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PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast
A Geology and Earth Science Podcast. Join Chris, an award-winning geology teacher, and Jesse, a geoscience professor, in discussing the amazing features of our planet and their impact on your everyday life. No prior knowledge required. New episodes coming at you every week. Listen, subscribe, share with someone you know!
Episodes
- PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast
Why is Water "Hard"?
Today is our latest episode in our series on climate. Jesse and Chris discuss the meaning of "Hard Water". Chris and Jesse both have hard water at our houses…
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Exploration and Mining Geology - Dr. Steph Mrozek
Join us as we interview Dr. Steph Mrozek. Steph is an economic geologist with interests in interests in skarn and porphyry deposits and geochemistry applied to…
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The Epic Earthlings Grand Canyon Questions - Answered!
Join Chris and Jesse as we tackle questions about the Grand Canyon. A 4th grade class, Bronx Little School, reached out in a letter with a list of fantastic…
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And...We're Back! The Greenhouse Effect
Today, we re-visit one our earliest episodes that we recorded when this whole thing began. We've decided to do a small series on Earth's climate and feel that…
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Cure the Winter Blues - Yosemite National Park (ReRelease)
We are on a break, but you can join us now on a virtual Summer Science Institute trip! Follow the virtual Mr. Bolhuis as we go on a geo-tour of many of the…
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Cure the Winter Blues - The Grand Canyon (ReRelease)
We are happy to announce the release of our new Geology of the Grand Canyon book on the CampGeo mobile app - Download now to start listening! We are on a…
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Cure the Winter Blues - Glacier National Park (ReRelease)
We are on a break, but you can join us now on a virtual Summer Science Institute trip! Follow the virtual Mr. Bolhuis as we go on a geo-tour of many of the…
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Cure the Winter Blues - Yellowstone National Park (ReRelease)
We are on a break, but you can join us now on a virtual Summer Science Institute trip! Follow the virtual Mr. Bolhuis as we go on a geo-tour of many of the…
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Cure the Winter Blues - Grand Teton National Park (ReRelease)
We are on a break, but you can join us now on a virtual Summer Science Institute trip! Follow the virtual Mr. Bolhuis as we go on a geo-tour of many of the…
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Cure the Winter Blues - Devil's Tower National Monument (ReRelease)
We are on a break, but you can join us now on a virtual Summer Science Institute trip! Follow the virtual Mr. Bolhuis as we go on a geo-tour of many of the…
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Cure the Winter Blues - The Black Hills (ReRelease)
We are on a break, but you can join us now on a virtual Summer Science Institute trip! Follow the virtual Mr. Bolhuis as we go on a geo-tour of many of the…
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Cure the Winter Blues - Badlands National Park (ReRelease)
We are on a break, but you can join us now on a virtual Summer Science Institute trip! Follow the virtual Mr. Bolhuis as we go on a geo-tour of many of the…
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Slow Carbon - The Rock Carbon Cycle
Today, Jesse and Chris tackle the topic of the Slow Carbon Cycle. We've been talking about this for a while now. This is a very complicate cycle that involves…
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The Infiltration Game - Soils and Flooding
In this episode, we tackle the issue of infiltration capacity. The idea came to us in the form of a listener question due to recent events. Infiltration…
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Forming Earth's Ocean - Office Hours
Download the CampGeo app now at this link. On the app you can get tons of free content, exclusive images, and access to our Geology of National Parks series…
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The Anthropocene
Download the CampGeo app now at this link. On the app you can get tons of free content, exclusive images, and access to our Geology of National Parks series…
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Remapping Yellowstone National Park
Download the CampGeo app now at this link. On the app you can get tons of free content, exclusive images, and access to our Geology of National Parks series…
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The Geology of Copper
Today we talk about Copper! The metal that is essential to all our lives, but goes largely underrated. Here is a link to the article Chris references in the…
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Explore or Optimize? Interview with Erica Dalman
Download the CampGeo app now at this link. On the app you can get tons of free content, exclusive images, and access to our Geology of National Parks series…
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Chris and Jesse Finally Agree
This week, we are asking you to do us a favor. We are really exited because we just launched our brand new campGeo mobile app. So, we would really appreciate…
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Are You Karsty? Sinkholes and Karst
Today, Jesse and Chris discuss the distinction between sinkholes and karst topography. There is a surprisingly large portion of the U.S. that has potential to…
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Geoscience is EVEN MORE Important
We get a bit reflective today and discuss the importance of Geoscience to society - and how it has changed in the last three years. Jesse recently went to a…
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Going, Going, Gone - Disappearing Streams
Today, we each give our take on disappearing streams. When the idea was first pitched, we were thinking about 2 different things. The result - we talked about…
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Geoscience Careers #1 - Renewable Consulting with Andrew DeWitt
Today we have the great pleasure to interview a close friend of the podcast - Andrew Dewitt. Andrew has had a long career in the environmental consulting…
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Petrification
Today, we are talking about the process of making petrified wood. Basically, wood has to be quickly buried in a wet setting where the water is also saturated…
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Creepy Soil
Today, we talk about all things soil creep. Have you ever been on a steep slope and seen bent or curved trees, slanted fence posts, slanted headstones or…
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Stream Drainage Patterns
Just as in so many aspects of the way the world works, geology determines the drainage patterns (or watershed) of rivers. Today, we discuss the major types of…
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Earth's Geological MRI Scan
Today, we cover something very interesting - a new initiative by the United States Geological Survey to map Earth's resources at a new level. Geology is newly…
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Rockhounding 101
Today, we cover one of our favorite past times - RockHounding! It's a totally fun, engaging activity that gets you outside and learning about nature. And, who…
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How To Identify Rocks
In this episode we start a looong conversation about how to identify rocks. We begin by outlining a few simple rules to go by, and how to start to think about…
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Yellowstone's "Rock" Music
Listen to Yellowstone's rock music here! Today we talk about the fun exercise of turning seismic activity recorded live from Yellowstone National Park, turning…
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The Geology of Uranium
Today, we talk about Uranium! Uranium is a really interesting element and today we talk about how it's used, a bit about nuclear reactors, then dive into the…
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Yellowstone's Other Volcanoes
In PlanetGeo today, we discuss one aspect of Yellowstone National Park Geology that goes under-appreciated - the Absaroka Volcanics. They are a geological…
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A Geologist in National Defense - Dr. Stefanie Tompkins - Director of DARPA
Today we are extremely honored to get the opportunity to discuss all things geoscience and National Defense with Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, the Director of DARPA!…
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Drove the Chevy to the Levee - The Geology of Levees
Today we talk all about Levees! They are a very important and under-appreciated aspect of our society, infrastructure, and river systems! Here is a link to the…
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New York City is Sinking!
Today, Jesse and Chris discuss a headline that's been making a splash lately. There was a paper recently published that looked into why some areas of New York…
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Office Hours - Back-to-School and Mass Spectrometers
Today, Jesse and Chris take on a couple of listener questions. One is regarding a passion for geoscience and would like to know our opinion on returning to…
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Plants and Meanders - How to Read a Geoscience Paper
Here is a link to the paper we discuss in this episode: In this episode, we talk about meandering streams. Why don't rivers flow in straight paths? As soon as…
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Not All Who Meander Are Lost - Meandering Streams
In this episode, we talk about meandering streams. Why don't rivers flow in straight paths? As soon as a river flattens out, it begins to meander. It’s these…
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The Geology of Oakland - Andrew Alden author of Deep Oakland
In this episode, we interview author Andrew Alden. He wrote Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City. This book is a wonderful read and it offers a unique lens…
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Office Hours - Pollution and Slab Pull
Today, we answer some listener questions in what we call "office hours". We each chose a question for the other to answer. We did not know what questions we…
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Banded Iron Formations - BIFs
Join us today as we discuss one of the more important ancient rock formations - Banded Iron Formations or otherwise known as BIF's in the geologic community…
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Barrier Islands
In this episode, we take on the topic of Barrier Islands. This is a very relevant topic because recent storms have devastated some of these Islands. The…
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Observing Yellowstone National Park - Scientist-in-Charge Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Dr. Mike Poland
In this episode, Chris and Jesse give a live talk at Grand Valley State University. We were invited to speak by the student chapter of the AAPG - American…
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The Shape of Yellowstone - Dr. Mike Poland, Scientist-in-Charge, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com We hope you enjoy, and as usual please send…
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PlanetGeo LIVE at Grand Valley State University
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com In this episode, Chris and Jesse give a live…
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So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 7 - Rocks and Climate
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com Today, we talk about Rocks and climate…
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So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 6 - Interior of the Earth
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com Today, Jesse has a bone to pick with Chris…
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What's Inside That Rock? Rock Man Ethan Penner
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com Rock Man Ethan is a geoscience communicator…
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Mass Confusion - How to Name a Mineral
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com New minerals are being 'discovered' every…
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So You Think You Know Plate Tectonics? Part 5 - Magnetism
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com We hope you enjoy! Like, Subscribe, and leave…
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When Did Plate Tectonics Begin? Plate Tectonics Part 4
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com In this episode, we tackle the issue of when…
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Terroir - The Geology of Wine with Brenna Quigley
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com Do you like wine? Do you know what Terroir…
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So, You Think You Know Plate Tectonics?!? Part 3
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com In today's episode, we continue with our…
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Making Magnets - The Geology of Neodymium
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com You can also check out Jesse's Etsy shop here…
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Elemental Geology 4 - Lithium, Making Batteries (ReRelease)
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com You can also check out Jesse's Etsy shop here…
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Elemental Geology 3 - Critical Minerals with Dr. Nedal Nassar (ReRelease)
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com You can also check out Jesse's Etsy shop here…
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Elemental Geology 2: Iridium, the Meteorite Tracer (ReRelease)
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com You can also check out Jesse's Etsy shop here…
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Elemental Geology 1 - Radon, the Unwelcome Houseguest (ReRelease)
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com You can also check out Jesse's Etsy shop here…
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Volcanoes Revisited: Part 4 - Volcanology Director Tina Neal
Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO! Available here: geo.campcourses.com We are on a break! But, we have so much great…