Don't Panic Geocast

This week we address a listener show request from Mike about the Driftless region and address the phenomena of Pokemon Go. Can it improve our spatial reasoning? Cliff Clavin Example Driftless Region Geologic timescale reference Milankovitch cycles Laurentide Ice Sheet Post Glacial Rebound Wisconsin Glaciation Episode 51 – “Regelation. I think I had that for lunch the other day” Glaciers Episode 68 – “It’s kind of magical down there” Kiya Riverman Loess Glacial Till Glacial Advances Map Topography Map Baraboo Range Fun Paper Friday What are the effects of Pokemon Go on our social interactions and spatial reasoning? The Psychology of ‘Pokemon Go’: What’s Fueling the Obsession? Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

Having just got back from vacationing near a river, Shannon’s mind is wondering (and wandering!) about dams and their impacts, both good and bad. People use dams for electricity, recreation, flood control, and a myriad of other things. Let’s take a look at some huge dams and what they do to both communities and rivers. Oroville (1968) is the tallest in the US, and earthen dam in CA 770’ high Hoover (1935) is next at 726’ high on the border of AZ and NV Tallest dam in the world is Jingping-I dam (2013) in China is 1000’ high Largest reservoir in the US is Lake Mead, which holds 29 million acre-feet of water Glen Canyon dam Lake Powell on the AZ/UT border, and is a close second at 26 million acre-feet capacity. Colorado River WPA Why build dams at all? Water supply Irrigation and flood control Power supply Recreation Hydroelectric Power Hoover dam generates 4.5 billion kw-hr per year, serving 8 million people in AZ, southern CA and NV Itaipu dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay, dams the Parana River, the 7th largest in the world. Penstock Fun Paper Friday Borgonie, G., et al. “Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa.” Nature communications 6 (2015). Contest Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember…nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone! Contact us Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - SWUNG Slack - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Forecasting the weather is tricky business. You need a lot of information. While surface observations can get us a lot of data, we still need information about what is happening far into the atmosphere to make meaningful models and predictions. Thats where weather balloons come in. This week we talk about how upper air observation works as well as Jupiter’s atmosphere on Fun Paper Friday! Weather balloons Pilot Balloons Real Time Sounding Data Hodograph Skew-T Tephigram Stuve diagram High altitude research balloons Near space hobbyists NOAA Radiosonde Fact Sheet GPS occultation to measure atmospheric profiles NOAA Weather Balloon History Weird Al - EBay (YouTube) Contest Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember…nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone! John’s Example Lymerick The stress the fault is feeling Built up by plates never healing Energy release is due Too much strain cannot accrue The rock will soon be yielding Fun Paper Friday Why is Jupiter so hot? Turns out we didn’t know until recently. O’Donoghue, J., Moore, L., Stallard, T. S., & Melin, H. (n.d.). Heating of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. Nature Communications, advance online publication SP - EP . http://doi.org/10.1038/nature18940 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 discuss the anniversary of the first manned lunar landing and how a software glitch puts over 40,000 brain studies at risk. Apollo 11 Apollo 11 Neat landing visualization with audio Crew: Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong Code on GitHub Lunar Module Code Walkthrough (Video) Saturn V Graphic XKCD - up-goer 5 Easy reading of Apollo 11 events Digital Apollo The Dish (movie) Fun Paper Friday Eklund, Anders, Thomas E. Nichols, and Hans Knutsson. “Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016): 201602413. SciPy 2015 Colormaps Contest Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket.” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone and thank you Chris! Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

British Geological Survey Hackathon SciPy 2016 A few SciPy talks Modeling Rate and State Friction with Python | SciPy 2016 | John Leeman Working towards all the Geophysics, but Backwards | SciPy 2016 | Rowan Cockett Using Open Source Tools to Refactor Geoscience Education | SciPy 2016 | Lindsey Heagy MONTE Python for Deep Space Navigation | SciPy 2016 | Jonathon Smith Reproducible, One Button Workflows with the Jupyter Notebook & Scons | SciPy 2016 | Jessica Hamrick Feedback Nature Podcast Episode Contest Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember…nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket.” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone and thank you Chris! Fun Paper Friday Interference puts satellite data at risk Contact us Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week a massive landslide took place in Alaska. Join us to discuss it, Jupiter’s wife, and electric eels on a geo-news episode! July 7, 2016 Oklahoma Heat Bursts AGU Landslide Blog Article Gizmodo Article on the landslide Phys.org Article Landslide Dynamics Juno reaches Jupiter Fun Paper Friday Electric eels are creepy, but did you know that they can jump out of the water to better shock intruders? Neither did eel scientists! Catania, Kenneth C. “Leaping eels electrify threats, supporting Humboldt’s account of a battle with horses.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016): 201604009. Eel experiment videos Eeliad Project Summary Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

What’s your favorite formation? It’s like asking a geologist what their favorite book is. Find out what Shannon has to say about the Fountain formation and then we connect it to metal music. Book Club! Fountain Formation Red Rocks Amphitheatre Flatirons Ancestral Rocky Mountains John McPhee Fun Paper Friday What are the risks of headbanging to music? Would you believe there is a paper about it? Patton, Declan, and Andrew McIntosh. “Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass.” (2008): a2825. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week we talk about how academic papers get published and all the strange things they go through before you read them. Shannon also found us a fascinating fun paper about trees sleeping. Feedback Video of SF before and after the earthquake Publishing Open Access Publishing Episode 25 – “Scientists studying scientists” with Dr. Elizabeth Seiver Fun Paper Friday Do trees sleep? The answer may surprise you. And LASERS! Live Science Article Puttonen, Eetu, et al. “Quantification of overnight movement of birch (Betula pendula) branches and foliage with short interval terrestrial laser scanning.” Frontiers in plant science 7 (2016). Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

This week we talk about how one very famous aerial photograph was taken and how it relates to one of the most devastating earthquakes of the last century. Feedback An Introduction to the Use of Generalized Coordinates in Mechanics and Physics by William Elwood Byerly Berg Wind (Wikipedia) Berg Wind (AMS) The most famous kite based photograph 1906 Earthquake (USGS) George R. Lawrence Alton Limited locomotive Interactive and zoomable photo Scott Haefner SF 100 Years Later Scott Haefner Photography How the photo was taken How the camera position was determined Fun Paper Friday Zink, Katherine D., and Daniel E. Lieberman. “Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans.” Nature(2016). Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Shannon has been feeling the effects of topography, temperature, and field weather conditions. This week we link geology and meteorology talking about Orographic lift and other made up words. Alvin Orographic Lift Anabatic wind Stoss Adiabatic Processes Atmospheric Lapse Rates Foehn Wind Katabatic Wind Chinook winds in Oklahoma Lenticular clouds Chinook Arch Rain Shadow Fun Paper Friday Swearing could make it hurt less, unless you’re a sailor… Stephens, Richard, and Claudia Umland. “Swearing as a response to pain—Effect of daily swearing frequency.” The Journal of Pain 12.12 (2011): 1274–1281. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin