Episode 40 - "Pumpkin Sedimentation"

This week Shannon talks about back to back field trips, broken airplanes, and rain. John relates a story about a strange northeast tradition and shares a traffic related fun paper.

Shannon’s Trip

• Paper about zebra dolomite
• Sand Bar Videos
• Glen Canyon Dam
• Hoover Dam
• Riffle
• Lee’s Ferry
• Kring Paper in Episode 30
• Meteor Crater
• Lowell Observatory

Punkin’ Chunkin’

• Howard, PA Chunkin’ Website
• Graupel
• World Championship Punkin Chunkin
• Smokin’ Lamas

Fun Paper Friday

• Have you ever been stuck in traffic and wondered why the traffic jam moves like a wave? This week we discuss the dynamics of traffic jams.
• Giant traffic jam in China
• Kerner, B. S. (1998). Experimental features of self-organization in traffic flow. Physical Review Letters, 81(17), 3797–3800. http://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.3797
• Flynn, Morris R., et al. “Self-sustained nonlinear waves in traffic flow.” Physical Review E 79.5 (2009): 056113.

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