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Drones are everywhere, but did you know you can recreate 3D point clouds with images taken from your drone? Episode 73 – “A gigapan from 1906” Open Drone Map Web ODM Example Data Hackaday Web ODM Open SFM Mapillary Missing Maps Pixhawk Flight Controller Cannon S110 Cannon S120 Cannon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) Zanzibar Mapping Initiative Fun Paper Friday Can Batman fly like in Batman Begins? John hasn’t seen the film, but physics comes to the rescue. Marshall, David, et al. “A2_9 Trajectory of a falling Batman.” Physics Special Topics 10.1 (2011). Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Shannon takes one more field trip and John is ready to hit the road again, but we slow down to talk about metamorphic rocks - and probably get in trouble with the geochemists again. Fried Pies Metamorphic Rocks Metamorphic rock Pictures of metamorphic rocks Griggs apparatus Pole figures Example LPO paper Metamorphic facies Fun Paper Friday Listener Darryl send in this fun paper with a glowing review. Science Magazine Article Belkin, Shimshon, et al. “Remote detection of buried landmines using a bacterial sensor.” Nature Biotechnology 35.4 (2017): 308–310. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

John is off teaching a workshop and Shannon is working towards the end of the semester. We take a little time off to talk about academic service - what is it and why do we do it? Being an academic isn’t all fun and games! Feedback SEM time is expensive! BMJ’s Goofy Christmas Papers Academic Service Three horsemen: teaching, research, and service Manuscript Reviewers How Professors Spend Their Time Fun Paper Friday Walk like a chicken? A dinosaur? Find out how chickens doing the dino dance are giving us insight into theropod locomotion! Grossi, Bruno, et al. “Walking like dinosaurs: chickens with artificial tails provide clues about non-avian theropod locomotion.” PloS one 9.2 (2014): e88458. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

What is “flyover country”? Is it the states in the middle of the US? A band name? A geoscience education app? One of these is true and the creator joins us to chat about it. A big thank you to listener Gary for pointing us to this topic! Feedback Automatic bullseye moving dartboard Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion Shane Loeffler Flyover Country App Macrostrat LacCore Lab Neotoma paleoecology database System for earth sample registration (SESAR) Earthcube EAGER grants Glacial erratics Fun Paper Friday This week we talk about a one of a kind recording of a single-couple seismic source. Thanks for the suggestion Taryn Black! Cassidy, John F., and Art Whitford. “Unusual “Love Waves” Recorded Above the Cascadia Subduction Zone.” Seismological Research Letters 67.6 (1996): 49–51. Scientific American Article  

Pi-Hole MagicMirror Embedded.fm Making Embedded Systems Bullet vs. Prince Rupert’s Drop Bowen’s Reaction Series Wikipedia article Norman Bowen Geoman Article on Bowen’s Series Goldich dissolution series Gibb’s Free Energy Fun Paper Friday Can open table reservations be used to help determine how bad the flu is? Nsoesie, Elaine O., David L. Buckeridge, and John S. Brownstein. “Guess who’s not coming to dinner? Evaluating online restaurant reservations for disease surveillance.” Journal of medical Internet research 16.1 (2014): e22. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Bombogenesis Stella’s Bombogenesis Explosive cyclogenesis Rossby Waves Smarter Every Day : Prince Rupert’s Drop GEMPAK Bergen School of Meteorology Norwegian Cyclone Model Trough Sanders, Frederick, and John R. Gyakum. “Synoptic-dynamic climatology of the “bomb”.” Monthly Weather Review 108.10 (1980): 1589–1606. Fun Paper Friday Freezing water can explode? Yep! Find out how in this week’s fun paper friday! Live Science Summary w/ Video Wildeman, Sander, et al. “Fast Dynamics of Water Droplets Freezing from the Outside In.” Physical Review Letters 118.8 (2017): 084101. Sessile drop (contact angle) technique Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

John and Shannon both had windstorms this week and decided it was a great chance to talk about strange thermodynamics. Also halloween costumes and popcorn. Don’t miss this week’s mountain winds show! Mountain Winds Chinook Wind Adiabatic Process Lapse Rate Mountain waves Bora winds John’s UPS “Balloon Service" Chinook and Walla Walla brothers Fun Paper Friday Virot, Emmanuel, and Alexandre Ponomarenko. “Popcorn: critical temperature, jump and sound.” Journal of The Royal Society Interface 12.104 (2015): 20141247. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

This week we tackle a listener requested show - the transportable array! Join us as Robert Bubsy joins us to talk about managing the project. Transportable Array Robert Busby Wyoming telescope Judah Levine Sea ice data Depoloyment Timeline Tracking Hurricane Matthew with seismic noise Ground motion visualization Fun Paper Friday Mortimer, Nick, et al. “Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent.” GSA Today 27.3 (2017). Nature Summary Article Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Lauren and Dave Heerschap Real Science Innovations LLC Rule of V’s Blocks Brunton Axis Video of Axis in Action Real Science Innovations YouTube Channel Fun Paper Friday Did mountains growing make our brains bigger? Explore this tongue in cheek paper on the geo-cranial relation. Get ready for a good chuckle! Molnar, Peter. “The rise of mountain ranges and the evolution of humans: a causal relation?.” Irish journal of earth sciences (1990): 199–207. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

John is defending his dissertation, so he prepares by describing it to you! Meseum of Osteology XKCD Thesis Defense Origin of the Thesis NZ Earthquake Lights Hydraulic Press Channel Biaxal deformation press Fun Paper Friday How can we understand the brain? Is a processor the same thing? This study examines the classic 6502. Economist Column Jonas, Eric, and Konrad Paul Kording. “Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?.” PLOS Computational Biology 13.1 (2017): e1005268. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin