Don't Panic Geocast

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

427 episodes of Don't Panic Geocast since the first episode, which aired on January 16th, 2015.

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    Episode 345 - "3rd Hoodoo on the Left"

    October 7th, 2022  |  34 mins 58 secs

    This week its all about the badlands and how they got to be so bad!

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    Episode 344 - "Pre-Cognated"

    September 30th, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins

    This week we're talking about how we learn new things as we get further in our careers and how we're trying to stay current with our fields.

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    Episode 343 - "Div, Grad, and Curl"

    September 23rd, 2022  |  53 mins 7 secs

    Vector calculus is the basis of many analysis techniques, but it does not need to be complicated!

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    Episode 342 - "Kiss Me"

    September 9th, 2022  |  51 mins 57 secs

    How do we remember all of the sequences, facts, and processes in our fields? Mnemonic devices! This week we chat about a few of our favorites.

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    Episode 341 - "Scrambler Outside the Physics Department"

    September 2nd, 2022  |  40 mins 35 secs

    Fake forces! This week we talk about what they are and why you seem to feel them if they are only apparent.

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    Episode 340 - "Coriolis Thing"

    August 26th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins

    This week we talk about why the Coriolis force is a fictitious force and what it does to balance pressure gradients in the atmosphere.

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    Episode 339 - "Museum with a crater out back"

    August 19th, 2022  |  44 mins 26 secs

    This week we talk about meteor crater and about the little blue pill.... or red pill.

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    Episode 338 - "GEARS 2022"

    August 12th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min

    The GEARS workshop just happened again, hear what we saw, what the students did and more!

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    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!

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    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.

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    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?

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    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?

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    Episode 333 - "Sandphony"

    June 10th, 2022  |  25 mins 50 secs

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

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    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!

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    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!

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    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.