April 4, 2020 · 2:26 am

Episode 246 – “Zone of suspended water” ABCs Part 2

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 – Tidewater Glacier

U – Unconformity

V – Varve

W – Womble Shale

X – Xyloid Coal

Y-Yazoo Stream

Z – Zone of Aeration

Fun Paper Friday

This week… pooopknives.pdf!
Eren, Metin I., et al. “Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27 (2019): 102002.

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March 28, 2020 · 1:25 am

Episode 245 – “Floppy Clay-stone” ABCs Part 1

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.

A-Astrobleme

B – Bolide

C-Chalcedony

D – Deccan Traps

E-Esker

F – Fracture Toughness

G-Guyot

H – Halite

I-Indurated

J – Jökulhlaup

K-Karst

L – Laccolith

M-Molybdenite

Fun Paper Friday

Brucks, Désirée, and Auguste MP von Bayern. “Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards.” Current Biology (2020).

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March 20, 2020 · 11:37 pm

Episode 244 – “Stress, Strain, What’s the Difference?”

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

Fun Paper Friday

See how to get data from natural drones and download it via USBee in this week’s Fun Paper!
Iyer, Vikram, et al. “Living IoT: A flying wireless platform on live insects.” The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. 2019.

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March 2, 2020 · 3:24 am

Episode 243 – “I want four awesome seasons”

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

Fun Paper Friday

Weimerskirch, Henri, et al. “Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.6 (2020): 3006-3014.

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February 15, 2020 · 4:51 am

Episode 242 – “I’m a taxi driver for my students” Dr. Alison Nugent

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.

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Facebook: @Dr.AlisonNugent
Instagram: cloudyday24

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Hinners, Paige, Madison Thomas, and Young Jin Lee. “Determining fingerprint age with mass spectrometry imaging via ozonolysis of triacylglycerols.” Analytical Chemistry (2020).

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February 8, 2020 · 3:12 am

Episode 241 – “This circle is full of paleomagnetists”

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!