Don't Panic Geocast

John Leeman and Shannon Dulin
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Oct 21, 2016 • 53min

Episode 91 – “I've seen buoys before” Hurricanes Part 2

John and Shannon are fighting lab equipment, but they take a break to continue their discussion of hurricanes. This week we talk about how we measure hurricanes - from airplanes to buoys. Hurricane Hunters Reporter Flys with the Hunters (YouTube) 403rd Wing Homepage NOAA Hurricane Hunters Homepage AT–6 Texan WC–130 WP–3D Gulfstream IV Storm Chasers Book (David Toomey) Instruments Dropsonde Driftsonde National Data Buoy Center Weather Buoy John’s Article on Tsunami Buoy Data Weather Ship Guabancex Fun Paper Friday This week’s fun paper is all about woodpeckers, how their eyes stay in their skulls, their skull structure, and other fascinating adaptations to handle literally beating their heads into a wall. Schwab, Ivan R. “Cure for a headache.” British Journal of Ophthalmology 86.8 (2002): 843–843. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  
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Oct 14, 2016 • 54min

Episode 90 - "It's like a big straw" Hurricanes Part 1

We’ve had a fairly active hurricane season, so we thought that maybe now would be a good time to discuss what exactly a hurricane is, especially for those of us non-coastal dwellers who maybe don’t think about them as much as say…tornadoes! National Hurricane Center Hurricane Structure Storm Surge Hurricane FAQ Typhoon Tip Hurricane Patricia NHC Hurricane Patricia Report Hurricane Wilma 1900 Galveston Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Andrew Hurricane Sandy Saffir-Simpson Scale Fun Paper Friday Bantoft, Christina, et al. “Effect of Standing or Walking at a Workstation on Cognitive Function A Randomized Counterbalanced Trial.” Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58.1 (2016): 140–149. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  
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Oct 7, 2016 • 47min

Episode 89 - "I had lunch with some ghostbusters" Maker Faire

John visits Maker Faire and Shannon found another paper about video games to answer questions we raised last week. Maker Faire Glank Ono Smartphone 3D printer Glowforge Referral Link! Beagle Bone OSHPark See Me CNC Aleph Objects   Chipsetter Shaper Origin Wazer Tormach Fun Paper Friday Greitemeyer, Tobias, and Dirk O. Mügge. “Video games do affect social outcomes a meta-analytic review of the effects of violent and prosocial video game play.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2014): 0146167213520459. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin
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Sep 30, 2016 • 37min

Episode 88 - "Helene is made of mayo" GSA 2016

Shannon has been at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver and John is about to head off to Maker Faire. Join us to hear about the latest in geology and a fun paper we almost chickened out on. GSA Meeting 2016 Charon Helene Bingham Material Fun Paper Friday Who knew there was so much work on human-chicken relationships? Apparently listener Steve did! Fothergill, B.T. and Flick, C. 2015. The ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games: the origins of the digital chicken. Computers and Society - Special Issue on Ethicomp 45 (3) 100–108 Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  
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Sep 23, 2016 • 50min

Episode 87 - "Dr. Lagomorph" Happy Birthday NPS

Feedback Babylon 5 Effects John was on Embedded.fm this week! Big year for NPS Lots of press about NPS turning 100 this year Every Kid in a Park NPS Timeline Yellowstone Antiquities Act Organic Act Shannon’s top picks Crater Lake National Park Glacier National Park John’s top picks Arches National Park Canyon Lands National Park Fun Paper Friday All of your selfies can help the national parks understand visitor patterns and determine what attractions are the most popular at each site. Sessions, Carrie, et al. “Measuring recreational visitation at US National Parks with crowd-sourced photographs.” Journal of Environmental Management (2016). Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  
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Sep 16, 2016 • 1h 3min

