Don't Panic Geocast

It's not an exact science.

About the show

John Leeman and Shannon Dulin discuss geoscience and technology weekly for your enjoyment! Features include guests, fun paper Friday selections, product reviews, and banter about recent developments. Shannon is a field geologist who tolerates technology and John is a self-proclaimed nerd that tolerates geologists.

Episodes

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    Episode 396 - "Please Don't Call the FBI" GEARS 2024

    September 6th, 2024  |  53 mins 34 secs

    This week John and Shannon summarize the GEARS 2024 workshop, lessons learned, and talk about a record air pressure that was just a fluke.

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    Episode 395 - "Pressure Finds a Way"

    August 23rd, 2024  |  39 mins 47 secs

    Learn about the explosion at Yellowstone's Biscuit Basin site and what it means for the park. We also talk about drunk fruit flies and what they are teaching us about alcoholism.

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    Episode 394 - "Gates of Hell" Darvaza Gas Crater

    August 16th, 2024  |  43 mins 52 secs

    This week we look at a geological oddity in Turkmenistan and see how getting a puppy can give you the blues.

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    Episode 393 - "Fujiwhara Effect!" Twisters Movie Review

    July 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 10 mins

    We went to watch Twisters and review it from the standpoint of two people who have chased storms professionally. Also what do philosophers have to say about the movie?

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    Episode 392 - "Revisions"

    July 12th, 2024  |  44 mins 42 secs

    This week we talk about when and how things get revised from classes to papers to theories. Also we read a paper about a curious cure for poisoning.

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    Episode 391 - "The Things We Take For Granted"

    June 28th, 2024  |  32 mins 6 secs

    This week we discuss JMARS and how you can explore the planets at home with just a few clicks of the mouse. Field camp is almost over and we'll be back to our regular shorts soon!

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    Episode 390 - "Stretch Aquarium"

    May 24th, 2024  |  30 mins 6 secs

    What is a flume and how do sedimentologists used them to understand depositional systems? This and how likely you are to be bitten by a rattlesnake if you step on it in this summer's first Don't Panic Summer Short!

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    Episode 389 - "FieldVolt"

    May 17th, 2024  |  52 mins 40 secs

    Stop losing power and data in the field. John and Shannon discuss the new FieldVolt open power standard.

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    Episode 388 - "Screaming Eagle"

    May 3rd, 2024  |  1 hr 9 mins

    This week John and Shannon talk about what some of the weird weather radar terms that get thrown around mean and how you can use them to keep up with storms impacting you. Then things get morbid with a mouse experiment that ended in an idiocrasy style extinction.

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    Episode 387 - "Adorable Baby Drilling Rig"

    April 26th, 2024  |  46 mins 55 secs

    John went to the Geoprobe open house to look at drilling rigs and then we discuss the optimum way to plan a large number of Christmas parties.

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    Episode 386 - "Rock Colloid"

    April 19th, 2024  |  55 mins 46 secs

    What's tiny, rocky, and alive? Forams! Learn about forams and what diseases James Bond may get while traveling to study them.

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    Episode 385 - "Father Sky Goes Away"

    April 12th, 2024  |  51 mins 1 sec

    John and Shannon both traveled to see the great eclipse of 2024 and share their experiences this week as well as talk about one of those rare times when ice is not a mineral.

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    Episode 384 - "Glaciers caused the great lakes, now we have them, the end" Alexis Dahl

    April 5th, 2024  |  57 mins 44 secs

    This week we interview YouTube science creator, science writer, and communicator Alexis Dahl to learn about the rocks of Michigan's UP and how scientists can do a better job of sharing what they do.

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    Episode 383 - "Logarithmically Fades Away"

    March 29th, 2024  |  46 mins 26 secs

    This week we see how scientists break down the Earth into 7 or more spheres and why that is and isn't a good idea. We also explore a fun paper about graphene that is just full of crap.

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    Episode 382 - "A world without attenuation would be unbearably noisy"

    March 15th, 2024  |  46 mins

    What can we get from mining the moon? Should we? Who can do it? Why should we do it? That and more in this week's show!

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    Episode 381 - "Desk Sedimentology"

    March 8th, 2024  |  50 mins 12 secs

    This week we talk about new national parks, sticky notes, and empirical evidence about fly fishing.