Don't Panic Geocast

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

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

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.