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PODCAST

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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All Episodes

26:57

Episode 24 - "Are you staying with Doc Brown?"

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2015/07/03

John is on the road headed to the SciPy conference and Shannon is done with field camp. Join us to hear the wrap up and talk about how geology was used strategically in the Revolutionary War on this fourth of July weekend episode. Watchung Mountains Area geologic summary Middlebrook encampment Nike Missile Cheyenne Mountain NORAD Fun Paper Friday This week we learn about perchlorate from fireworks and how long it can reside in lakes. Wilkin, R. T., Fine, D. D., & Burnett, N. G. (2007)

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29:00

Episode 23 - "If there's one glacial feature,...

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2015/06/26

This week Shannon summarizes her field trip and John talks about rock slides and his coming travel. We also talk about organized patterns of dripping syrup. John will be at the SciPy Conference Tropical Storm Bill has caused a lot of problems! Oklahoma Rock Slide Turner Falls John’s 3D Compass Shannon found a unique use for her field notes notebooks Rocky Mountain National Park Glacial Moraine Cirques Paternoster Lakes Sheep Mountain Anticline Yellowstone National Park Grand Tetons National Park OU

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25:41

Episode 22 - "It was like two Volkswagens Battling"...

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2015/06/19

Join us this week as we talk about our favorite national parks while Shannon is on the road. Then we’ll talk about kinetic energy of empty and full beer bottles as part of Fun Paper Friday! Glacier National Park Heads up display for snowplows Book: Geology of National Parks Belt Supergroup Arches National Park Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey Arch Collapses Canyonalnds National Park Upheaval Dome Fun Paper Friday Have you ever thought about how much force a beer bottle can exert when you strike

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22:18

Episode 21 - "Think of an anticline, that's what...

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2015/06/12

This week we catch up with Shannon’s field adventure and John’s poster and pitch competition. Sheep Mountain Anticline Grand Teton National Park John participated in a 2 minute pitch contest as part of Millennium Cafe. PPG Industries sponsored the event and it was a great success! Fun Paper Friday What’s the best use for an onion? To make artificial muscles of course! Chen, C.-C., Shih, W.-P., Chang, P.-Z., Lai, H.-M., Chang, S.-Y., Huang, P.-C., & Jeng, H.-A. (2015). Onion artificial muscles

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25:06

Episode 20 - "It was like 1.5 Cores plus a Twister"...

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2015/06/05

This week we talk more about your field photos, the movie San Andreas, mining country in Colorado, and chocolate blooming! Your Photos! Last week we talked about the Manefay Slide instead of the Jordan slide that Mark sent photos of. Sorry Mark! Hannah and Martin’s Photos Siccar Point Old Red Sandstone Hutton’s Unconformity How a geologist sees the world San Andreas Ok movie, lots of bad science Talks about earthquake triggering! Also does a good job with duck and cover examples Check out the

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19:46

Episode 19 - "The whole office is batteries"

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2015/05/29

TOPCON GPS Instruments Listener Mark sent in field photos from the Bingham Canyon Mine Checkout Mark’s Images Jordan Slide Some general RADAR information Greenwood Furnace State Park Blast Furnace Basics LightSail Mission Fun Paper Friday This week we learn about pressure. Pressure has to be generated for Penguins to poo outside of thier nest. How much pressure? We know the answer! Meyer-Rochow, V. B., & Gal, J. (2003). Pressures produced when penguins pooh?calculations on avian defaecation. Polar

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26:51

Episode 18 - "I remember having to buy a sweatshirt"...

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2015/05/22

This week Shannon talks about the cold weather at field camp, we discuss the Jacob’s staff, and methane rain. You’ll want to listen to this fun summer short! Jacob’s Staff Canon City, Colorado Pike’s Peak Gold Rush Field Camp Fun Paper Friday What could cause dunes on Titan to migrate opposite the surface winds? Turns out the answer is a story about deep convection and storms with methane rain! Charnay, B., Barth, E., Rafkin, S., Narteau, C., Lebonnois, S., Rodriguez, S., et al. (2015). Methane

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50:41

Episode 17 - "What's your summer manifesto?"

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2015/05/15

Summer is an ideal time to learn new things and explore new ideas. This week we discuss what we want to learn over the summer and how we are going to accomplish these goals. What’s your summer manifesto? Also we get showered by cosmic rays and lightning as part of #FunPaperFriday. John’s Summer Manifesto Learn Swift programming language for mobile computing development Lynda.com Books Having a project is essential to learning a programming language. Develop classroom materials to go with some

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Episode 16 - "We are scared" Nature Calls

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2015/05/08

This week John and Shannon discuss going outside and how important it is to our learning processes. Are we suffering from “nature deficit disorder”? We follow up the discussion with a #FunPaperFriday about playing outside. Last Child in the Woods by Louv The Nature Principle by Louv Richard Louv Website How to Raise a Wild Child by Sampson raiseawildchild.com Free Range Kids Kids Need Nature as Much as Nature Needs Them The Nature Conservancy Fun Paper Friday Dyment, Janet E. “Green school grounds

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42:45

Episode 15 - "If it didn't, that seismometer probably...

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2015/05/01

This week we are joined by a guest co-host in Shannon’s absence. Matt Herman talks to us about the recent earthquake in Nepal. We had to record in an empty classroom, so sorry about the audio quality. We’ll be back to our normal location and setup next week! Earthquake USGS Event Page Plate Map PAGER Report John’s Ground Motion Movie Everest Avalanche Movie Matt uses INSAR and GPS to look at static displacements. USArray Ground Motion Visualizations Coulomb Stress Geologic

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59:54

Episode 14 - "I basically need a holodeck"

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2015/04/24

Taking notes is an essential part of your job, no matter what you do. This week we discuss note taking strategies, supplies, and how we work. Also don’t miss out on a sticky #FunPaperFriday! John’s Storm Time Lapse Midichloria mitochonreii Note Taking Systems Don’t bother with highlighting, underlining, re-reading, etc. Those have been shown to be ineffective. (Dunlosky et al., 2013) Bullet Journal Outlining Cornell Method Sketch Notes. There is a book and workbook by Mike Rohde available to help

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Episode 13 - "One of my best friends is a poet"...

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2015/04/17

This week we are joined by paleontologist Dr. Phoebe Cohen (@PhoebeFossil) from Williams. She studies microscopic single-cell fossils from before there were animals. Undergrad at Cornell, wanting to be in biology… landed in earth system science Strongly influenced by the book “Life on a young planet” Grad school at Harvard 1/2 post-doc, 1/2 education-outreach at MIT Gigapan Photography Cambridge Science Festival The Story Collider Podcast Phoebe’s TEDed video Useful

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Episode 12 - "You want to filter out the ducks" Tides

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2015/04/10

Tides pull and deform the surface of the ocean and the surface of the Earth. This week we’ll take a quick tour of tidal forces, address some show feedback, and then talk about a revision on a classic physics problem. Tides Tides are a result of gravitational interaction of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, but are of course a factor on many other planets as well. Gravity is the key to remember and that it varies linearly with mass, but with the inverse square of displacement. Ocean Tides The most

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40:56

Episode 11 - "It was windy"

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2015/04/03

This week we talk about another branch of earth science, meteorology. We discuss the upcoming severe weather season and Shannon’s close call with a tornadic storm. Also updates on past stories, feedback, and fun paper friday! Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability The Brunt Väisälä frequency Story Updates and Feedback Nasa has decided to go with the boulder snatch technique for an asteroid mission launching in 2020 If you like space news and talk, checkout “The Orbital

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58:33

Episode 10 - "I've been everywhere man"

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2015/03/27

We’ve both been on the road recently and decided to cut together a show to share our travels with you. This week Shannon will take us into the field in NM with her students, and John will take us to Lamont for a seismology student workshop. Shannon’s Trip Shannon took her mapping class to the field for a mapping exercise. Her trip went far better than imagined. Palo Duro Canyon “The Grand Canyon of Texas" Field Guide for NM Site A surprising number of student’s hadn’t been camping before, but the

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54:15

Episode 9 - "There's an app for that"

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2015/03/20

This week we thought it would be a good idea to recap some of the apps that we use on a daily basis to get our work done. We want to explicitly state that we are fully unsponsored and that these are just our opinions, not official recommendations or endorsements We chose iPhone/iPad apps since that’s what we and many of our colleagues use. A lot of these are transferrable to the Android or other platforms. Don’t tune out or you’ll miss some tips that will help you, no matter what the platform you

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42:00

Episode 8 - "Canal Side Geologist" Making Maps

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2015/03/13

What is a geologic map? Conveys many sorts of geologic information The whole basis of field geology Can be a surface,bedrock, subsurface, resource, soil, etc. map Making the Map Start off with your field gear…like we talked about in episode 2. We said episode 1 in the show, but that was wrong! Have a base map (Geomorphologic map—we call these topos)…you need to know where you are at You can use an iPad/GPS with pre-loaded topo maps, or you just have your paper basemap. John likes the Garmin 62S

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32:56

Episode 7 - "We don't have ancient Greeks on other...

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2015/03/06

This week we talk about how sciences can weight a planet, discuss gravity, and the explosion of a military weather satellite while in orbit. Weather Satellite Explodes Ways to Measure Planetary Mass Geometric (size and density), this doesn’t always work well By triangulation and measurement of orbits of natural or artificial satellites. Gravity All stems from Newton’s Law of Gravitation. Which is really a controversy between Newton and Hooke. Gravitational constant based on the Cavendish torsion

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54:39

Episode 6 - "What if you calibrated your candles...

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2015/02/27

Time is a very complex subject that you can devote your entire life to. Today we’ll cover a few of the basics and enough to get your interest up! We’ll see that it’s difficult to know what a second is and how long relative times are, but absolute time is even messier! We also discuss dried coffee and tetris! Importance of Time (and why it’s on a geology show) It synchronizes the world and our human interactions (need minutes - hours accuracy generally) It allows us to talk about events in a common

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Episode 5 - "We actually don't call it the Tertiary...

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2015/02/20

This week we discuss the geologic time scale, meteorites, and fitness trackers! Pittsburgh Fireball Feb. 17, 2015 Video of meteor Article with details of entry Animation from meteor’s perspective NASA Fireball Network Geologic Time-it’s really big (and deep) The geologic time scale Despite all kinds of fun things to demo how vast it is…still hard to understand Cosmic Calendar Pneumonic devices for timescale-and why do we need to know it? (several examples) We make all kinds of assumptions about

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