Don't Panic Geocast

Join our chat with Dr. Kasey Aderhold of IRIS this week as we talk about Alaskan earthquakes, the transportable array, and more! We also feature the shortest seismological abstract on record!

• Falcon Heavy Test Flight

Kasey Aderhold

• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
• M7.9 Event Page
• DART Buoy Network
• Strike Slip Faults
• IRIS Ground Motion Visualization
• @kaseyaderhold
• Kasey’s Website

Fun Paper Friday

• What’s the shortest abstract possible you ask? This week we look at a paper by @SeismoSue that wins the title and discusses the possible connection between earthquakes and tides!
• Hough, Susan E. “Do Large (Magnitude? 8) Global Earthquakes Occur on Preferred Days of the Calendar Year or Lunar Cycle?.” Seismological Research Letters (2018).

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John and Shannon tackle a listener question about Zircon and then discuss the possibility of flying a drone on Titan. Shannon also ponders how long to wait for late students on field trips.

• Silicate Minerals
• Nesosilicates
• Brilliance, Luster, and Fire
• Mohs Scale
• Zircon
• Zonation
• Uranium-Lead Dating
• Laser Ablation
• Detrital zircon geochronology
• Tishomingo Granite
• Jack Hills Zircon

Fun Paper Friday

• Drones on Titan from one of our favorite authors! Thanks to listener Jonathan for sending this our way.
• Lorenz, R.D. et al., Dragonfly: A Rotorcraft Lander Concept for Scientific Exploration at Tital. Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest. 2017.

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John has been off at the American Meteorlogical Society Meeting and Shannon was in the field, so we discuss what we’ve been up to, some exciting announcements, and how fast the grim reaper walks. Don’t miss this week’s show!

• Spacepod 116

AMS Meeting

• AMS 98th Annual Meeting
• Anemoment
• FT Technologies

Field Work

• Lake Mohave
• Magnetostratigraphy
• Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale
• Safe use of HF

Fun Paper Friday

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This week Dan Zietlow and Ryan Vachon join us to talk about outreach, scientific video making, and Dan Rather’s chat at AGU.

Outreach

• Email: breaknsci@gmail.com
• YouTube Breaking Science
• Facebook Breaking Science
• @breaknsci
• Ryan’s Book – Science Videos

Fun Paper Friday

• In a time of difficult communication and news, Dan Rather offered words of inspiration and vision at the AGU Annual Meeting.
• Dan Rather’s Vision for Scientists in an Era of “Fake News”

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Join us as Dr. Helen Janiszewski discusses the recent Deleware earthquake, subduction, and hurricanes!

Dr. Helen Janiszewski

• Helen’s Website
• @helenjanisz
• USGS Earthquake Page
• Cascadia Initiative

Fun Paper Friday

• When it rains, it pours? and the Earth sinks.
• Montanari, S. (2017), Weight of water dropped by Hurricane Harvey flexed Earth’s crust, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO089015. Published on 14 December 2017.

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This week we reflect on our past goals and set some new ones for 2018 and the path to show 200!

John

• Grow my business with the addition of two products
• See some of Colorado
• Read 15 Books
• Go Paperless for our personal and business records
• Get Back to theBlog/Newsletter (Sign up!)
• Write another proposal
• Learn more about web-app development
• Try swift programming
• Grow our audience more!
• Release more great and more timely content

Shannon

• Declutter life!
• Read 25 books (at least 5 non-fiction!)
• Get back to bike riding
• Submit this manuscript or quit my job!
• Submit another proposal
• Be prepared for field camp at least 2 months out
• Clean-up my workspace
• Have manuals for all the devices
• Field Camp Blog!
• Complete person and lab webpages
• Incorporate tech in the classroom
• Learn to edit the shoe
• Start a Don’t Panic! Instagram page

Fun Paper Friday

• Teens and rats apparently have the same drinking habits. Find out how on this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
• Hargreaves, Garth A., et al. “Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats.” Alcohol 43.4 (2009): 305?314.

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• Bill’s Trail Library
• Vibrations and Waves (A.P. French)

Waves Part 2

• Superposition Principle
• Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
• JPG Compression

Fun Paper Friday

• Thanks to listener Darryl for sending in this fun paper about the number of toys and quality of play in toddlers.
• Dauch, Carly, et al. “The influence of the number of toys in the environment on toddlers’ play.” Infant Behavior and Development 50 (2018): 78?87.

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This week we tackle a tough listener question about waves. What are they and how can we understand and use them? Find out on this week’s show!

• Don’t Panic Tee Shirts!

Waves

• Complex numbers
• Wave properties illustrated (BBC)
• Engineer Guy Microwave Video

Fun Paper Friday

• Does your dog give you puppy eyes? Learn more about that expression and scientific expression coding in this week’s fun paper friday!
• Kaminski, Juliane, et al. “Human attention affects facial expressions in domestic dogs.” Scientific Reports 7.1 (2017): 12914.

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• HP15C App
• Pythonista 3

Earth ArXiV

• Dr. Chris Jackson
• Dr. Tom Narock
• SHERPA/RoMEO
• EarthArXiv

Fun Paper Friday

• This week we give you an excuse to eat chocolate and win a Nobel.
• “Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates,” Fanz H. Messerli, M.D.
• Spurious Correlations

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This week we keep chatting about what computational devices we want to carry and what our recommendations are.

• Apple Smart Keyboard
• Apple Pencil
• Microsoft Surface

Fun Paper Friday

• Have you ever been in a mosh pit? One of us has, and we discuss this model of mosh pit activity in this week’s Fun Paper Friday!
• Huff Post Article
• Silverberg, Jesse L., et al. “Collective motion of humans in mosh and circle pits at heavy metal concerts.” Physical Review Letters 110.22 (2013): 228701.
• Interactive Simulator

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