Explore every episode of the podcast Don't Panic Geocast
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| Episode 395 - "Pressure Finds a Way" | 23 Aug 2024 | 00:39:47 | |
Learn about the explosion at Yellowstone's Biscuit Basin site and what it means for the park. We also talk about drunk fruit flies and what they are teaching us about alcoholism. Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 394 - "Gates of Hell" Darvaza Gas Crater | 17 Aug 2024 | 00:43:52 | |
This week we look at a geological oddity in Turkmenistan and see how getting a puppy can give you the blues. Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 385 - "Father Sky Goes Away" | 12 Apr 2024 | 00:51:01 | |
John and Shannon both traveled to see the great eclipse of 2024 and share their experiences this week as well as talk about one of those rare times when ice is not a mineral. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 295 - "Touch the rocks" | 03 Jul 2021 | 01:12:29 | |
Shannon is back from field camp (and another trip) and wants to talk about digital skills. Is field camp even necessary? Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 294 - "enormous catastrophe" | 19 Jun 2021 | 00:52:06 | |
Earthquake shaking is often described on a "felt like" scale known as the Mercalli intensity scale. This episode we delve into the confusing history of the scale and what it really means. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 293 - "Hot Hot Field Camp" Spontaneous Potential | 12 Jun 2021 | 00:36:46 | |
What is spontaneous potential? It's an inexpensive technique to learn even more about the porosity, composition, and permeability of rock and soil. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 292 - "Magic Math Stick" | 29 May 2021 | 01:06:41 | |
This was supposed to be a show on Spontaneous Potential, but we'll get to that next week! We have a potpourri of things to cover and hope you'll enjoy our derailed train! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 291 - "Haven't you seen Dante's Peak?" | 22 May 2021 | 00:53:15 | |
Mt. St. Helens was a huge event in 1980. This week, 41 years later, we discuss the events leading up to the eruption and what happened! Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin ?! | |||
| Episode 290 - "COAL!" | 15 May 2021 | 00:50:57 | |
This week it's all about coal - what is it, where did it form, and how do we use it! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 289 - "Soil Teapot" | 01 May 2021 | 00:38:49 | |
How do geysers work? Learn more this week! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 288 - "95% Chance of Chert" Mineral Identification | 16 Apr 2021 | 00:50:33 | |
How do you identify a mineral? We talk about our favorite ways to identify minerals! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 287 - "Cartoonist in Word Form" Gary McManus | 10 Apr 2021 | 00:55:57 | |
Gary McManus joins us to talk about state climatology and extremes in Oklahoma! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 286 - "Big Sandbox for Adults" Maciej Obryk, Kate Allstadt, Thomas Rapstine | 03 Apr 2021 | 01:08:55 | |
Thanks to Dr. Maciej Obryk, Dr. Kate Allstadt, and Dr. Thomas Rapstine for joining us to talk about the USGS experimental flume! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 384 - "Glaciers caused the great lakes, now we have them, the end" Alexis Dahl | 05 Apr 2024 | 00:57:44 | |
This week we interview YouTube science creator, science writer, and communicator Alexis Dahl to learn about the rocks of Michigan's UP and how scientists can do a better job of sharing what they do. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 285 - "We're not going to tell you how to make it" Geology Field Kit | 26 Mar 2021 | 01:03:46 | |
Field Kit
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| Episode 284 - "Dijon or Yellow" Geomajik Box | 20 Mar 2021 | 00:58:13 | |
What's in the box?
What happens when no AI research can be reproduced? Any angry site to shame those authors! Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 283 - "There are spectrograms" | 07 Mar 2021 | 00:48:30 | |
This week we talk about flow regimes in streams, more bedforms, and then wrap it up with a discussion of what crocodiles sound like after breathing helium! Fun Paper FridayThanks to listener Teresa for this week's fun paper! Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 282 - "Antidunes" | 02 Mar 2021 | 00:51:51 | |
This week we talk all about sediment bedforms and everyone's favorite - antidunes!
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| Episode 281 - "Bill's over there chewing on his buddy" The Cambrian Explosion | 28 Feb 2021 | 00:48:25 | |
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
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| Episode 280 - "Red sky in the morning" Weather Proverbs | 13 Feb 2021 | 00:54:12 | |
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
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| Episode 279 - "They forgot how to walk" Teaching Field in a Ballroom | 01 Feb 2021 | 00:54:23 | |
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
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| Episode 278 - "Millimillidarcy" Permeability | 26 Jan 2021 | 00:57:51 | |
This week it's all about permeability - how water flows through rocks! Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 277 - "Water holding the rock" Porosity | 11 Jan 2021 | 00:52:51 | |
This week we talk about porosity - or what all of the empty space in a rock is and why it is important.
