Geography Virtual Information Session

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So you get to read my slide here while your waiting. Did you think geography was Justin? Be learning the capital?

My colleague Katie Finlayson made this.

I'm using it because a lot of people don't know what your fear, but they don't realize that you can major in geography and they.

Assume that geography is just memorizing capitals inflows. That's not at all what we do.

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Hi Alisa.

I hope everybody is well.

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OK, I'm gonna get going so I started with this slide. It's what we call are not average slide my colleague Katie Finlayson who is a cultural geographer. She came up with this. We're kind of constantly thinking about how to explain to people what geography is because so many people don't realize that you could do a major in geography and I'm English. And in Britain geography is really important. I've been studying geography as a separate subject since I was eleven off and on.

And in Britain and in British Commonwealth countries, geography is taught as a really important subject, and people, I think understand it better, and so this is about us saying that we don't memorize Maps. There are a lot of really funny things that people will say when their asked well, what are you going to do with a geography major or or what is Jerry? Does that mean you look at rocks? Now? We don't look at rocks were more interested in people than just landscapes. But we study landscapes too.

And so this is about all the different things that we value in my Department at Mary Washington and then here's my next slide, because hey, have you notice how important geography is lately? There all these Maps. I mean, it's kind of depressing, but at the same time, if you didn't map where cover cases were, or where mortality rates were, or if you didn't realize that there's a difference between raw numbers and numbers per population.

Or if you wanted to look at where people are most affected by this disease. COVID-19 you're looking, then at socioeconomic status or food deserts or air pollution is thought to play a role. So where have all those things occur? Those are all geographic questions people are studying. How?

Flight patterns have changed given the lack of airplanes. Given the lack of travel, those are Maps people are studying how evolution has altered. That's a geographic subject, right? Geography is suddenly incredibly relevant. All these things have Maps, front and center. And Gosh, I hope that that translates into something that is very good for us. We have long talked about teaching a medical, geography class. Medical geography is an area of geography.

And my colleague Don Balon is actually in a graduate certification class in public health because she's long been interested in public health. But she doesn't feel like she has a lot of expertise and Mary Washington has a nursing program and so she felt like she wanted. If she was going to teach. Nurses have a little bit of expertise, a little bit more knowledge than just from reading some books, and so she's actually halfway through a graduate certificate class in public health.

Who knew who knew it would be this relevant?

So on this side I have a list of things that geographers might be interested in, and, again, a lot of the time students come to us and say, well, I didn't know that was geography. Maybe I'm preaching to the choir, maybe I don't need to say this to you guys, but this is all of the different things that we do and they are enormously varied. They range from more hard science, physical science to completely. Cultural issues were only people are involved versus only physical Sciences involved.

And so sometimes we will say, Well, you're interested in International Studies or studying abroad, or you're interested in history and culture. Maybe that's too ography. Maybe you should take some geography classes and see if this is what you like. If this would be a good major for you, our students come to us, not usually because they know they want geography, and so you know we appeal to all kinds of people. We embrace the idea of geography as a big tent to discipline.

When you go to a National Geography Conference, there are all kinds of people there, and it's because you do so much different types of geography and even within my Department we do a lot of different kinds of geography. I think of us having you know, two ends of a line to arms and on one side there's the very scientific physical science side, and I actually teach on that side. I'm a Journal file agist and on the other side there is gender studies.

Or people studies nothing to do with the physical environment and over here dot Nicholas wants nothing to do with humans and that's just within my Department. So I've created this chart as a way of saying we do all of these things. That's down here on the other side, and then we do all of these other things up here on the green side in between we teach a lot of different methods. There's no one way. There's no correct way to study geography, and so we will do field methods in the appropriate subject.

Whether it's writing questionnaires and going out and serving people, or whether it's pulling data from the computer or whether it's going out and measuring the stream or taking soil samples, that would be what I'm doing.

We do qualitative methods and quantitative methods with the qualitative GIS, which is a little bit weird. Little bit different, but my colleague Stephen Hannah will do studies where he will turn location, GIS points and attributes into study. Even though we're just looking at words were doing textual analysis. So you can do qualitative GIS you can engage with the map in a different way. You can do participatory GIS where you're asking.

Some persons on participant questions about how they interact with the space with the map we also teach.

Some regional geography classes, and so retail geography comes in and out of fashion. Currently is not very fashionable as places don't teach any regional geography at all. But it's very useful way of looking at the world and we teach North America as a intermediate level class at 200 level class in two different areas, the East and the West. And then we have a detailed class on Latin America and the Caribbean and another one on the Middle East. So we do all kinds of different types of geography and sometimes will have a visitor.

And that person might teach something completely different. We taught Europe, the region of Europe that lasts for an, so it depends on what else is going on. But there might be special topics classes as well.

Within my Department, we've got 10 full-time tenured faculty and usually around about 5 add junk. So through the whole year we might end up with five adjuncts. We have 90 ish majors and that kind of areas a little bit, but it seems to stick around that number and roughly 30 majors graduate each year, and so there's this kind of rotating stream of geography majors. Most everybody does something special, either an internship on individual study or study abroad course.

Um, and you know, we've tried counting and it varies from sort of 86 to 92 or something like that. Most people take something like 99%. Take a GIS class, try out one GIS class you're not required to teach GIS classes in our geography major. We recognize that there's so many different methods in geography that were not favoring one over the others, so some people are are computer phobic and that is perfectly fine. You don't have to do GIS, but it's incredibly valuable, and so we recommend that even if you just take one class, then you can have a conversation with them.

People in your office who do do GIS and and that was very valuable, but being able to do an internship or being able to do an individual study is really, really useful. It get your feet wet. It gives you some really good grounding. It might teach you what you don't want so that you know that you do not want to drive in this field or you might end up with a paid internship for you, know two or three summers while you're doing your undergraduate degree, and that is absolutely fantastic. You know, that's really truly what we want to happen. An independent study is where you decide.

I'd like to learn more about this and and you might do a readings crossed with a professor where you and the professor decide to read these couple of books in the series of articles on some subject that you are interested in that the professor has some expertise in, or you may actually have a project and so we've ongoing project for another third student. Now out it a natural area preserve nearby, or whether students are collecting precipitation data and stream flow data.

And looking at soils and looking to see you know why do the streams do this particular thing that they're a little bit unusual, but that's an ongoing project, for example, that somebody might do with study.

Lots of our majors are double majors, so they major in geography and then and something else, and there's a huge range. Sometimes it's something like Environmental Science. It might be music, it might be English, ideal language. Some things are more common than others, but you know, there's everything in anything international affairs.

It's the other comment when he start preservation, so lots of different ways of doing this. Many of our majors also in the GIS certificate. There's different rules for overlap between a major and a minor, but the GIS certificate doesn't follow any of those roles, so you can have as much overlap as you want to. Not every single JS class will count in geography, but the majority of them well, and so if you're interested in GIS and you want that skill undeveloped are really good thing to be taking.

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And then we help for a Master of Science and where the only were the only program in the College of Arts and Sciences that offers a Masters degree. So the College of business office won the college education offers one and then we do and we decided to offer our master science degree because if we didn't in our region, some other school would have done. And when we were planning it and starting it, William and Mary offered a Masters degree in Washington DC.

And they have stopped doing that because it's so hard to do something remotely. But we're in a phenomenal location for GIS and geospatial analysis, and so our undergraduates may apply when they are juniors to take graduate classes in their senior year, specifically in GIS, not a regular geography Masters degree. Here's just some pictures because I like this having pictures of my students of all of these pictures are off campus, so their field Trip Pictures.

And you might do a field trip in town. We take our students to a local park to look at stream flow and erosion and deposition and that sort of thing in the spring every year there's a geographies of children class that goes to an area in a local city nearby.

That the very green looking one is in Guatemala. One of my colleagues talked about and take students to Guatemala every spring on a short-term study abroad and the dark looking one. Here is, I believe it's in a coal mine in West Virginia.

From a field methods class where the students are learning to make observations and they do some surveys and some questionnaires in that class and then this other one. These students are in a.

Proglacial deposit, right? So it's a quarry that that is actually a bunch of glacial sediments in there somewhere in upstate New York. On ecclesiology, morphology, field trips are very physical geography. Field trip.

Within the major, we specify three areas that I consider to be thematic areas. They're not required by the University, they're not recognized by the University, but they really help students to kind of focus and think about what area of geography do I want, and a lot of students will come in, and they'll say, well, I want to specialize in GIS. Well, you can't. That's a method. It's not a thematic area, it's not a content area, it's a method you have to apply GIS to something. I.

Refer to hang in your GIS on something and so you need a framework on which to hang your GIS and if you're interested in big picture things. So the globalization area that you can see here on the screen is like the big picture that includes classes like geopolitics or global migration, migration politics, recent place, big picture things, a lot of our regional classes are in that area.

And so you might be thinking to go into intelligence, work and then you want that background and you want to be able to understand how people and culture work and how they interact. And then you're finding GIS data to hang onto that subject area in the community development of Culture area that is more local, perhaps more regional. Alot of the students who end up going into planning, take that or specialize in that subject area.

For planning, if you really want to planning the air, if you really want a planning career, you need a Masters degree in planning and we offer some planning classes. We bring in a former student who has a Masters in planning. Here's the County supervisor at local counting. I so he works in the planning area. Historic preservation also teaches a lot of planning classes and so you can actually couple together.

A real specialty within your major.

Within your degree program that is in planning and then those students will go on and do planning Masters degrees, but also in the community development culture, you could specialize in development. You might specialize in non-profit work. You might end up going to South America and working with a nonprofit. I haven't understand there at the moment who is working with a small group, so it depends on what your interest is, an how you're going to use your geography to apply.

That interest in the nature and SOC area? That's our physical science or environmental **** morphology, or process type work. Or, you know, we get students who think that they wanted to go into geology or Environmental Science, and then they decide. Yet it's too sciency, there's not enough people, and this involves the people.

As well as the science aspect, and so that's where that would hang. And so if you are interested in GIS to do with climates and vegetation, then maybe you would take more classes in the nature and society fill field and hang your GIS on that part. As I said, none of these are required, they're not recognized by the University that not only recognized in the catalog as a required thing that you have to declare, but they do help our students to focus their classes and two.

Think about what kind of career they're going to have and what kind of specialty, and then we would help you build your resume to say, yeah, no. This was my focus as your resume. You can put whatever you want on it and you took these classes and maybe you didn't fulfill a minor, but you did build this focus of classes. That is your own interest and everything is perfect for that. We really want to encourage you to have your own level of autonomy within the major. This is what the major looks like. I've struggled really hard to build a diagram to.

Create the major. I kind of want to put the capstone at the top. The capstone is your culminating experience, right? It's the last thing that you do actually take it in your fall semester.

In order to be able to do an honors thesis in your spring semester, if that's what you wanted to do so you would end up with this senior seminar which is writing and speaking intensive so it satisfies general education requirements. And together there's any number of different ways to get there. You might know that you want to come in and do geography, so this may be for you because you're here listening to me that you come in, and perhaps you took an AP human geography class, and so you already have this requirement out the way.

Or maybe you took a world regional class at a Community College or something. So sometimes people come in with either of those requirements or you might take that in your first semester and then you'll go on and do our science classes. We do require to science classes. They will satisfy the natural science general education requirement and their lab classes.

You might sort of progress in a logical way through these classes to end up at the capstone, but honestly, I'm just as likely to see students coming in because they took an elective because it fulfilled some other general education requirement, or how they couldn't get into anything else because they registered late and so they took North America. And here they are.

Oh, that was interesting and so then they take another geography class, but it might not be in a logical sequence, so it kind of doesn't matter. We are interested in having our students choose their own path and giving you a huge amount of autonomy and University of recently reduced its general education requirement. I was really pleased about that because again, it allows the students more choice. It allows the students to have more flexibility in the degree and more.

Saleability in terms of the credits to be a double major in a minor or certificate, you know you can do whatever you want. It's your career. It's your academic career and you should kind of control it. What else would I say about this introduction? Two methods classes, and I've just given a couple of examples here. These aren't meant to be set in stone. Most everybody does take one GIS class, but you don't have to if you want the certificate, then perhaps you take introduction to GIS and then spatial analysis is your two methods classes.

Um, if you absolutely don't, you decide you take a GIS class and you hate it and you'll do some kind of field methods. Or you might do the geographies of children class that counts as a methods class, or you might take our introduction to statistics class or intro quantitative methods class, and then do qualitative methods. Know GIS at all, right? You don't have to. You're not stuck in one particular path and you're going to talk to your advisor and say, OK, yeah, I like this. I don't like that I'm going to find my own way. One intermediate level Class 2 advanced thematic classes and again.

The semantic classes or the content classes are not methods classes, and then two electives and electives classes can be any of these, right? Any combination of any of these. We always offer three senior seminars so that there's one in each of those three areas. The nature and SOC, the community development and culture, and then the globalization, so that students can find a seminar that's interesting to them.

Here's some students on campus, right? We use our campus environment. This is little tiny Creek that runs along by the library and will do physical geography there. These students are measuring stream flow.

In this next one, this is Dobby, who is working out the volume of settlement that have been has been wrote it out of a gully. Then Valley is also on campus. We do have pH shooters under other undergraduate students upperclassmen.

Who are available for the introductory physical geography classes and also for the introductory GIS class?

To help students of their stock to help with homework. To help with labs, we do give our students 24/7 access to the laboratories in Monroe Hall so that you are able to go in. Students will have impromptu study sessions or club meetings or going right all over the board like Bobby is doing in this picture.

This one is our GIS lab, so this is the geography GIS lab that we control their 18 workstations because a cap of 18 is a good size of class. We don't want too many people in each class and every workstation has two monitors 'cause it's better if you've got two monitors is just a whole lot easier to get your work done and then this class is just an outside class 'cause they were fed up and they wanted to go outside and it was a nice day. This is a couple of years ago. I think it's the quantitative methods class.

Witch Doctor Fenlason teachers and you know they were working on projects in small groups and they went over to one of the areas that hasn't had some tables and they just decided to do their work outside that particular day.

You know there's the opportunity for informality, and that's a good thing. We do have learning objectives. You know, we want everybody in the major to have a good understanding of these basic geographic concepts and we have decided that these are they and you would learn them over and over again. You know there's value in repetition, not necessarily in a conscious way, but there's a class in which we do assess these sort of the 200 level and then at the moment it's optional but a class when you're a senior.

Where we would again assess these learning outcomes to see how we're doing with respect to what we think we want to be doing. We do want everybody to be able to understand evidence or data, and that's fairly easy if you're talking about GIS data, and it's actually fairly easy if you're talking about physical geography, data measurements of a stream, something like that. Geography is also in the social Sciences, and so sometimes students will have a struggle thinking about evidence or data when they're just doing a literature review.

But there is evidence and data in that too, and so we really want to make sure that you're able to find it and understand it and critique it. We want everybody to look at Maps. That doesn't mean again, GIS, but you should be able to read, interpreting, critique a map, and so there are Maps throughout everything, of course.

Theoretical framework one particular approach, technique or method. Again, it doesn't have to be any one particular thing. We just want students to recognize. Oh yeah, I'm good at this. This is my area and this is the method that is appropriate for this area. We are encouraging portfolio building. We're encouraging the use of Mary Washington's domain of ones own program where everybody gets to create a web page.

So you could write on your resume your own personal URL and you could give that to your employer and then they could go and look at your work and we think it's a good idea to have your writing samples and your class projects and your improvement are visible and available to an employer by that program. And so that's something that we're very very aware of.

Address of geographical issue in a simple way that ask and answer geographic question. So what is this? Why is it here? How did it get here? Geographers tend to state the obvious, and geographers tend to ask a question about a data set. They might map it and look for patterns then then might try and explain those patterns in order to come up with the process behind those patterns. And again it doesn't have to be GIS, it could be.

At all you know you could be asking people survey questions, but you would then perhaps map the response and find a pattern based on that response. We hope that every single geography major has an area of expertise or feels that they have an area of expertise and so we are hoping to lead them to that kind of knowledge and that kind of confidence, and it often doesn't come until your senior.

Yeah, and so you know some students are thinking in the senior. Gosh, I don't know what am I going to do. I'm going to go out in the world and I need a job and so on and so we are there to help you with a great director for our Career Center. The Career Center people are also there to help you, but we want to know our students. We pay a great deal of attention to our students were kind of known for being very, very hands on and our students will tell us things and we're ready to listen.

We want to spend time with you and we want to be helping you getting that job and then following up with us afterwards. What happened in your job text my student today telling me that.

Um opportunities within the Department. We take students every fall. 2 original conference. It's the Southeastern Division of the Association of American geographers, and when the Association of American geographers conferences nearby occasion, it's in DC. And so then will actually everybody packs up and goes to DC for a week or overnight, several times. But there are also local conferences, specialized conferences, there's a Virginia Humanities Conference, right?

If we can get you to a conference to present and you're ready to do it, then great will help you go. We have funding. We have very generous alumni and we are allowed to use one certain fund to buy data or equipment or to have you travel somewhere to collect some data to help you do a study abroad. And so we're able to do those kinds of things within reason, of course, but we encourage that any kind of study abroad.

Is absolutely fantastic and you should do it.

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You can be a part of a professor's research team, so for example, Doctor Fenlason did a whole bunch of studies on ugly food and how people do and do not buy food. They worked with our local Wegmans store. They worked with the farmers market and it worked with.

And it was the, UM, shoppers, one of the other local supermarkets. And they went in. And they did studies. And they talked to produce managers. And, you know, people never take the last Apple in the basket or people don't like the ugly potato or whatever it is. You know, why not? What happens about that? What if you priced it differently? So a research team doctor Hannah has had generations of students for about five years. He's been working on.

Um, memory and commemoration of enslaved peoples at plantations. And so this year they were doing the presidential plantations. And so this spring during spring break they were at Mount Vernon. Doing surveys with people. And this was this huge national project that was funded by the National Science Foundation. You can do you.

And research project I talked about it a little bit before we absolutely encourage internships. I've got a number of students who are still working their internships and they're able to work remotely right now, which is fabulous.

There's an honest thesis program within geography so that you can graduate with an honest thesis with honors in geography. We also are members of the international geographical honest SOC, which is Gamma Theta Epsilon. Some of our students come in into the Honors Program, and so those students are in an honest program anyway at Mary Washington and they may be geography majors and they may end up doing their honors thesis for their honest program capstone. Or they may end up doing.

Some other kind of a project for their honest program capstone. We have engaged alumni. We have students, former students who want you to succeed 2 weeks ago. One of my graduating seniors was hired by one of my majors. You graduated in 2014 and you know I introduced them and I gave recommendations and of all the people he interviewed John Hiatt, Jamie, so that was that it's really, really good. Sometimes we will bring along my back to campus and they will give.

Information sessions or how I got to this particular career and it was drug arrests have hugely different careers or they'll employ you as an intern or they'll help you too.

Introduced into a particular field, this particular area of interest.

