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This week we talk about porosity - or what all of the empty space in a rock is and why it is important. Primary Porosity Secondary Porosity Fracture Porosity Vuggy Porosity Effective/Open Porosity Ineffective/Closed Porosity Dual Porosity Macroporosity Mesoporosity Microporosity Fun Paper Friday Hungry? Eat the same thing as others at the table to gain their trust! Woolley, Kaitlin, and Ayelet Fishbach. "A recipe for friendship: Similar food consumption promotes trust and cooperation." Journal of Consumer Psychology 27.1 (2017): 1-10. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we show 2020 out the door with our 2021 resolutions and yearly planning show! John be more decisive and reactive but in a good way less reflection on made decisions more forward focus work on something and focus get out of team task tracking get back into GTD, especially 2 min rule learn to fly leadership at work Shannon Didn't put her resolutions in the show notes! (Email her!) Fun Paper Friday In our first ever revisit - we come back to a new way to classify minerals. Cleland, Carol E., Robert M. Hazen, and Shaunna M. Morrison. "Historical natural kinds and mineralogy: Systematizing contingency in the context of necessity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.1. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we update you on the 2020 status and that we'll be back in 2021! Fun Paper Friday We start our first ever two part fun paper! https://phys.org/news/2020-12-scientists-philosopher-team-categorize-minerals.html Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about dust storms or haboobs and why they occur. Haboob Fun Paper Friday What's a monotreme? We take a biology 101 refresher and discover that the platypus was glow in the dark with this week's fun paper! Anich, P. S., Anthony, S., Carlson, M., Gunnelson, A., Kohler, A. M., Martin, J. G., & Olson, E. R. (2020). Biofluorescence in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Mammalia, 1(ahead-of-print). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week Capt. Jeff Grass talks to us about being prepared for natural disasters! Fun Paper Friday Can a can of Coke make solar cells more efficient? Wang, Rui, et al. "Caffeine improves the performance and thermal stability of perovskite solar cells." Joule 3.6 (2019): 1464-1477. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about how conferences have adapted to covid, why John is building hands on learning tools, and about nutrient exchange in bogs for meat eating plants! Fun Paper Friday Carnivorous plants just eat flies right? Think again! Moldowan, Patrick D., et al. "Nature's pitfall trap: salamanders as rich prey for carnivorous plants in a nutrient‐poor northern bog ecosystem." Ecology 100.10 (2019): e02770. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

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! Ryan's Twitter Unidata Fun Paper Friday Vampires - a classic predator prey problem? Hartl, Richard F., Alexander Mehlmann, and Andreas Novak. "Cycles of fear: periodic bloodsucking rates for vampires." Journal of optimization theory and applications 75.3 (1992): 559-568. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week National Weather Service Tulsa WFO Meteorologist In Charge Steve Piltz joins us to talk about a career in the weather service and finding unique ways to solve forecast problems! Fun Paper Friday Do ants count their steps to get home? Wittlinger, Matthias, Rüdiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf. "The ant odometer: stepping on stilts and stumps." science 312.5782 (2006): 1965-1967. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week John and Shannon agree to talk about playas, only to discover that they think about very different things. Fun Paper Friday Man eating deer? Looks like it! Meckel, Lauren A., Chloe P. McDaneld, and Daniel J. Wescott. "White‐tailed deer as a taphonomic agent: photographic evidence of white‐tailed deer gnawing on human bone." Journal of forensic sciences 63.1 (2018): 292-294. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about machine learning - what is it exactly and how can we leverage it as geologists? Will it be as useful as the horta? Fun Paper Friday How do we know about Earth's past climate? Well, here are a few unusual ideas! Five Weird Climate Archives Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about analog experiments, what they are, and how you can do them! Geologists' Squeeze Box Squeeze Box Core Tubes Fun Paper Friday This week we do the worm! Find out how worms dance on speakers in this week's Fun Paper! Maksymov, Ivan S., and Andrey Pototsky. "Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms." Scientific Reports 10.1 (2020): 1-11. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

How did the Earth get its magnetic field? Why do we still have it? Find out that and more this week! Chris Finlay's Research Fun Paper Friday Can animals sense earthquakes? Can we sense animals sensing earthquakes? Wikelski, Martin, et al. "Potential short-term earthquake forecasting by farm-animal monitoring." bioRxiv (2020). Contact us: Show - Support us on Patreon! - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - [email protected] John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about fronts and the warm air conveyor belt! Fun Paper Friday Do you think you have a good sense of direction? Maybe it's the magnetite in your brain! Researchers put brains in a magnetometer to find out! Human Brains Have Tiny Bits of Magnetic Material Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about why we go to Antarctica and what kinds of work happens there each year! Fun Paper Friday What happens if you hold a cat in your dating profile photo? This important question answered by this week's fun paper! Kogan, Lori, and Shelly Volsche. "Not the Cat’s Meow? The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability." Animals 10.6 (2020): 1007. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about derechos - what are they and why did one sweep across the upper midwest bringing wide spread distruction? Find out that and how sword swallowers do what they do in this week's show! NWS Derecho Page Fun Paper Friday How to sword swallowers do it? Do they ever get injured? We touch on this pointy topic with a fun paper! Witcombe, Brian, and Dan Meyer. "Sword swallowing and its side effects." Bmj 333.7582 (2006): 1285-1287. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we interview Shannon about her career path to becoming a dual degree student and professor in geology! Fun Paper Friday Barnett, Adrian, Inger Mewburn, and Sara Schroter. "Working 9 to 5, not the way to make an academic living: observational analysis of manuscript and peer review submissions over time." bmj 367 (2019). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

Hot spots - what are they? We don't know either! Explore with us on this week's show. J. Tuzo Wilson Pele Searches for a Home Pele Honua Mea Fun Paper Friday Nawroth, Christian, et al. "Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions." Royal Society open science 5.8 (2018): 180491. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

Comet NEOWISE is in the sky - learn all about it and comets in general! Fun Paper Friday The Earth hums with normal modes - learn how scientists are picking them up with seismometers on the bottom of the ocean. Deen, M., et al. "First observation of the Earth's permanent free oscillations on ocean bottom seismometers." Geophysical Research Letters 44.21 (2017): 10-988. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we learn how searching for a downed aircraft may have helped us better understand how plate tectonics work... we think... maybe. It's not an exact science. Fun Paper Friday Fans - hot or not? Find out by sticking undergrads in a thermal chamber! Ravanelli, Nicholas M., et al. "Heart rate and body temperature responses to extreme heat and humidity with and without electric fans." Jama 313.7 (2015): 724-725. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about why we don't believe that a rock ID app is a possibility now or potentially ever. Fun Paper Friday How do you convert human years to dog years? Turns out it is a bit more complicated than we thought. Wang, Tina, et al. "Quantitative Translation of Dog-to-Human Aging by Conserved Remodeling of the DNA Methylome." Cell Systems (2020). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week it's all about rainbows, light, reflection, refraction, and how it's just like an earthquake! Fun Paper Friday Have you seen products marketed as "chemical free"? This weeks paper looks at those claims with an analytical eye. Goldberg, Alexander FG, and C. J. Chemjobber. "A comprehensive overview of chemical-free consumer products." Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we Mystery Science Theater 3000 our own Episode 0 to celebrate the 8-bit rollover of our show!

This week we learn what life is like as a state geologist with Stacey Evans and how fish fart. Fun Paper Friday How do fish fart? Why? Wilson, Ben, Robert S. Batty, and Lawrence M. Dill. "Pacific and Atlantic herring produce burst pulse sounds." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 271.suppl_3 (2004): S95-S97. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we explore the geology of Yosemite and how continents are built! Fun Paper Friday Think dad jokes are bad? Try professor jokes! But do they work? Wandersee, James H. "Humor as a teaching strategy." The American Biology Teacher 44.4 (1982): 212-218. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we have guest John Leeman? That's right! Shannon wants to know why John took the path he did and how her students can find their own. We're also buzzing about this great un-beeelievable fun paper. Fun Paper Friday Pashalidou, Foteini G., et al. "Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce." Science 368.6493 (2020): 881-884. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

You'd think we'd know what caused a big hole in the ground, but we don't. Learn why upheaval dome remains a mystery in this week's show! Upheaval Dome ASU Virtual Field Trip Fun Paper Friday Are there environmentally conscious aliens out there? Find out in this week's fun paper! Montet, Benjamin, and Ryan Loomis. "SET-E: The Search for Extraterrestrial Environmentalism." arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09428 (2016). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week Shannon walks us through how she's planning to teach students field geology online and talks about the pains of learning to delegate in the field. Thinglink Solocator Fun Paper Friday Thanks to Darryl for bringing us this harrowing flight related fun paper! AAIB Bulliten S1-2020 Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we delve into the hot world of radiometric methods in geophysics. Find out how gamma rays help us find natural resources and why radioactive materials are concentrated in certain formations. Fun Paper Friday Pressure is on to find a new way to sterilize medical tools. Find out what household appliance is helping! Swenson, Vaille A., et al. "Assessment and verification of commercially available pressure cookers for laboratory sterilization." PloS one 13.12 (2018). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week up look upward to the stars! Learn about stellar classification and how it is important to a geologist! Glowy Earthquakes Crazy Walls H-R Diagrams Fun Paper Friday You look older - were you an elected official? Olenski, Andrew R., Matthew V. Abola, and Anupam B. Jena. "Do heads of government age more quickly? Observational study comparing mortality between elected leaders and runners-up in national elections of 17 countries." bmj 351 (2015): h6424. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we get palinspastic! Find out how geologists can "unfold" time and reconstruct what past landscapes looked like from a geologic cross-section! Fun Paper Friday Which type of doctor speeds the most? (Well, medical doctors that is.) Find out in this week's Fun Paper! Zimerman, André, et al. "The need for speed: observational study of physician driving behaviors." bmj 367 (2019). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

What's it like to be told you need to teach field geology online? This week we talk about distance learning in higher-ed. Fun Paper Friday What's special about 33? Booker, Andrew R. "Cracking the problem with 33." Research in Number Theory 5.3 (2019): 26. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

It's time to finish our ABC's! Also we discuss things of a fecal culinary nature on Fun Paper Friday! N - Neap tide O - Ophiolite P - Placer Deposit Q - Quadrangle R - Rating Curve S - Seamount T - Tidewater Glacier U - Unconformity V - Varve W - Womble Shale X - Xyloid Coal Y-Yazoo Stream Z - Zone of Aeration Fun Paper Friday This week... pooopknives.pdf! Eren, Metin I., et al. "Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27 (2019): 102002. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we learn the ABC's again! It's time for another geology ABC's series with some great new words to learn. Join us for part one of this two part series. Fun Paper Friday Brucks, Désirée, and Auguste MP von Bayern. "Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards." Current Biology (2020). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about stress, strain, and how they are different! Fun Paper Friday See how to get data from natural drones and download it via USBee in this week's Fun Paper! Iyer, Vikram, et al. "Living IoT: A flying wireless platform on live insects." The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. 2019. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we interview Dr. Eric Kelsey about winter precipitation and his ventures into open-source hardware! Dr. Kelsey's Plymouth Page Mt. Washington Observatory Fun Paper Friday Weimerskirch, Henri, et al. "Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.6 (2020): 3006-3014. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week Dr.Alison Nugent joins us to talk about giant cloud condensation nuclei and life as an assistant professor of atmospheric science in Hawaii. Alison's Website Facebook: @Dr.AlisonNugent Instagram: cloudyday24 Fun Paper Friday Hinners, Paige, Madison Thomas, and Young Jin Lee. "Determining fingerprint age with mass spectrometry imaging via ozonolysis of triacylglycerols." Analytical Chemistry (2020). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow in the follow up to the winter storm that hit the plains this week. Why do these occur? Find out! Fun Paper Friday Neuroskeptic. "The nine circles of scientific hell." Perspectives on Psychological Science 7.6 (2012): 643-644. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week it's all about aquifers and how they work! Water does not sit in lakes underground, but truth is stranger than fiction. Fun Paper Friday Upper, Dennis. "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”." Journal of applied behavior analysis 7.3 (1974): 497. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week John recaps his trip to AMS and Shannon teases a show on her field work! Find AMS talks here TORUS project WX Symbols NCAR Dropsonde Tim's Cowbell Video Fun Paper Friday This week it's a meaty subject! Cole, James. "Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic." Scientific reports 7 (2017): 44707. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

What's that in the sky? A bird? A plane? No, it's a scary looking cloud! Find out what it was this week! Flammagenitus (with great chart at the bottom) Australia Pyrocumulus Kelvin Helmholtz Instability Lenticular Cloud Wired Article on Morning Glories Nacreous Clouds Noctilucent Clouds Arcus Clouds Mammatus Clouds Fun Paper Friday Hart, Vlastimil, et al. "Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field." Frontiers in zoology 10.1 (2013): 80. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we go over the last year and discuss our plans for 2020 before diving into a discussion on pupil shapes in various animals. Don't miss it! Fun Paper Friday Banks, Martin S., et al. "Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?." Science advances 1.7 (2015): e1500391. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we finish up talking about deserts with some of our favorite features - dunes, ventifacts, and more! Sailing Stones Ventifact Dunes Fun Paper Friday How can math and physics "improve" hunting a lion? Pétard, H. "A contribution to the mathematical theory of big game hunting." Amer. Math. Monthly 45 (1938): 446-447. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we stick to a dry subject - deserts! Learn about how rocks weather in a place where there isn't much. Peltier diagram on weathering Desert Varnish Rock Exfoliation Video Fun Paper Friday What if the Earth were replaced with blueberries? Sandberg, Anders. "Blueberry Earth." arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10553 (2018). Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

Deserts - hot and dry right? Wrong! There's so much more to them! Fun Paper Friday Synthetic Uranus? Magnetic Fields? Learn more in this week's fun paper. Chau, Ricky, Sebastien Hamel, and William J. Nellis. "Chemical processes in the deep interior of Uranus." Nature communications 2 (2011): 203. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

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 Fun Paper Friday 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. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

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 Fun Paper Friday How to run a successful citizen science project Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week Matt Hall of Agile Scientific joins John to talk about teaching Python, the ways scientists get around learning programming, and how to help them learn these tools! Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk about fire weather and wildfires! It's a hot topic. We also visit a somewhat Halloween appropriate fun paper from the Journal of Experimental Biology. National Fire Danger Rating Index Mesonet Fire Weather Page Burning Index Ignition Component Spread Component Fuel Moisture Keetch-Byram Drought Index Fun Paper Friday It's Halloween Fun Paper Time! Hands, guitar tuners, and accelerometers. Horns, Joshua, Rebekah Jung, and David R. Carrier. "In vitro strain in human metacarpal bones during striking: testing the pugilism hypothesis of hominin hand evolution." Journal of Experimental Biology 218.20 (2015): 3215-3221. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we talk to Dr. Jeffrey Wagman about experimental psychology, perception, and what it takes to write a "Fun Paper" worthy paper! Jeff's Website Fun Paper Friday This week we discuss knights in shining armor! Askew, Graham N., Federico Formenti, and Alberto E. Minetti. "Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers' locomotor performance." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279.1729 (2011): 640-644. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin

This week we wrap up our discussion of how plate tectonics can influence climate, then discuss zebra stripes on a fascinating fun paper Friday! Fun Paper Friday Kojima, Tomoki, et al. "Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack." PloS one 14.10 (2019): e0223447. Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! www.dontpanicgeocast.com SWUNG Slack @dontpanicgeo [email protected] John Leeman www.johnrleeman.com @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin @ShannonDulin