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| Episode 276 - Goodbye 2020 | 02 Jan 2021 | 01:23:14 | |
This week we show 2020 out the door with our 2021 resolutions and yearly planning show! John
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| Episode 383 - "Logarithmically Fades Away" | 29 Mar 2024 | 00:46:26 | |
This week we see how scientists break down the Earth into 7 or more spheres and why that is and isn't a good idea. We also explore a fun paper about graphene that is just full of crap. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 275 - "Should we just start with maniacal laughter?" | 25 Dec 2020 | 00:16:46 | |
This week we update you on the 2020 status and that we'll be back in 2021! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 274 - "Haboobs" | 05 Dec 2020 | 00:31:20 | |
This week we talk about dust storms or haboobs and why they occur. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 273 - "Very special ways to pick people up" Capt. Jeff Grass | 28 Nov 2020 | 00:56:43 | |
This week Capt. Jeff Grass talks to us about being prepared for natural disasters! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 272 - "Adiabatic Bog" | 07 Nov 2020 | 00:52:00 | |
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
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| Episode 271 - "Guess Again Dummy" Ryan May | 31 Oct 2020 | 01:32:53 | |
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! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 270 - "Why God made the evening shift" Steve Piltz | 26 Oct 2020 | 01:11:27 | |
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
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| Episode 269 - "I thought about something totally different" Playas | 16 Oct 2020 | 00:44:05 | |
This week John and Shannon agree to talk about playas, only to discover that they think about very different things. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 268 - "A Horta?" Machine Learning | 11 Oct 2020 | 00:54:56 | |
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
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| Episode 267 - "It's digital, you turn it with your hands" Analog Experiments | 28 Sep 2020 | 00:55:38 | |
This week we talk about analog experiments, what they are, and how you can do them! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 266 - "That's why they repaint runways" Earth's Magnetic Field | 19 Sep 2020 | 00:52:15 | |
How did the Earth get its magnetic field? Why do we still have it? Find out that and more this week! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 382 - "A world without attenuation would be unbearably noisy" | 16 Mar 2024 | 00:46:00 | |
What can we get from mining the moon? Should we? Who can do it? Why should we do it? That and more in this week's show! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 265 - "Cold Air Bulldozer" | 13 Sep 2020 | 00:42:42 | |
This week we talk about fronts and the warm air conveyor belt! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 264 - "Travel Brochure for Antarctica" | 29 Aug 2020 | 01:01:29 | |
This week we talk about why we go to Antarctica and what kinds of work happens there each year! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 263 - "Hurricanitic" Iowa Derecho | 23 Aug 2020 | 00:49:10 | |
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! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 262 - "My Teddy Bear and Rosary" | 15 Aug 2020 | 01:09:32 | |
This week we interview Shannon about her career path to becoming a dual degree student and professor in geology! Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 261 - "Pele Searches for a Home" | 08 Aug 2020 | 00:52:44 | |
Hot spots - what are they? We don't know either! Explore with us on this week's show. Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 260 - "Highly elliptic" Comet NEOWISE | 26 Jul 2020 | 00:46:57 | |
Comet NEOWISE is in the sky - learn all about it and comets in general! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 259 - "Discoveries from the massive funding of the department of defense" | 18 Jul 2020 | 00:51:03 | |
This week we learn how searching for a downed aircraft may have helped us better understand how plate tectonics work... we think... maybe. It's not an exact science. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 258 - "You need a trained geologist" | 10 Jul 2020 | 00:51:53 | |
This week we talk about why we don't believe that a rock ID app is a possibility now or potentially ever. Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 257 - "And, you know" | 04 Jul 2020 | 00:34:49 | |
This week it's all about rainbows, light, reflection, refraction, and how it's just like an earthquake! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 256 - "We Don't Know What We're Doing" Episode 0 MST3000 | 28 Jun 2020 | 00:52:53 | |
This week we Mystery Science Theater 3000 our own Episode 0 to celebrate the 8-bit rollover of our show! | |||
| Episode 381 - "Desk Sedimentology" | 08 Mar 2024 | 00:50:12 | |
This week we talk about new national parks, sticky notes, and empirical evidence about fly fishing. Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 255 - "Reddish Orange" with Stacey Evans | 13 Jun 2020 | 00:56:51 | |
This week we learn what life is like as a state geologist with Stacey Evans and how fish fart. Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||
| Episode 254 - "Continental Condensation Nuclei" Yosemite | 07 Jun 2020 | 00:50:32 | |
This week we explore the geology of Yosemite and how continents are built! Fun Paper Friday
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| Episode 253 - "Googling Under the Table" | 30 May 2020 | 00:55:56 | |
This week we have guest John Leeman? That's right! Shannon wants to know why John took the path he did and how her students can find their own. We're also buzzing about this great un-beeelievable fun paper. Fun Paper Friday Contact us:Show John Leeman Shannon Dulin | |||