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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.

• Fans - hot or n…

This week we talk about why we don't believe that a rock ID app is a possibility now or potentially ever.

• How do you convert human years to dog years? Turns out it is a bit more com…

This week it's all about rainbows, light, reflection, refraction, and how it's just like an earthquake!

• Have you seen products marketed as "chemical free"? This weeks paper looks at…

This week we learn what life is like as a state geologist with Stacey Evans and how fish fart.

• How do fish fart? Why?
• Wilson, Ben, Robert S. Batty, and Lawrence M. Dill. "Pacific a…

This week we explore the geology of Yosemite and how continents are built!

• Think dad jokes are bad? Try professor jokes! But do they work?
• Wandersee, James H. "Humor as a teaching …

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…

You'd think we'd know what caused a big hole in the ground, but we don't. Learn why upheaval dome remains a mystery in this week's show!

• Upheaval Dome
• ASU Virtual Field Trip

• Are t…

This week Shannon walks us through how she's planning to teach students field geology online and talks about the pains of learning to delegate in the field.

• Thinglink
• Solocator

• Th…

This week we delve into the hot world of radiometric methods in geophysics. Find out how gamma rays help us find natural resources and why radioactive materials are concentrated in certain formations…

This week up look upward to the stars! Learn about stellar classification and how it is important to a geologist!

• Glowy Earthquakes
• Crazy Walls
• H-R Diagrams

• You look older - were…

This week we get palinspastic! Find out how geologists can "unfold" time and reconstruct what past landscapes looked like from a geologic cross-section!

• Which type of doctor speeds …

What's it like to be told you need to teach field geology online? This week we talk about distance learning in higher-ed.

• What's special about 33?
• Booker, Andrew R. "Cracking the pr…

It's time to finish our ABC's! Also we discuss things of a fecal culinary nature on Fun Paper Friday!

N - Neap tide

O - Ophiolite

P - Placer Deposit

Q - Quadrangle

R - Rating Curve

S - Seamount

T - T…

This week we learn the ABC's again! It's time for another geology ABC's series with some great new words to learn. Join us for part one of this two part series.

• Brucks, Désirée, an…

This week we talk about stress, strain, and how they are different!

• See how to get data from natural drones and download it via USBee in this week's Fun Paper!
• Iyer, Vikram, et al. …

This week we interview Dr. Eric Kelsey about winter precipitation and his ventures into open-source hardware!

• Dr. Kelsey's Plymouth Page
• Mt. Washington Observatory

• Weimerskirch,…

This week Dr.Alison Nugent joins us to talk about giant cloud condensation nuclei and life as an assistant professor of atmospheric science in Hawaii.

• Alison's Website
• Facebook: @Dr.AlisonNugent
• Ins…

This week we talk about rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow in the follow up to the winter storm that hit the plains this week. Why do these occur? Find out!

• Neuroskeptic. "The nin…

This week it's all about aquifers and how they work! Water does not sit in lakes underground, but truth is stranger than fiction.

• Upper, Dennis. "The unsuccessful self-treatment of …