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To most folks, this may seem an odd title but it best describes the range of topics this podcast series delivers to practicing geologists, geoscientists, or anyone with an interest in Pennsylvania’s geological environment. Produced by the Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists (PCPG), the series includes practical and timely topics, technical and social matters, trends and tips for the office or the field, and interesting subjects and interviews that may remind you of why you chose (or should have chosen) a career in geoscience. So, if you’d like to learn something new, listen to a geologist talk about something they love, or you just need a break from the routine, please join us an…
Russ Losko gives road salt an origin story, if you enjoy geology with a potato-chip joke.
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A patient Erie shoreline explainer connects wave motion to sediment movement along Lake Erie's edge.
The episode treats Erie shoreline geology as a grounded question: how does a spit take shape here? Russ Losko begins with his spring 2025 trip to Erie, then turns the beach into a field lesson on waves, water motion, and sediment.
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Russ Losko frames Presque Isle as Pennsylvania’s rare coastal geomorphology case, tying Lake Erie, a submerged moraine, and a moving spit to one landscape.
Russ Lasko’s PCPG episode traces Pennsylvania’s geology from the Cambrian period about 542 million years ago through the breakup of Pangea and the erosion of the Appalachians.
This episode introduces a podcast series about Pennsylvania's geology, discussing ice ages and the state's geological history.
Russ Losko and Barb Dunst interview Jeffrey Dick, Youngstown State University’s applied geology professor and program coordinator, about educating geologists for employment and graduate study.
A geology podcast episode discussing field safety and a geologist's personal story, set in Pennsylvania.
Tom Wagner chronicles a six-day bicycle journey from Station Square in Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., combining the Great Allegheny Passage with the C&O Canal towpath.