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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

Fun Paper Friday

• Are there environmentally conscious aliens out there? Find out in this week’s fun paper!
• Montet, Benjamin, and Ryan Loomis. “SET-E: The Search for Extraterrestrial Environmentalism.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09428 (2016).

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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

Fun Paper Friday

• Thanks to Darryl for bringing us this harrowing flight related fun paper!
• AAIB Bulliten S1-2020

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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.

Fun Paper Friday

• Pressure is on to find a new way to sterilize medical tools. Find out what household appliance is helping!
• Swenson, Vaille A., et al. “Assessment and verification of commercially available pressure cookers for laboratory sterilization.” PloS one 13.12 (2018).

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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

Fun Paper Friday

• You look older – were you an elected official?
• Olenski, Andrew R., Matthew V. Abola, and Anupam B. Jena. “Do heads of government age more quickly? Observational study comparing mortality between elected leaders and runners-up in national elections of 17 countries.” bmj 351 (2015): h6424.

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

Fun Paper Friday

• Which type of doctor speeds the most? (Well, medical doctors that is.) Find out in this week’s Fun Paper!
• Zimerman, André, et al. “The need for speed: observational study of physician driving behaviors.” bmj 367 (2019).

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

Fun Paper Friday

• What’s special about 33?
• Booker, Andrew R. “Cracking the problem with 33.” Research in Number Theory 5.3 (2019): 26.

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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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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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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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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

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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