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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January 23, 2015Episode 1 - Clippy is Gone Now, Clippy Was Not a Help
Episode 1 - Clippy is Gone Now, Clippy Was Not a Help
We discuss paper writing, figure making, debate the merits of our favorite software, and discuss a possible explanation of last week’s mysterious booms in Oklahoma. Shannon also discovers that John does strange things with his spare time and a police radar gun. We discuss the demise of clippy, the MS Word virtual assistant.
Global Warming Trend Graphic
John’s blog post on using a police radar gun for raindrop speed
Paper and Report Writing
John uses LaTeX, specifically MacTeX
Shannon uses MS Word mostly
There is value in features like track changes, scripting, distraction free environments, formatting, figure numbering, etc.
John uses markdown initially to have a distraction free writing environment (in the atom editor)
LaTeX help is easy to find!
Poster and Figure Making
Many options, but some are better than others
Powerpoint (please don’t use this for posters or figures)
Adobe Illustrator (expensive, steep learning curve, but good)
Inkscape (free clone of Illustrator at the slight expense of install/usability headache)
Photoshop
InDesign
KalidaGraph
IGOR Pro
Python
Plot.ly
Update on Oklahoma Booms
There was talk that these could have been a result of a thermal inversion
Demo of how sound bends in an inversion can be found on Dr. Dan Russell’s site and this YouTube video.
Civil War may have been influenced by acoustic propagation. There is a summary article and book about it.
We found a 1984 newspaper article from Oklahoma mentioning this phenomena.
FunPaperFriday - Radio Bursts from Blitzars
A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up (Petroff et al.)
Related New Scientist Article
Contact us:
Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of our employers or funding agencies.
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January 16, 2015Episode 0 - "Hello World!"
Episode 0 - “Hello World!”
In this episode, we discuss what this podcast is, who we are, and wrap up our conference travels. We also throw out our nominations for this week’s “Fun Paper Friday.”
The Podcast
We’ll be discussing: - Recent news/discoveries in geoscience - Technology that helps get the job done - Interviews with leaders in the field or interesting people - Conference stories - Bantering about any geo vs. tech topic - #FunPaperFriday articles
This podcast is for anyone working in, interested in, or vaguely associated with the Earth sciences. As Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers would say, we will often discuss things “unencumbered by the thought process.”
Who we are
John Leeman and Shannon Dulin, meteorology and geology geeks.
Winter Conference Wrap-Up
GSA - Vancouver, BC
Woolard Award winner-using paleomagnetism and continental reconstructions to determine how extinctions occurred.
Digital poster sessions integrating google earth and structural geology
Digital posters showing how drones are becoming more used to bring geology to students
AGU - San Francisco, CA
Nearly 24,000 people, about 30% students!
Interesting talks on friction as a fracture process, coaxial cable Bragg grating strain-meters, and slow-slip being stopped by earthquakes in NZ.
John co-chaired a student pop-up session and presented both science and a fun talk on using sensors in education. You can build a copy of his 3D Compass.
FunPaperFriday
John’s Paper - Frostquakes in New England - Barosh (2000), especially relevant after the mysterious booms reported in Oklahoma last week. Frostquakes have caused ground fracture before.
Shannon’s Paper - (Okay, not a paper, but a cool website from me this week!) http://scieastereggs.tumblr.com/
Contact us:
Show
www.dontpanicgeocast.com
@dontpanicgeo
[email protected]
John Leeman
www.johnrleeman.com
@geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin
@ShannonDulin
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