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Episodes
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Episode 86 - "There's all kinds of terror" Laura Wallace
September 16th, 2016 | 1 hr 3 mins
This week we take it slow. Laura Wallace joins us to talk plate tectonics and slow slip in New Zealand. Also a project that gets the best acronym of the year award. Laura Wallace Fun Paper Friday The David is one of the most famous sculptures...
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Episode 85 - "Please buy tickets to Oklahoma today"
September 10th, 2016 | 39 mins 25 secs
Earthquake! Last week Oklahoma was rocked by the largest recorded earthquake recorded in the state’s history. We talk with Dr. Katie Keranen who is in the field deploying seismic instruments to study the event. Sorry for the audio quality this week...
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Episode 84 - "It might be too soon" (The Limerock Challenge)
September 2nd, 2016 | 27 mins 59 secs
A few weeks ago we finished collecting all of your limericks in our contest to win some sweet geo-swag from Chris at . This week we are joined by special guest Katie Shearer to announce the winners and read more of our favorites! If you didn’t win,...
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Episode 83 - "Out of the country" (Brad Jolliff Rebroadcast)
August 26th, 2016 | 52 mins 47 secs
We are teaching and traveling with the start of the semester. Since John has no solid cell phone signal at a conference in New Hampshire and Shannon is swimming in lecturing, we wanted to share one of our favorite interviews from this year! This week...
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Episode 82 - "What Summer?"
August 19th, 2016 | 52 mins 16 secs
Classes start next week - it’s time to evaluate what we did over the summer. How did our summer manifestos work out and what are we going to accomplish this fall? John’s Fall Goals Figure out my future job Finish up a couple of...
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Episode 81 - "Landscape Bulldozers" The Driftless
August 12th, 2016 | 39 mins
This week we address a listener show request from Mike about the Driftless region and address the phenomena of Pokemon Go. Can it improve our spatial reasoning? Driftless Region Fun Paper Friday What are the effects of Pokemon Go on...
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Episode 80 - "Dam Nation"
August 5th, 2016 | 42 mins 40 secs
Having just got back from vacationing near a river, Shannon’s mind is wondering (and wandering!) about dams and their impacts, both good and bad. People use dams for electricity, recreation, flood control, and a myriad of other things. Let’s take...
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Episode 79 - "Secret Balloon Barn"
July 29th, 2016 | 44 mins 55 secs
Forecasting the weather is tricky business. You need a lot of information. While surface observations can get us a lot of data, we still need information about what is happening far into the atmosphere to make meaningful models and predictions. Thats...
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Episode 78 - "Just trying to narrow down the issue" Apollo 11
July 22nd, 2016 | 32 mins 1 sec
This week we discuss the anniversary of the first manned lunar landing and how a software glitch puts over 40,000 brain studies at risk. Apollo 11 Crew: , , and Fun Paper Friday Contest Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a...
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Episode 77 - "It's Swedish Fish day" SciPy 2016
July 15th, 2016 | 29 mins 53 secs
A few SciPy talks Feedback Contest Write us a geoscience themed limerick! This is a family show, so remember…nothing that rhymes with “Nantucket.” Please email us your limericks by August 12, 2016 and we’ll be judging them along with...
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Episode 76 - "You can't runaway in an oxbow lake"
July 8th, 2016 | 23 mins 27 secs
This week a massive landslide took place in Alaska. Join us to discuss it, Jupiter’s wife, and electric eels on a geo-news episode! Fun Paper Friday Electric eels are creepy, but did you know that they can jump out of the water to better...
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Episode 75 - "It tells you where they like to vacation"
July 1st, 2016 | 29 mins 22 secs
What’s your favorite formation? It’s like asking a geologist what their favorite book is. Find out what Shannon has to say about the Fountain formation and then we connect it to metal music. Fun Paper Friday What are the risks of...
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Episode 74 - "You pay $5000, then leave"
June 24th, 2016 | 34 mins 9 secs
This week we talk about how academic papers get published and all the strange things they go through before you read them. Shannon also found us a fascinating fun paper about trees sleeping. Feedback Publishing Fun Paper Friday Do trees sleep?...
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Episode 73 - "A gigapan from 1906"
June 18th, 2016 | 27 mins 5 secs
This week we talk about how one very famous aerial photograph was taken and how it relates to one of the most devastating earthquakes of the last century. Feedback The most famous kite based photograph Fun Paper Friday Contact us:...
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Episode 72 - "I have a lot of words"
June 10th, 2016 | 24 mins 43 secs
Shannon has been feeling the effects of topography, temperature, and field weather conditions. This week we link geology and meteorology talking about Orographic lift and other made up words. Fun Paper Friday Swearing could make it hurt...
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Episode 71 - "My New MacBook" Summer Manifestos
June 3rd, 2016 | 43 mins 21 secs
This week we kick off summer shorts with our 2016 summer manifestos and talk about a relieving #FunPaperFriday. Shannon’s Manifesto Work (again) on my first proposal Work with grad students on their projects High School Geoscience Academy Publish...