Monthly Archives: May 2016

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 African Rift system
• Lake Malawi
• SEGMeNT project
• 99% Invisible Podcast – Reefer Madness
• Airgun Test (Highspeed – YouTube)
• Evernote
• SUGAR Project

Fun Paper Friday

Chang, Tom, and Tal Gross. “How many pears would a pear packer pack if a pear packer could pack pears at quasi-exogenously varying piece rates?.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 99 (2014)

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Show – www.dontpanicgeocast.com – @dontpanicgeo – show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman – www.johnrleeman.com – @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin – @ShannonDulin

 

New episode!

Its€’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.

Rain Measurement

• Korean Cheugugi
• Tipping bucket
• Standard Rain Gauge
• Pluviometer of intensities
• Weighing Rain Gauge
• Optical Rain Gauge
• IR Rain Sensor
• Acoustic Rain Gauge

Fun Paper Friday

• el Jundi, Basil, et al. “A Snapshot-Based Mechanism for Celestial Orientation.” Current Biology (2016).
• Washington Post Article
• Video of the Dung Beetle Dance

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Show – www.dontpanicgeocast.com – @dontpanicgeo – show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman – www.johnrleeman.com – @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin – @ShannonDulin

 

New episode!

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 the Belly of a Glacier – EOS
• Cave Surveying and Mapping
• Structure from motion
• Kinect Point Clouds
• Moulin
• Esker
• Saint-Venant Equation
• Navier-Stokes Equations
• University Centre in Svalbard

Fun Paper Friday

Chameleons, they have a reputation for blending in, but it turns out their tongues are amazing. They can release energy with accelerations of over 200 gs!

• Anderson, Christopher V. Off like a shot: scaling of ballistic tongue projection reveals extremely high performance in small chameleons.€ Scientific reports 6 (2016).

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Show – www.dontpanicgeocast.com – @dontpanicgeo – show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman – www.johnrleeman.com – @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin – @ShannonDulin

New episode!

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)

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Show – www.dontpanicgeocast.com – @dontpanicgeo –
show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman – www.johnrleeman.com – @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin – @ShannonDulin

New episode!