Don't Panic Geocast

What happens when rivers meet oceans? All kinds of fun sedimentary processes that build deltas. Learn more this week along with a discussion of one man's favorite boulders. Fun Paper Friday Beaty, Chester B. "Great big boulders I have known." Geology 17.4 (1989): 349-352. 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 conglomerates. How do these sedimentary trash cans form and how can we classify them? Fun Paper Friday Turns out it may be difficult to estimate parasite population in poop, but that didn't stop this team! Krauth, Stefanie J., et al. "An in-depth analysis of a piece of s*@t: distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and hookworm eggs in human stool." PLoS neglected tropical diseases 6.12 (2012): e1969. 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

Last week Shannon was out in the field taking samples in the area of the Colorado River. This week we find out what she was doing and the history of that region. Fun Paper Friday We have policies on making your data available to journal readers, but are they effective? Stodden, Victoria, Jennifer Seiler, and Zhaokun Ma. "An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115.11 (2018): 2584-2589. 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 hot spots and Hawaii! Loihi Emperor Seamount Chain HUGO Fun Paper Friday Does removing something take more brain power than adding something? Adams, Gabrielle S., et al. "People systematically overlook subtractive changes." Nature 592.7853 (2021): 258-261. 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 would we be doing in an alternate universe? We explore careers we almost took and how they relate to things we talk about all the time. Fun Paper Friday Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass 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

LaTeX is a beautiful way to make documents, especially when they have lots of equations, tables, and more. This week we dive into how you too can talk TeX. Download MikTeX Fun Paper Friday Matsui, Takafumi, et al. "The manufacture and origin of the Tutankhamen meteoritic iron dagger." Meteoritics & Planetary Science (2022). ## 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

John and Shannon are tired of the wintery mix weather they've been getting, but at least now we understand what makes it! We also introduce the term "heated fellowship" and talk about if packs of wolves should be introduced to reduce road kill incidents. Fun Paper Friday Are wolves the solution to a deer problem? Raynor, Jennifer L., Corbett A. Grainger, and Dominic P. Parker. "Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.22 (2021). 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

The Hunga Tonga eruption is one of the largest eruptions observed with modern equipment. This week we'll dig into what happened, how it was observed, and what we think is next for the island chain. Fun Paper Friday In line with the show (for once!) we look at shock waves on Mars... or lack thereof. Fernando, Benjamin, et al. "Questions to Heaven." Astronomy & Geophysics 62.LA-UR-21-31668 (2021). 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 chemistry, not something we say often! We chat chemical weathering and exactly what all those ions mean. Fun Paper Friday Leibring, Katharina. "Names of companion animals: Rovers in the onomasticon?." 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow 25-29 Aug, 2014. Vol. 5. University of Glasgow, 2016. 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

Weathering is what breaks the Earth down so it can be recycled, this week we dive into the mechanical methods of weathering the surface. Fun Paper Friday What feedbacks can penguin poo have on glaciers? Wang, Peiyan, et al. "Combined effects of glacial retreat and penguin activity on soil greenhouse gas fluxes on South Georgia, sub-Antarctica." Science of The Total Environment 718 (2020): 135255. 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