national parks while Shannon is on the road. Then we’ll talk about kinetic energy of empty and full beer bottles as part of Fun Paper Friday!
Glacier National Park
Heads up display for snowplows
Book: Geology of National Parks
Belt Supergroup
Arches National Park
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Arch Collapses
Canyonalnds National Park
Upheaval Dome
Fun Paper Friday
Have you ever thought about how much force a beer bottle can exert when you strike something with it? Bollinger et al. have! Do you think full or empty bottles are more dangerous?
Bolliger, S. A., Ross, S., Oesterhelweg, L., Thali, M. J., & Kneubuehl, B. P. (2009). Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 16(3), 138–142. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013
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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
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26min
June 12, 2015Episode 21 - "Think of an anticline, that's what you're thinking of"
This week we catch up with Shannon’s field adventure and John’s poster and pitch competition.
Sheep Mountain Anticline
Grand Teton National Park
John participated in a 2 minute pitch contest as part of Millennium Cafe. PPG Industries sponsored the event and it was a great success!
Fun Paper Friday
What’s the best use for an onion? To make artificial muscles of course!
Chen, C.-C., Shih, W.-P., Chang, P.-Z., Lai, H.-M., Chang, S.-Y., Huang, P.-C., & Jeng, H.-A. (2015). Onion artificial muscles. Applied Physics Letters, 106(18), 183702–6. http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4917498
Contact us:
Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
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23min
June 05, 2015Episode 20 - "It was like 1.5 Cores plus a Twister" San Andreas Movie
This week we talk more about your field photos, the movie San Andreas, mining country in Colorado, and chocolate blooming!
Your Photos!
Last week we talked about the Manefay Slide instead of the Jordan slide that Mark sent photos of. Sorry Mark!
Hannah and Martin’s Photos
Siccar Point
Old Red Sandstone
Hutton’s Unconformity
How a geologist sees the world
San Andreas
Ok movie, lots of bad science
Talks about earthquake triggering!
Also does a good job with duck and cover examples
Check out the trailer!
Shannon’s Field Trips
Leadville, Colorado
Colorado Mineral Belt
Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine
Fun Paper Friday
What causes chocolate to get that white growth? This week we find out that it’s very similar to geological growths and investigated with similar techniques!
Reinke, S. K., Roth, S. V., Santoro, G., Vieira, J., Heinrich, S., & Palzer, S. (2015). Tracking Structural Changes in Lipid-based Multicomponent Food Materials due to Oil Migration by Microfocus Small-Angle X-ray Scattering. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7(18), 9929–9936. http://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b02092
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Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
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26min
May 29, 2015Episode 19 - "The whole office is batteries"
TOPCON GPS Instruments
Listener Mark sent in field photos from the Bingham Canyon Mine
Checkout Mark’s Images
Jordan Slide
Some general RADAR information
Greenwood Furnace State Park
Blast Furnace Basics
LightSail Mission
Fun Paper Friday
This week we learn about pressure. Pressure has to be generated for Penguins to poo outside of thier nest. How much pressure? We know the answer!
Meyer-Rochow, V. B., & Gal, J. (2003). Pressures produced when penguins pooh?calculations on avian defaecation. Polar Biology, 27(1), 56–58. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00300–003–0563–3
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20min

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