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Dr. Sue Webb joins us today for a discussion about potential field inversion, the future of geoscience in Africa, and the AfricaArray project. Sue's been an integral part of driving the new frontier of geoscience in Africa; she's run the field school for a couple of decades and taught hundreds (maybe thousands) of students how to #geosci. The key to continued success in this domain is to "franchise" out the education process by teaching others how to run their own field schools and geoscience curriculum. See the show notes here.

Evan Bianco (Evan the magnificent) joins us for a summary of the Calgary GeoConference, an interior look at Agile Scientific, and a lesson on guitar-playing/half-marathon-winning. Don't worry, this episode isn't all conference bashing and bad times, there is actually quite a bit (two minutes) of constructive idea baking. Sidestep the morass with the show notes, here.

The UR crew is gearing up for the Paris hackathon! Get ready to tune in live this Saturday (and maybe Sunday, depending on our mood).

GRAM puts his foot further into his mouth today. You'll remember his claim in episode 41 (mere weeks ago) that forward problems are dead. You can also find an entire blog post he wrote about forward problems being dead. Well he's here today to announce: he's working on a new forward problem, because forward problems are awesome!

Tune in this week to laugh at GRAM's foolishness, hear about some really cool developments in the ML domain, and wish matt a happy birthday. Also, there are two riddles involving Roman numerals! There are no show notes this week; did you think we're professionals or something?

This week the crew from SEG's podcast, Seismic Soundoff, joins Undersampled Radio for a chat about interesting modes of scicomm and community outreach. Our guests are also the authors of the excellent SEG Wiki, which is another great resource for geoscientists of various disciplines. Matt gives 'em a grilling on what the SEG is, could be, and should be doing to enable the spread of geoscience knowledge. Have a read of the show notes here.

This week Flynn Zaiger, owner of Online Optimism, joins us for a chat about sending your message to the world. Online Optimism is a digital marketing firm building better futures for companies passionate about their craft. Flynn chats with the UR boys about following your calling, and how to sell that calling. Check out the show notes here.

Welcome to UR Sock Sessions. This is an experiment gone horribly wrong. GRAM and matt visited Chris Jackson in New York during his GSA Distinguished Lecturer tour. The three were joined by Ethan Rosenthal (who's also been on the show a couple of times). One late night, the four kicked off their shoes, cracked a beer, and chatted while the cameras rolled. There was no script (obviously) and no acoustic dampening (sorry). There are also no show notes. So, godspeed... you have our sincere apologies.

What's an inverse? How do we invigorate and open up scientific curricula? Is it possible for one person to work on (and crush) 10 simultaneous projects? Lindsey Heagy answers these questions for us on the show this week. If you're not a regular show note reader, make sure to at least skim this week's notes, they're amazingly robust.

This week we have Katelyn Salem of Kate Tectonics on the show. If you haven't watched their videos, do so immediately; you'll thank us. We did. And then we invited Katelyn to UR to teach us how the Kate Tectonics team makes such awesome videos! Obviously, we didn't take her advice (just look at our video quality). Keeping in line with Matt's and Gram's current quest for valuable science communication techniques we also discuss the merits of video as a scicomm outreach media. This is a great episode, but if you can't stand to hear us blather on, you can find the show notes here.

Dr. Ethan Rosenthal's back! This time he's live-and-direct in the studio for another chat about data science and recommendation systems. Ethan's been playing with neural networks recently, and we grill him a bit on it (as you know, Matt's an expert NN wizard). Visit the show notes for links to Ethan's excellent blog and various bio pages.

Thomas Martin joins us this week to teach us about electric geophysical methods. We discuss MT and Thomas' specialty, CSEM. We dive into methods, techniques, limitations, and successes of these electric methods, and as a bonus we get to hear about life in the beauty of the volcano town! Read the show notes for some awesome refs that Thomas has provided.