

Don't Panic Geocast
John Leeman and Shannon Dulin
John Leeman and Shannon Dulin discuss geoscience and technology weekly for your enjoyment! Features include guests, fun paper Friday selections, product reviews, and banter about recent developments. Shannon is a field geologist who tolerates technology and John is a self-proclaimed nerd that tolerates geologists.
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Jul 23, 2016 • 32min
Episode 78 - "Just trying to narrow down the issue" Apollo 11
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

Jul 15, 2016 • 30min
Episode 77 - "It's Swedish Fish day" SciPy 2016
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

Jul 8, 2016 • 23min
Episode 76 - "You can't runaway in an oxbow lake"
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

Jul 1, 2016 • 29min
Episode 75 - "It tells you where they like to vacation"
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

Jun 24, 2016 • 34min
Episode 74 - "You pay $5000, then leave"
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

Jun 18, 2016 • 27min
Episode 73 - "A gigapan from 1906"
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

Jun 10, 2016 • 25min
Episode 72 - "I have a lot of words"
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

Jun 3, 2016 • 43min
Episode 71 - "My New MacBook" Summer Manifestos
This week we kick off summer shorts with our 2016 summer manifestos and talk about a relieving #FunPaperFriday. Shannon’s Manifesto Work (again) on my first proposal Work with grad students on their projects High School Geoscience Academy Publish Dissertation Papers Setup a webpage Master the Mac John’s Manifesto Begin to tie together dissertation document Make a web application Get my General Class Ham License Prepare for my first class Fun Paper Friday Yang, P. J., Pham, J., Choo, J., & Hu, D. L. (2014). Duration of urination does not change with body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(33), 11932–11937. Tracker Software Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

May 31, 2016 • 40sec
Announcement - Book Club!
Hey everyone! We've teamed up with The Orbital Mechanics to start a book club. Head over to theorbitalmechanics.com/bookclub and vote for what we should read together.

May 27, 2016 • 1h 6min
Episode 70 - "Lake Bottom Seismometers" Natalie Accardo
This week we interview guest Natalie Accardo to learn about various seismic projects and lake bottom seismometers! We then pack pears with a behavioral #FunPaperFriday. Natalie’s website East African Rift system Lake Malawi SEGMeNT project 99% Invisible Podcast - Reefer Madness Airgun Test (Highspeed - YouTube) Evernote SUGAR Project Fun Paper Friday Chang, Tom, and Tal Gross. “How many pears would a pear packer pack if a pear packer could pack pears at quasi-exogenously varying piece rates?.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 99 (2014): 1–17. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin