Don't Panic Geocast

Forecasting the weather is tricky business. You need a lot of information. While surface observations can get us a lot of data, we still need information about what is happening far into the atmosphe…

This week we discuss the anniversary of the first manned lunar landing and how a software glitch puts over 40,000 brain studies at risk.

• Apollo 11
• Neat landing visualization with audio
• Cre…

• British Geological Survey Hackathon
• SciPy 2016

• Modeling Rate and State Friction with Python | SciPy 2016 | John Leeman
• Working towards all the Geophysics, but Backwards | SciPy…

This week a massive landslide took place in Alaska. Join us to discuss it, Jupiter’s wife, and electric eels on a geo-news episode!

• July 7, 2016 Oklahoma Heat Bursts
• AGU Landslide Blog Article
• Giz…

What’s your favorite formation? It’s like asking a geologist what their favorite book is. Find out what Shannon has to say about the Fountain formation and then we connect it to metal music.

• Book Cl…

This week we talk about how academic papers get published and all the strange things they go through before you read them. Shannon also found us a fascinating fun paper about trees sleeping.

This week we talk about how one very famous aerial photograph was taken and how it relates to one of the most devastating earthquakes of the last century.

• An Introduction to the Use of Gen…

Shannon has been feeling the effects of topography, temperature, and field weather conditions. This week we link geology and meteorology talking about Orographic lift and other made up words.

• Alvin
• …

This week we kick off summer shorts with our 2016 summer manifestos and talk about a relieving #FunPaperFriday.

• Work (again) on my first proposal
• Work with grad students on their…

This week we interview guest Natalie Accardo to learn about various seismic projects and lake bottom seismometers! We then pack pears with a behavioral #FunPaperFriday.

• Natalie’s website
• East Africa…

It’s raining. A lot. This week we talk about how we measure precipitation. We then discuss how beetles use stars to navigate in this week’s Fun Paper Friday.

• Korean Cheugugi
• Tippin…

This week we interview Kiya Riverman about crawling around in caves… underneath a glacier! Join us to learn about glacial hydrology and what it’s like being inside the glacier.

• Kiya’s Website
• Into t…

We’re back! On this surprise Tuesday show we talk with the hosts of Undersampled Radio.

• Pomeroy Rock Drill
• Matt Hall (@kwinkunks)
• Graham Ganssle (@GrahamGanssle)
• Undersampled Radio (iTunes)

Cont…

This week we talk about all the wonderful feedback we’ve been getting, plus about how rocks can bend and break. We then tie it all up by talking about material properties of wood and how staining a v…

• Katy’s Website
• Effective Computation in Physics
• Physics Codes Seminar Git Page
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Software Carpentry
• The Most Dangerous Writing App
• Katy’s SciPy Lightning Talk
• Jean Bahr

Fun Paper F…

This week join us for our own alphabet aerobics as we fly through the geologic alphabet!

• John’s Deines Lecture

• A - Anticline

• B - Breccia

• C - Coulomb Failure

• D - Dikes

• E - Earthquake

• F …

We spend a lot of time working with our hands, in fact that’s why we can do science at all. It’s shocking the amount of science ignorance and lack of skill floating around. This got us wondering we a…

This week we talk about Hot Springs, the geologic feature and the town in Arkansas. Shannon is going there to visit and have students map the town’s complex geology and see the hot waters. We also sc…

This week we catchup on feedback and news, discuss ship naming conventions, and learn about an old gravity experiment! What do the Apollo missions and a Scottish mountain have in common? Listen to fi…