Don't Panic Geocast

What's it like to be told you need to teach field geology online? This week we talk about distance learning in higher-ed. Fun Paper Friday What's special about 33? Booker, Andrew R. "Cracking the problem with 33." Research in Number Theory 5.3 (2019): 26. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

It's time to finish our ABC's! Also we discuss things of a fecal culinary nature on Fun Paper Friday! N - Neap tide O - Ophiolite P - Placer Deposit Q - Quadrangle R - Rating Curve S - Seamount T - Tidewater Glacier U - Unconformity V - Varve W - Womble Shale X - Xyloid Coal Y-Yazoo Stream Z - Zone of Aeration Fun Paper Friday This week... pooopknives.pdf! Eren, Metin I., et al. "Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27 (2019): 102002. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we learn the ABC's again! It's time for another geology ABC's series with some great new words to learn. Join us for part one of this two part series. Fun Paper Friday Brucks, Désirée, and Auguste MP von Bayern. "Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards." Current Biology (2020). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about stress, strain, and how they are different! Fun Paper Friday See how to get data from natural drones and download it via USBee in this week's Fun Paper! Iyer, Vikram, et al. "Living IoT: A flying wireless platform on live insects." The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. 2019. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we interview Dr. Eric Kelsey about winter precipitation and his ventures into open-source hardware! Dr. Kelsey's Plymouth Page Mt. Washington Observatory Fun Paper Friday Weimerskirch, Henri, et al. "Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.6 (2020): 3006-3014. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week Dr.Alison Nugent joins us to talk about giant cloud condensation nuclei and life as an assistant professor of atmospheric science in Hawaii. Alison's Website Facebook: @Dr.AlisonNugent Instagram: cloudyday24 Fun Paper Friday Hinners, Paige, Madison Thomas, and Young Jin Lee. "Determining fingerprint age with mass spectrometry imaging via ozonolysis of triacylglycerols." Analytical Chemistry (2020). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow in the follow up to the winter storm that hit the plains this week. Why do these occur? Find out! Fun Paper Friday Neuroskeptic. "The nine circles of scientific hell." Perspectives on Psychological Science 7.6 (2012): 643-644. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week it's all about aquifers and how they work! Water does not sit in lakes underground, but truth is stranger than fiction. Fun Paper Friday Upper, Dennis. "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”." Journal of applied behavior analysis 7.3 (1974): 497. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week John recaps his trip to AMS and Shannon teases a show on her field work! Find AMS talks here TORUS project WX Symbols NCAR Dropsonde Tim's Cowbell Video Fun Paper Friday This week it's a meaty subject! Cole, James. "Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic." Scientific reports 7 (2017): 44707. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

What's that in the sky? A bird? A plane? No, it's a scary looking cloud! Find out what it was this week! Flammagenitus (with great chart at the bottom) Australia Pyrocumulus Kelvin Helmholtz Instability Lenticular Cloud Wired Article on Morning Glories Nacreous Clouds Noctilucent Clouds Arcus Clouds Mammatus Clouds Fun Paper Friday Hart, Vlastimil, et al. "Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field." Frontiers in zoology 10.1 (2013): 80. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin