Monthly Archives: April 2017

Drones are everywhere, but did you know you can recreate 3D point clouds with images taken from your drone?

• Episode 73 ? “A gigapan from 1906”
• Open Drone Map
• Web ODM
• Example Data
• Hackaday Web ODM
• Open SFM
• Mapillary
• Missing Maps
• Pixhawk Flight Controller
• Cannon S110
• Cannon S120
• Cannon Hack Development Kit (CHDK)
• Zanzibar Mapping Initiative

Fun Paper Friday

• Can Batman fly like in Batman Begins? John hasn’t seen the film, but physics comes to the rescue.
• Marshall, David, et al. “A2_9 Trajectory of a falling Batman.” Physics Special Topics 10.1 (2011).

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Shannon takes one more field trip and John is ready to hit the road again, but we slow down to talk about metamorphic rocks – and probably get in trouble with the geochemists again.

• Fried Pies

Metamorphic Rocks

• Metamorphic rock
• Pictures of metamorphic rocks
• Griggs apparatus
• Pole figures
• Example LPO paper
• Metamorphic facies

Fun Paper Friday

• Listener Darryl send in this fun paper with a glowing review.
• Science Magazine Article
• Belkin, Shimshon, et al. “Remote detection of buried landmines using a bacterial sensor.” Nature Biotechnology 35.4 (2017): 308?310.

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

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John is off teaching a workshop and Shannon is working towards the end of the semester. We take a little time off to talk about academic service – what is it and why do we do it? Being an academic isn’t all fun and games!

Feedback

• SEM time is expensive!
• BMJ’s Goofy Christmas Papers

Academic Service

• Three horsemen: teaching, research, and service
• Manuscript Reviewers
• How Professors Spend Their Time

Fun Paper Friday

• Walk like a chicken? A dinosaur? Find out how chickens doing the dino dance are giving us insight into theropod locomotion!
• Grossi, Bruno, et al. “Walking like dinosaurs: chickens with artificial tails provide clues about non-avian theropod locomotion.” PloS one 9.2 (2014): e88458.

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

John Leeman – www.johnrleeman.com – @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin – @ShannonDulin

 

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