Don't Panic Geocast

John and Shannon are back to doing science instead of troubleshooting and take a break to talk with Dr. Greg Wilson about Software Carpentry, how to teach effectively, and a smattering of related top…

This week Gene Cooper from GigaMacro joins us to talk about gigapan imaging, robotics, and how to really capture your samples!

• GigaMacro
• GigaPan
• GigaMacro Twitter
• GigaMacro Gallery

John and Shannon discuss this week’s Mw 7.1 Earthquake in Mexico and talk about the rheology of cats.

• Mw 7.1 Event
• Mw 8.1 Event
• 1985 Mexico City Mw 8.0
• Lake Texcoco
• Tuned Mass Damper in…

• Lynn Soreghan
• Paleozoic
• Loess
• Greenhouse vs. Icehouse
• Snowball Earth

• Is your fitness tracker lying to you? An undergraduate researcher investigated several sleep trackers and com…

This week John and Shannon talk about hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the physics of heat engines, and determining authorship order!

• Harvey
• Irma
• Carnot engine
• Hurricane hunters
• Storm chasers …

This week Dr. Eric Bruning (@deeplycloudy) joins us to talk about locating lightning, the lightning process, and space based lightning instruments. Don’t miss this week’s electrifying show!

• Dr. Brun…

Millions looked up to see this week’s solar eclipse. We talk about the eclipse and how it has played a role in human and scientific history.

• Algorithms to live by
• Solid angle
• 2017 Solar Eclipse (NAS…

This week Scott Dubowsky joins us to talk about plasma and ball lightning. We then dive into the economic theory of intersteller trad with another listener fun paper friday!

• Scott’s Webpage
• McCall R…

John and Shannon address a listener question from Mike and then talk about where to find intelligent life.

• MetPy Mondays #1

• Episode 18 - Titan Dunes Fun Paper
• Carolina Bays (Wikiped…

This week Chris Taylor joins us to talk about making scientifically accurate gifts. We also learn how ants can modify the world around us.

• Rachio

• Taylor Custom
• Chris’ Comic Book
• Ant C…

John is on the mobile device spirit quest again, Shannon graduated a student, and we both took a break to talk about transform faults. We also learned that they are very complicated!

John just got back from SciPy and updates us on the state of scientific Python.

• Ryan and John’s talk on units
• John’s poster
• Katy Huff’s Keynote
• Sean Gulick’s Keynote
• nbgrader - Jess Hamr…

• SciPy Abstracts
• Convergent Plate Boundaries
• Metamorphic Rocks
• Episode 55 (Plate Tectonics)
• Episode 116 - Metamorphic Rocks
• Critical Taper Theory

• Are Sea Pickles just Sea Cucumbers…

• Boaty McBoatface Article

• Basin and Range formation (YouTube)
• Divergent plate boundary
• Pillow basalt
• Gabbro
• Aulacogen
• East African Rift

• Thanks to listen…

This week it’s hot… so hot that some airplanes cannot takeoff. We talk about atmospheric density and density altitude, as well as look into some histograms of what’s in your bellybutton!

• Tropical S…

Shannon is back and we take some time to go over your feedback. Our email inbox was clogged all week, but should be running now, so get your sticker requests in!

• Embedded.fm 200th Episode
• FPF List
• J…

This week, we mix things up a bit. This joint show between Embedded.fm and the geocast explores what happens when electrical engineering meets geoscience in cold places. We’re joined by guest Dr. Sri…

This week Shannon pops a surprise interview on John, asking all about open source. We talk about what it is, why people do it, and what it means for your cat videos. We round out the show talking abo…

This week Dr. Uri ten Brink joins us to talk about his field experiences as an observational geophysicst and some thoughts about being a scientist. (Sorry, no fun paper this week - we were not able t…

Shannon just had a baby! We take the week off and celebrate with this classic episode of the geocast... Don't Panic, we'll be back next week!

Having just got back from vacationing near a river, Shann…