We've got the crew from Don't Panic Geocast on the show this week. We talk science, podcasting, and beer. This episode includes a bloopers reel at the beginning, because we can't keep up with our own technology! Since Don't Panic Geocast's crew has so much great info, this is a double length episode. Listen to Don't Panic Geocast on iTunes here.This week's show notes are here

This week we ask a really smart person really dumb questions. Dr. Jessica Ball is a volcanologist at the USGS who publishes, blogs, and teaches too. Her research is in the ridiculously cool field of geothermal modeling of volcanos, especially with reference to groundwater systems. Find all of the deets in the show notes here

This week's bush league episode is brought to you by Linux. Linux; it's completely unstable. Our recording software broke 5 times during this episode. Our editor tried to smooth things over in post-production, but did a terrible job! Which is good for you, because if you can spot all the faulty breaks, and point them out to us at swung.rocks, Matt will sing a song in your honor on next week's show. Show notes here

We finally have a data scientist on the show! Dr. Ethan Rosenthal is a data scientist at Birch Box. He's got a blog and a Twitter account and is full of great information. We ask him the question "what is data science anyway?" Listen in to hear Dr. Rosenthal speak about his experience in optimization problems and customer-product matching algorithms. Check out the show notes to find links to all of this stuff here. 

This week matt and GRAM try out a show with no guest. The result? A longwinded description of nerdy science stuff without expert input! But do listen in, as we discuss kinematic geological modeling, a photograph-to-image hack, good (and not so good) reference material, and machine learning! Want to skip the snoozefest? The show notes have all the information, without all the fluff.

Dr. Morgan Brown is a world expert in all things depth imaging. His current role includes sales, and he's been doing a lot of thinking about the role geotech plays in this current marketplace. In this episode learn about the evolution of intellectual assets and where we're headed in the next few years. Morgan's G+ profile is here, where you can find info on all of his projects, including parts of his professional lecture series (thus saving you a ton of money). Hit Matt up with your geo hackathon theme ideas here, and find this week's show notes here.

This week we speak with Scott Wessels, VP of Geoscience at PetroEdge energy. He discusses the uses of modern technology as a means of squeezing new potential out of old assets. Scott's early carrer specialty was using microseismic to derisk prospects in developed fields. If you haven't the foggiest what microseismic is, read the SEGwiki description here, and then read everything else there is on SEGwiki becuase it's awesome. Check out this week's show notes here.

This episode examines the intracacies of color theory as it relates to the representation of image data. Our guest, Matteo Niccoli, on Twitter as @My_Carta and in the blogging world, loves accurate color maps. Learn about his work with color, his new tool sketch2model, and his thoughts on the NASA space apps 2016 challenge. See all of the info from this show with references and links in our open source

This week we have Sebastian Good as our guest. Sebastian's company Palladium Consulting [update: now Expero] builds custom software in a variety of industries. Listen in to learn the skills it takes to be on a team like his! Visit the show notes.