Don't Panic Geocast

This week we talk about the dreaded stereonet and why it's useful and somewhat... odd.

• Great Stereonet Video Series
• On Teaching Stereonets
• Visible Geology

• What's the best way to make a uniform crepe or pancake? Find out with just a bit of math!
• Boujo, E., and M. Sellier. "Pancake making and surface coating: optimal control of a gravity-driven liquid film." Physical Review Fluids 4.6 (2019): 064802.

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John Leeman

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Shannon Dulin

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This week we talk about how YOU can contribute to science with citizen science efforts and what it takes to make a successful citizen science project.

• SETI@Home
• Pl@ntNet
• BioBlitz
• OK BioBlitz
• urad Monitor
• Bud Burst

• How to run a successful citizen science project

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Shannon Dulin

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Join us this week as we talk about ways to keep track of the many aspects of geology and personal projects!

• ThinkPad P51
• Asana
• Trello
• OneNote

• Do cabbies have enhanced areas of their brains to store spatial maps? Find out on this fun paper’s Friday.
• Maguire, Eleanor A., et al. “Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97.8 (2000): 4398–4403.

Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

iPads in the field. We’ve talked about it before, but it’s been awhile. This week Corey Scheip joins us to talk about his experiences with tech and large teams.

• Notability App
• Dropbox Business
• Collector App
• Dioptra App
• Theodolite App
• Corey on LinkedIn

• Running on the water - this is a contender for the most absurd experimental setup we’ve seen this year.
• Minetti, Alberto E., et al. “Humans running in place on water at simulated reduced gravity.” PLoS One 7.7 (2012): e37300.

Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected]

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

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 a look at some huge dams and what they do to both communities and rivers.

• Oroville (1968) is the tallest in the US, and earthen dam in CA 770’ high
• Hoover (1935) is next at 726’ high on the border of AZ and NV
• Tallest dam in the world is Jingping-I dam (2013) in China is 1000’ high
• Largest reservoir in the US is Lake Mead, which holds 29 million acre-feet of water
• Glen Canyon dam
• Lake Powell on the AZ/UT border, and is a close second at 26 million acre-feet capacity.
• Colorado River
• WPA

• Water supply
• Irrigation and flood control
• Power supply
• Recreation

• Hoover dam generates 4.5 billion kw-hr per year, serving 8 million people in AZ, southern CA and NV
• Itaipu dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay, dams the Parana River, the 7th largest in the world.
• Penstock

Borgonie, G., et al. “Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa.” Nature communications 6 (2015).

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 Dr. Katie Schearer, an english professor. The prize? One of the awesome creations from Chris at Taylor Custom. Thanks for listening everyone!

Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - SWUNG Slack - [email protected]

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin