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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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Episode 282 - "Antidunes"

Don"t Panic Geocast ·

2021/03/02

This week we talk all about sediment bedforms and everyone's favorite - antidunes! Watch John's Flume Experiments from 11 years ago Froude Number Fun Paper Friday Smarandache, Florentin. Funny Problems. Infinite Study, 2000. 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

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48:25

Episode 281 - "Bill's over there chewing on his...

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2021/02/28

When and why did life diversify? This week we go WAY BACK to the Cambrian and hang out with hungry worms and trilobites to discover what happened. Fun Paper Friday Did you know that Wombats poop cubes? Now you do! Yang, Patricia J., et al. "Intestines of non-uniform stiffness mold the corners of wombat feces." Soft Matter (2021). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman

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54:12

Episode 280 - "Red sky in the morning" Weather Proverbs

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2021/02/13

This week we look at the origins and science behind common weather proverbs, discuss the weather forecast rock found in every southern craft fair, and then play some video games! Fun Paper Friday Can playing video games teach us about volcanoes? Should it? McGowan, Edward G., and Jazmin P. Scarlett. "Volcanoes in video games: the portrayal of volcanoes in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) video games and their learning potential." Geoscience Communication 4.1 (2021): 11-31. Contact us: Show Support

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54:23

Episode 279 - "They forgot how to walk" Teaching...

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2021/02/01

Shannon is teaching intro to field inside a ballroom and we grapple with what field skills students need in the real world. Fun Paper Friday Cats go wild over catnip - but why? Lichman, Benjamin R., et al. "The evolutionary origins of the cat attractant nepetalactone in catnip." Science Advances 6.20 (2020): eaba0721. Sciencemag Article Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com

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57:51

Episode 278 - "Millimillidarcy" Permeability

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2021/01/26

This week it's all about permeability - how water flows through rocks! Fun Paper Friday Yam, Kai Chi, et al. "Association of high profile football matches in Europe with traffic accidents in Asia: archival study." bmj 371 (2020). 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

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52:51

Episode 277 - "Water holding the rock" Porosity

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2021/01/11

This week we talk about porosity - or what all of the empty space in a rock is and why it is important. Primary Porosity Secondary Porosity Fracture Porosity Vuggy Porosity Effective/Open Porosity Ineffective/Closed Porosity Dual Porosity Macroporosity Mesoporosity Microporosity Fun Paper Friday Hungry? Eat the same thing as others at the table to gain their trust! Woolley, Kaitlin, and Ayelet Fishbach. "A recipe for friendship: Similar food consumption promotes trust and cooperation." Journal

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1:23:14

Episode 276 - Goodbye 2020

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2021/01/02

This week we show 2020 out the door with our 2021 resolutions and yearly planning show! John be more decisive and reactive but in a good way less reflection on made decisions more forward focus work on something and focus get out of team task tracking get back into GTD, especially 2 min rule learn to fly leadership at work Shannon Didn't put her resolutions in the show notes! (Email her!) Fun Paper Friday In our first ever revisit - we come back to a new way to classify minerals. Cleland, Carol

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16:46

Episode 275 - "Should we just start with maniacal...

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2020/12/25

This week we update you on the 2020 status and that we'll be back in 2021! Fun Paper Friday We start our first ever two part fun paper! https://phys.org/news/2020-12-scientists-philosopher-team-categorize-minerals.html 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

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Episode 274 - "Haboobs"

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2020/12/05

This week we talk about dust storms or haboobs and why they occur. Haboob Fun Paper Friday What's a monotreme? We take a biology 101 refresher and discover that the platypus was glow in the dark with this week's fun paper! Anich, P. S., Anthony, S., Carlson, M., Gunnelson, A., Kohler, A. M., Martin, J. G., & Olson, E. R. (2020). Biofluorescence in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Mammalia, 1(ahead-of-print). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack

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56:43

Episode 273 - "Very special ways to pick people up"...

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2020/11/28

This week Capt. Jeff Grass talks to us about being prepared for natural disasters! Fun Paper Friday Can a can of Coke make solar cells more efficient? Wang, Rui, et al. "Caffeine improves the performance and thermal stability of perovskite solar cells." Joule 3.6 (2019): 1464-1477. 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

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52:00

Episode 272 - "Adiabatic Bog"

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2020/11/07

This week we talk about how conferences have adapted to covid, why John is building hands on learning tools, and about nutrient exchange in bogs for meat eating plants! Fun Paper Friday Carnivorous plants just eat flies right? Think again! Moldowan, Patrick D., et al. "Nature's pitfall trap: salamanders as rich prey for carnivorous plants in a nutrient‐poor northern bog ecosystem." Ecology 100.10 (2019): e02770. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack

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1:32:53

Episode 271 - "Guess Again Dummy" Ryan May

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2020/10/31

This week Dr. Ryan May joins us to talk about life as a scientific software developer and his career path from radars to radiosondes and more! Ryan's Twitter Unidata Fun Paper Friday Vampires - a classic predator prey problem? Hartl, Richard F., Alexander Mehlmann, and Andreas Novak. "Cycles of fear: periodic bloodsucking rates for vampires." Journal of optimization theory and applications 75.3 (1992): 559-568. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack

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1:11:27

Episode 270 - "Why God made the evening shift" Steve...

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2020/10/26

This week National Weather Service Tulsa WFO Meteorologist In Charge Steve Piltz joins us to talk about a career in the weather service and finding unique ways to solve forecast problems! Fun Paper Friday Do ants count their steps to get home? Wittlinger, Matthias, Rüdiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf. "The ant odometer: stepping on stilts and stumps." science 312.5782 (2006): 1965-1967. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo

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44:05

Episode 269 - "I thought about something totally...

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2020/10/16

This week John and Shannon agree to talk about playas, only to discover that they think about very different things. Fun Paper Friday Man eating deer? Looks like it! Meckel, Lauren A., Chloe P. McDaneld, and Daniel J. Wescott. "White‐tailed deer as a taphonomic agent: photographic evidence of white‐tailed deer gnawing on human bone." Journal of forensic sciences 63.1 (2018): 292-294. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo

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Episode 268 - "A Horta?" Machine Learning

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2020/10/11

This week we talk about machine learning - what is it exactly and how can we leverage it as geologists? Will it be as useful as the horta? Fun Paper Friday How do we know about Earth's past climate? Well, here are a few unusual ideas! Five Weird Climate Archives 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

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Episode 267 - "It's digital, you turn it with your...

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2020/09/28

This week we talk about analog experiments, what they are, and how you can do them! Geologists' Squeeze Box Squeeze Box Core Tubes Fun Paper Friday This week we do the worm! Find out how worms dance on speakers in this week's Fun Paper! Maksymov, Ivan S., and Andrey Pototsky. "Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms." Scientific Reports 10.1 (2020): 1-11. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo

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Episode 266 - "That's why they repaint runways"...

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2020/09/19

How did the Earth get its magnetic field? Why do we still have it? Find out that and more this week! Chris Finlay's Research Fun Paper Friday Can animals sense earthquakes? Can we sense animals sensing earthquakes? Wikelski, Martin, et al. "Potential short-term earthquake forecasting by farm-animal monitoring." bioRxiv (2020). Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com -

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Episode 265 - "Cold Air Bulldozer"

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2020/09/13

This week we talk about fronts and the warm air conveyor belt! Fun Paper Friday Do you think you have a good sense of direction? Maybe it's the magnetite in your brain! Researchers put brains in a magnetometer to find out! Human Brains Have Tiny Bits of Magnetic Material 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

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Episode 264 - "Travel Brochure for Antarctica"

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2020/08/29

This week we talk about why we go to Antarctica and what kinds of work happens there each year! Fun Paper Friday What happens if you hold a cat in your dating profile photo? This important question answered by this week's fun paper! Kogan, Lori, and Shelly Volsche. "Not the Cat’s Meow? The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability." Animals 10.6 (2020): 1007. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo

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Episode 263 - "Hurricanitic" Iowa Derecho

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2020/08/23

This week we talk about derechos - what are they and why did one sweep across the upper midwest bringing wide spread distruction? Find out that and how sword swallowers do what they do in this week's show! NWS Derecho Page Fun Paper Friday How to sword swallowers do it? Do they ever get injured? We touch on this pointy topic with a fun paper! Witcombe, Brian, and Dan Meyer. "Sword swallowing and its side effects." Bmj 333.7582 (2006): 1285-1287. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon

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