Don't Panic Geocast

Episode 337 - "Air Guitar"

July 22nd, 2022  |  28 mins 56 secs

The summer shorts musical theme continues with sferics and another paper from the BMJ Christmas edition!

Episode 336 - "Chopstick Breaking Sound"

July 15th, 2022  |  41 mins 18 secs

This week we talk about sounds from the Aurora and strange atmospheric conditions that create it.

Episode 335 - "Fish with a Ray Gun"

July 1st, 2022  |  26 mins 19 secs

We stick with our musical theme for summer shorts and talk about singing ice! Also why is it important to be stupid as a scientist?

Episode 334 - "Rock Concert"

June 24th, 2022  |  30 mins 22 secs

Our musical themed summer shorts continue with the phenomena of ringing rocks! Also, can math get you out of that failure to stop ticket?

Episode 333 - "Sandphony"

June 10th, 2022  |  25 mins 50 secs

This week we talk about singing sands and how on Earth dunes make noise.

Episode 332 - "Caliche"

June 3rd, 2022  |  26 mins 52 secs

We kick off summer shorts by talking about caliche and ways it makes new field geologists crazy!

EPISODE 331 - "GUESS AGAIN DUMMY" RYAN MAY

May 20th, 2022  |  1 hr 33 mins

This week Dr. Ryan May joins us to talk about life as a scientific software developer and his career path from radars to radiosondes and more!

Episode 330 - "Blamo"

May 13th, 2022  |  1 hr 5 mins

Last week we talked about material hardness, but what about when materials crack and fracture? This week we talk about fracture toughness.

Episode 329 - "Granite Annulus"

May 6th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins

What makes a material hard? What makes it tough? Are they the same thing?

Episode 328 - "Bouma"

April 22nd, 2022  |  56 mins 23 secs

This week we talk about the famous Bouma sequence in more detail and look at where the world of quantum physics could have been in a parallel universe.

Episode 327 - "Delta Tesseract"

April 15th, 2022  |  50 mins 20 secs

What happens when rivers meet oceans? All kinds of fun sedimentary processes that build deltas. Learn more this week along with a discussion of one man's favorite boulders.

Episode 326 - "The Pinky Raise"

April 8th, 2022  |  46 mins 12 secs

We talk about conglomerates, how they form, how we classify them, and more. Then we talk about distribution of hook worms in poop.

Episode 325 - "It turns to mud"

April 1st, 2022  |  55 mins 40 secs

This week we talk about the Colorado River and what Shannon was doing back out in the field last week.

Episode 324 - "Nanoknots"

March 25th, 2022  |  43 mins 16 secs

Hot spots are a hot topic and nowhere more so than Hawaii. We weigh in this week.

Episode 323 - "Bug light for nerds"

March 18th, 2022  |  48 mins 33 secs

Episode 322 - "TeX Makes it Beautiful"

March 11th, 2022  |  59 mins 34 secs

What the heck is TeX? It's a way to make beautiful documents, equations, and more. This week to talk about its origins and how to get started. We also talk daggers' - ancient daggers to be precise.