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 309 - "Assume a Spherical Chicken"
November 19th, 2021 | 50 mins 30 secs
This week we talk about a new paper by Schultz et al. determining if folded glasses in the Atacama Desert are extraterrestrial in origin. Then we talk about the ballistics of chickens.
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Episode 308 - "Clay is kind of a trash can" Cements
November 12th, 2021 | 44 mins 33 secs
What holds it all together? Cements! This week we learn what kinds of cements nature uses to make sandstones and other sedimentary rocks. Also we learn about duck swimming patterns.
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Episode 307 - "Up, Up, and Away"
November 5th, 2021 | 37 mins 16 secs
This week John and Shannon talk about launching a large balloon borne instrument and what weather balloons can tell us.
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Episode 306 - "8 Degrees is a lot!" PETM
October 22nd, 2021 | 46 mins 40 secs
This week we talk about the PETM and what may have caused it.
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Episode 305 - "Trovant down by the river"
October 15th, 2021 | 47 mins 2 secs
Trovants are a mysterious spherical rock found in Romania - this week we try to understand why they form.
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Episode 304 - "Bog Clothes" with Dr. Andy Elwood-Madden
October 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 7 mins
Dr. Andy Elwood-Madden joins us to talk about X-Rays, Microscopes, and more!
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Episode 303 - "But do you need it?"
September 24th, 2021 | 56 mins 54 secs
We finish up talking about getting data from the field and protecting your expensive instruments from the harsh outdoors!
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Episode 302 - "Geophysics is Batteries"
September 17th, 2021 | 50 mins 12 secs
Taking measurements in the field is hard - and this week we talk about a few ways power can fail in the field.
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Episode 301 - "Lodestone"
September 10th, 2021 | 50 mins 45 secs
This week John and Shannon tackle the history of magnetism and how whale songs can be used as seismic sources.
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Episode 300 - "Rock can also act as a fluid"
September 3rd, 2021 | 1 hr 58 secs
It's episode 300 and we're here to celebrate with you!
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Episode 299 - "Counterfeit Consciousness"
August 20th, 2021 | 1 hr 18 mins
This week we summarize what happened at the workshop and what happens when authors use AI to plagiarize papers.
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Episode 298 - "Little Nerd Arms"
August 13th, 2021 | 58 mins 56 secs
This week we talk about the wet bulb temperature and what it means for you this summer!
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Episode 297 - "Acid Gel" Shell Formation
July 23rd, 2021 | 34 mins 2 secs
Shannon is back from the beach and wondering how shells form, so we dig into some biological literature to learn how living animals form rock.
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Episode 296 - "Explosive Erosion"
July 9th, 2021 | 44 mins 17 secs
Does the earth change rapidly or slowly? We discuss the competing philosophies and the evolution of.... well, the end of the road for your food!
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Episode 295 - "Touch the rocks"
July 2nd, 2021 | 1 hr 12 mins
Shannon and John talk about what digital skills students have and what they need as well as what happens to a block of wood when you squeeze it.
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Episode 294 - "enormous catastrophe"
June 18th, 2021 | 52 mins 6 secs
How bad was that earthquake? This week we look at the confusing world of earthquake intensity scales and the future of flat pack pasta.