Don't Panic Geocast

This week Elecia White from Embedded.fm joins us to talk about embedded electronics, beach sand pirates, and bear bells. Also John has microphone issues, sorry about that! Embedded.fm Logical Elegance Elecia on Twitter (@logicalelegance) Embedded.fm on Twitter (@embeddedfm) Arduino mbed Sparkfun Electronics ESP8266 Thing Shot Spotter Introduction to California’s Beaches and Coast Longshore Drift Dolos Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Shannon has been learning how to play engineer. This week we talk about getting your hands dirty and how we learn new skills. Learning New Skills Debugging (Book) YouTube Lynda.com Libraries Podcasts Embedded.fm Fun Paper Friday Tuk, Mirjam A., Debra Trampe, and Luk Warlop. “Inhibitory spillover increased urination urgency facilitates impulse control in unrelated domains.” Psychological Science 22.5 (2011): 627–633. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

John and Shannon are back to doing science instead of troubleshooting and take a break to talk with Dr. Greg Wilson about Software Carpentry, how to teach effectively, and a smattering of related topics about the academic world. Greg Wilson Software Carpentry Data Carpentry Library Carpentry It Will Never Work in Theory The Architecture of Open Source Applications Request a Software Carpentry Workshop Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Lang) How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (Ambrose et al.) Fun Paper Friday Stefik, Andreas, and Susanna Siebert. “An empirical investigation into programming language syntax.” ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 13.4 (2013): 19. Greg’s Review or Stefik and Siebert Whitten, Alma, and J. Doug Tygar. “Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0.” Usenix Security. Vol. 1999. 1999. Perez De Rosso, Santiago, and Daniel Jackson. “What’s wrong with git?: a conceptual design.” (2013). Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

Shannon has been in the field sampling the great unconformity and John has been traveling to prepare for an exciting change. Join us this week to learn about discontinuities of all kinds! Unconformities Sedimentary Rocks Siccar Point Unconformity Geologic Time Lab Activity Grand Canyon Geology The Great Unconformity Fun Paper Friday Peters, Shanan E., and Robert R. Gaines. “Formation of the Great Unconformity as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion.” Nature 484.7394 (2012): 363–366. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

This week we address a listener question about air pressure. What is it? Is the Earth’s atmosphere different thicknesses at different places? Find out, along with the answer to the age old question: “Where are all the teaspoons?” Air Pressure International Standard Atmosphere Barometric Pressure Pascal (unit) Scale Height Hydrostatic Equation Upper Air Maps Make a barometer Density Altitude Fun Paper Lim, Megan SC, Margaret E. Hellard, and Campbell K. Aitken. “The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute.” BMJ 331.7531 (2005): 1498–1500.

John and Shannon are still fighting lab equipment, but take a break to talk to a guest suggested by listener Angie about how climate change is forming our landscape. Ben Crosby Dr. Crosby’s Website Permafrost Thermokarst Gooseff, Michael N., et al. “Effects of hillslope thermokarst in northern Alaska.” Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 90.4 (2009): 29–30. Jorgenson, M. Torre, Yuri L. Shur, and Erik R. Pullman. “Abrupt increase in permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaska.” Geophysical Research Letters 33.2 (2006). Pelletier, Jon D., et al. “Forecasting the response of Earth’s surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs.” Earth’s Future 3.7 (2015): 220–251. Olefeldt, D., et al. “Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes.” Nature Communications 7 (2016): 13043. Alaska has finally been mapped as precisely as Mars Fun Paper Friday Butcher, F. E. G., et al. “The Dorsa Argentea, Mars: Comparison to> 5900 Terrestrial Esker Systems and Statistical Tests for Topographic Relationships.” (2016). Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

John and Shannon are fighting lab equipment, but they take a break to continue their discussion of hurricanes. This week we talk about how we measure hurricanes - from airplanes to buoys. Hurricane Hunters Reporter Flys with the Hunters (YouTube) 403rd Wing Homepage NOAA Hurricane Hunters Homepage AT–6 Texan WC–130 WP–3D Gulfstream IV Storm Chasers Book (David Toomey) Instruments Dropsonde Driftsonde National Data Buoy Center Weather Buoy John’s Article on Tsunami Buoy Data Weather Ship Guabancex Fun Paper Friday This week’s fun paper is all about woodpeckers, how their eyes stay in their skulls, their skull structure, and other fascinating adaptations to handle literally beating their heads into a wall. Schwab, Ivan R. “Cure for a headache.” British Journal of Ophthalmology 86.8 (2002): 843–843. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

We’ve had a fairly active hurricane season, so we thought that maybe now would be a good time to discuss what exactly a hurricane is, especially for those of us non-coastal dwellers who maybe don’t think about them as much as say…tornadoes! National Hurricane Center Hurricane Structure Storm Surge Hurricane FAQ Typhoon Tip Hurricane Patricia NHC Hurricane Patricia Report Hurricane Wilma 1900 Galveston Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Andrew Hurricane Sandy Saffir-Simpson Scale Fun Paper Friday Bantoft, Christina, et al. “Effect of Standing or Walking at a Workstation on Cognitive Function A Randomized Counterbalanced Trial.” Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58.1 (2016): 140–149. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin  

John visits Maker Faire and Shannon found another paper about video games to answer questions we raised last week. Maker Faire Glank Ono Smartphone 3D printer Glowforge Referral Link! Beagle Bone OSHPark See Me CNC Aleph Objects   Chipsetter Shaper Origin Wazer Tormach Fun Paper Friday Greitemeyer, Tobias, and Dirk O. Mügge. “Video games do affect social outcomes a meta-analytic review of the effects of violent and prosocial video game play.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2014): 0146167213520459. Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin

Shannon has been at the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver and John is about to head off to Maker Faire. Join us to hear about the latest in geology and a fun paper we almost chickened out on. GSA Meeting 2016 Charon Helene Bingham Material Fun Paper Friday Who knew there was so much work on human-chicken relationships? Apparently listener Steve did! Fothergill, B.T. and Flick, C. 2015. The ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games: the origins of the digital chicken. Computers and Society - Special Issue on Ethicomp 45 (3) 100–108 Contact us: Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - SWUNG Slack - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin