Don't Panic Geocast

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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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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What is “flyover country”? Is it the states in the middle of the US? A band name? A geoscience education app? One of these is true and the creator joins us to chat about it. A big thank you to listener Gary for pointing us to this topic!

Feedback

• Automatic bullseye moving dartboard
• Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion

Shane Loeffler

• Flyover Country App
• Macrostrat
• LacCore Lab
• Neotoma paleoecology database
• System for earth sample registration (SESAR)
• Earthcube
• EAGER grants
• Glacial erratics

Fun Paper Friday

• This week we talk about a one of a kind recording of a single-couple seismic source. Thanks for the suggestion Taryn Black!
• Cassidy, John F., and Art Whitford. “Unusual “Love Waves” Recorded Above the Cascadia Subduction Zone.” Seismological Research Letters 67.6 (1996): 49?51.
• Scientific American Article

 

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• Pi-Hole
• MagicMirror
• Embedded.fm
• Making Embedded Systems
• Bullet vs. Prince Rupert’s Drop

Bowen’s Reaction Series

• Wikipedia article
• Norman Bowen
• Geoman Article on Bowen’s Series
• Goldich dissolution series
• Gibb’s Free Energy

Fun Paper Friday

• Can open table reservations be used to help determine how bad the flu is?
• Nsoesie, Elaine O., David L. Buckeridge, and John S. Brownstein. “Guess who’s not coming to dinner? Evaluating online restaurant reservations for disease surveillance.” Journal of medical Internet research 16.1 (2014): e22.

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Bombogenesis

• Stella’s Bombogenesis
• Explosive cyclogenesis
• Rossby Waves
• Smarter Every Day : Prince Rupert’s Drop
• GEMPAK
• Bergen School of Meteorology
• Norwegian Cyclone Model
• Trough
• Sanders, Frederick, and John R. Gyakum. “Synoptic-dynamic climatology of the “bomb”.” Monthly Weather Review 108.10 (1980): 1589?1606.

Fun Paper Friday

• Freezing water can explode? Yep! Find out how in this week’s fun paper friday!
• Live Science Summary w/ Video
• Wildeman, Sander, et al. “Fast Dynamics of Water Droplets Freezing from the Outside In.” Physical Review Letters 118.8 (2017): 084101.
• Sessile drop (contact angle) technique

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John and Shannon both had windstorms this week and decided it was a great chance to talk about strange thermodynamics. Also halloween costumes and popcorn. Don’t miss this week’s mountain winds show!

Mountain Winds

• Chinook Wind
• Adiabatic Process
• Lapse Rate
• Mountain waves
• Bora winds
• John’s UPS “Balloon Service”
• Chinook and Walla Walla brothers

Fun Paper Friday

• Virot, Emmanuel, and Alexandre Ponomarenko. “Popcorn: critical temperature, jump and sound.” Journal of The Royal Society Interface 12.104 (2015): 20141247.

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This week we tackle a listener requested show – the transportable array! Join us as Robert Bubsy joins us to talk about managing the project.

Transportable Array

• Robert Busby
• Wyoming telescope
• Judah Levine
• Sea ice data
• Depoloyment Timeline
• Tracking Hurricane Matthew with seismic noise
• Ground motion visualization

Fun Paper Friday

• Mortimer, Nick, et al. “Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent.” GSA Today 27.3 (2017).
• Nature Summary Article

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Lauren and Dave Heerschap

• Real Science Innovations LLC
• Rule of V’s Blocks
• Brunton Axis
• Video of Axis in Action
• Real Science Innovations YouTube Channel

Fun Paper Friday

• Did mountains growing make our brains bigger? Explore this tongue in cheek paper on the geo-cranial relation. Get ready for a good chuckle!
• Molnar, Peter. “The rise of mountain ranges and the evolution of humans: a causal relation?.” Irish journal of earth sciences (1990): 199?207.

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• John is defending his dissertation, so he prepares by describing it to you!
• Meseum of Osteology
• XKCD Thesis Defense
• Origin of the Thesis
• NZ Earthquake Lights
• Hydraulic Press Channel
• Biaxal deformation press

Fun Paper Friday

• How can we understand the brain? Is a processor the same thing? This study examines the classic 6502.
• Economist Column
• Jonas, Eric, and Konrad Paul Kording. “Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?.” PLOS Computational Biology 13.1 (2017): e1005268.

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