Episode 86 - "There's all kinds of terror" Laura Wallace

This week we take it slow. Laura Wallace joins us to talk plate tectonics and slow slip in New Zealand. Also a project that gets the best acronym of the year award. Laura Wallace Laura’s UTIG Page phys.org article on HOBBITS EOS (from AGU) Article HOBITSS Science Paper “Slow Earthquakes are a Thing (Smithsonian Magazine) Fun Paper Friday The David is one of the most famous sculptures in the world, but will rock failure ultimately bring him down? What’s the Achilles’ heel for David? David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue Corti, Giacomo, et al. “Modelling the failure mechanisms of Michelangelo’s David through small-scale centrifuge experiments.” Journal of Cultural Heritage 16.1 (2015): 26–31. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  
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Sep 10, 2016 • 39min

Episode 85 - "Please buy tickets to Oklahoma today"

Earthquake! Last week Oklahoma was rocked by the largest recorded earthquake recorded in the state’s history. We talk with Dr. Katie Keranen who is in the field deploying seismic instruments to study the event. Sorry for the audio quality this week - we were recoding the interview as a phone call since Dr. Keranen was in the field and there are occasional dropouts. Ground Motion Videos Particle motion video in Tulsa Particle motion video in Arkansas IRIS Ground Motion Video Other Links Did you feel it? Seismic Nodes Aftershocks Fun Paper Friday Ray tracing is a technique that we use is seismology, but also in computer graphics. Join us for this hilarious paper about ray tracing in Jell-O! Heckbert, Paul S. “Ray tracing Jell-O brand gelatin.” Communications of the ACM 31.2 (1988): 131–134. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  
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Sep 2, 2016 • 28min

Episode 84 - "It might be too soon" (The Limerock Challenge)

A few weeks ago we finished collecting all of your limericks in our contest to win some sweet geo-swag from Chris at Taylor Custom. This week we are joined by special guest Katie Shearer to announce the winners and read more of our favorites! If you didn’t win, don’t fret, we are working with Chris on a top secret project and will be running another contest soon! Fun Paper Friday Sneezes and coughs turn out to be a treasure trove of fluid dynamics effects and import for disease spread. In this paper we explore the gross side of multiphase turbulent flow (snot) research. Scharfman, B. E., et al. “Visualization of sneeze ejecta: steps of fluid fragmentation leading to respiratory droplets.” Experiments in Fluids 57.2 (2016): 1–9. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  
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Aug 26, 2016 • 53min

Episode 83 - "Out of the country" (Brad Jolliff Rebroadcast)

We are teaching and traveling with the start of the semester. Since John has no solid cell phone signal at a conference in New Hampshire and Shannon is swimming in lecturing, we wanted to share one of our favorite interviews from this year! This week a special guest takes us to the moon by talking about lunar rocks and meteorites! The moon turns out to be a fascinating place, but probably won’t break up like in Seveneves. Brad’s Website Jim Papike Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Mars Exploration Rovers Apollo Lunar Rocks and Soils Collection Impact Basin Geology South Pole-Aitken Basin Yutu Rover Electron Microprobe Armalcolite (mineral) IDL ENVI Software ISIS Software ArcGIS ACT Zoomable Lunar Map Fun Paper Friday “Age Rules” from PSRD Borg, L. E., Gaffney, A. M., and Shearer, C. K. (2015) A Review of Lunar Chronology Revealing a Preponderance of 4.34–4.37 Ga Ages, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, v. 50, p. 715–732, doi: 10.1111/maps.12373. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  
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Aug 19, 2016 • 52min

Episode 82 - "What Summer?"

Classes start next week - it’s time to evaluate what we did over the summer. How did our summer manifestos work out and what are we going to accomplish this fall? Defcon Seismometer Hack Seismo Live Techniques of Experimental Geoscience Webpage Spaceballs Combination Scene John’s Fall Goals Figure out my future job Finish up a couple of instrumentation projects Assemble my dissertation Don’t let this class kill me Shannon’s Fall Goals Look for my replacement for Evernote Actually look at my to-do better next time list for classes Read all the literature! Submit a manuscript Have fun with my new class…geology of extreme climates Limericks We are setting up a time to record with our judge, it may be a week or two, but hang in there. If you want to send in an audio recording of you performing your limerick, that would be awesome. Don’t forget - we have STICKERS! Fun Paper Friday Andrade, Marco AB, Anne L. Bernassau, and Julio C. Adamowski. “Acoustic levitation of a large solid sphere.” Applied Physics Letters 109.4 (2016): 044101. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

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