Don't Panic Geocast

John is installing his weather station and Shannon is still pushing through finals week. On this week’s show we talk about a listener question regarding fulgurites. Can you petrify lightning and st…

• John’s Hackaday Prize Entry
• New Prince Rupert’s Drop Video
• We Martians - Esker Questions
• Episode 92 - Martian Esker Fun Paper

• Structure of the Earth
• Pitch Drop Experiment Summary
• P…

Drones are everywhere, but did you know you can recreate 3D point clouds with images taken from your drone?

• Episode 73 – “A gigapan from 1906”
• Open Drone Map
• Web ODM
• Example Data
• Hackaday Web ODM
• O…

Shannon takes one more field trip and John is ready to hit the road again, but we slow down to talk about metamorphic rocks - and probably get in trouble with the geochemists again.

• Fried Pies

John is off teaching a workshop and Shannon is working towards the end of the semester. We take a little time off to talk about academic service - what is it and why do we do it? Being an academic is…

What is “flyover country”? Is it the states in the middle of the US? A band name? A geoscience education app? One of these is true and the creator joins us to chat about it. A big thank you to listen…

• Pi-Hole
• MagicMirror
• Embedded.fm
• Making Embedded Systems
• Bullet vs. Prince Rupert’s Drop

• Wikipedia article
• Norman Bowen
• Geoman Article on Bowen’s Series
• Goldich dissolution …

Bombogenesis

• Stella’s Bombogenesis
• Explosive cyclogenesis
• Rossby Waves
• Smarter Every Day : Prince Rupert’s Drop
• GEMPAK
• Bergen School of Meteorology
• Norwegian Cyclone Model
• Trough
• Sanders, Frederic…

John and Shannon both had windstorms this week and decided it was a great chance to talk about strange thermodynamics. Also halloween costumes and popcorn. Don’t miss this week’s mountain winds show!

This week we tackle a listener requested show - the transportable array! Join us as Robert Bubsy joins us to talk about managing the project.

• Robert Busby
• Wyoming telescope
• Judah…

Lauren and Dave Heerschap

• Real Science Innovations LLC
• Rule of V’s Blocks
• Brunton Axis
• Video of Axis in Action
• Real Science Innovations YouTube Channel

• Did mountains growing make…

• John is defending his dissertation, so he prepares by describing it to you!
• Meseum of Osteology
• XKCD Thesis Defense
• Origin of the Thesis
• NZ Earthquake Lights
• Hydraulic Press Channel
• Biaxal deformat…

How many students will ever make a professional geologic map? Not many most likely. Is it still essential to learn? You bet! This week we discuss why and how it’s done.

• Episode 32
• Poc…

This week we take some time to discuss YOUR feedback.- and there’s a lot! Also, how can disks of ice start rotating spontaneously? Listen this week to find out!

• Capt. Richard Phillips
• Joe…

This week Jay Minton stops by to tell us about working at some of the largest boy scout camps around and all of the planning that goes into nature trails. Shannon brings us another fun paper from BMJ…

This week, John is moving and Shannon is getting started with the semester, but we take a break to talk about Devil’s Tower, why Shannon has to play with her food, and if we can swim faster in syrup!

Listener Graeme asked us why rocks are hard. We explore the simple and hard explanations and then tackle the science of the perfect Martini in this week’s show!

• Whinstone
• Mohs Sca…

This week we talk about academia. How does it work? The career track is long and has many twists and turns. There are also a lot of jobs many people never think about. And what is this elusive colloq…

John and Shannon ring in the new year talking about native science and Enchanted Rock State Park. Why are the rocks enchanted and what can we learn from the native stories?

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John made it back from San Francisco and Shannon is getting her new laptop setup. This week we took a break to talk about electron backscatter in scanning electron microscopes and think about what ca…