Say that if you want something to happen, then I ask you know if you are interested in something in particular, let us know. Maybe we can figure it out. Maybe we know somebody who's expertise in that area and ask if you don't talk to us when we don't know why would you come to Mary Washington? 'cause Mary Washington's really good people don't know what it is and people don't know where it is and people think where private instead of public and all that good stuff. But we have small classes we have challenging classes. We have interactive classes. We've got teachers. You really, truly want to see.

Want to see you succeed? It's a nice community. It's a really nice environment to be in and yet it's tough, right? It's not like it's going to be a walk in the park. You're actually going to learn things, critical thinking, and communication. Employers want a liberal arts background. They may not know that they want it, but they truly do and we can help you get to that because we're giving you this really solid background. Our students are also really well prepared for Graduate School and trying to feel like I mentioned before, but I'm not sure that.

I had to include a map. Here's a map.

We're halfway between DC and Washington and this corridor is excellent for GIS drops in particular, specially up as you go further North, but it's just a fabulous location. You are so close to things.

You know just the location alone. You should think about coming here. OK, here I'm bragging this organization, which is called college factual, ranks us the best geography program in the southeast. The number 10 nationally and went number one in the southeast, which is phenomenally remarkable. I said we have about 19 ages, most liberal arts colleges don't offer geography. Geography doesn't exist. It other most other liberal arts colleges.

Um within our coplac group of geography of colleges, ones that we belong in. This sort of organizational group with about two of them offered geography. You know, it's just a very, very rare field for a liberal arts college.

And swear particularly big for that. You know, we're not very big in terms of Mary Washington majors, but we've got a very substantial geography program. We are award winning so our students went awards and our faculty win awards. And, you know, we're good. And we know we're good. And it's OK to know you're good. I've put in here at the end. Just some pictures I've got loads of pictures of people doing things in their classrooms. Yes, you're going to have to. Here's where you're sitting in class and you're sitting in the same seat.

And you're sitting there and you're listening to a lecture. But you're also going to have days where you're working on a project. This is not finlaysons class, and you can see that they've got those giant post. It notes this particular classes, senior seminar and their subject area is Southern Foodways and then looking at how food leads you to understand culture, particularly in the South. And of course that includes race. It includes place. It includes migration.

It includes all kinds of different things, and food is the way in. So food is the way that Gotta Fenlason has led into this particular subject. This is doctor Bowen in her class and everybody's off and looking at it. If you can see what she's doing, but she's got all these pieces of string and it's it's impairments. It's called environment and society I think.

And I think she's talking about food webs, and so they literally built a web out of food. This is Britney. She gave a presentation at research and creativity day last spring, and so we have a large format plotters and making a real hard poster is sometimes a really nice way of capping your work. Britney was completing the GIS certificate as well as her degree in geography here.

And this is just a laugh, right? This is a pretty standard, uhm?

Physical geography lab. This was my class last fall and they are heating sand and at the same time looking at the impact of Sonangol and of water wet soil versus dry soil and also as depth and surface versus the substance its surface of a soil. So there's different ways of introducing ideas concepts that you need to understand, but if you engage with them more deeply that is easy to understand and then you don't have to memorize it.

So this is my last slide. Uhm, we emphasize doing geography and we try hard to get students to have experiences so that they understand things better. We try hard to keep our majors involved and to get everybody to really engage and enjoy what they're doing because there's no point. If you're not enjoying it. So that's it. That's what I've got.

I'm gonna try and look at this scroll bar here and see if anybody has any questions. You get to type questions.

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I spoke about GIS on Friday at one of these seminars and afterwards I realized that somebody asked a question about study abroad. So I'm just going to briefly talk about that. While you think about your question and you can type it in, I was an international student for my 2 graduate degrees. My Masters degree I did in Newfoundland, Canada and my PhD. I did in California, UCLA. So I have 3 degrees from three different countries, which is phenomenal. Fantastic for a geographer, right?

I love being an international student. I had a really good time and anybody who can study abroad, you should do it. You should try and do it. There's different ways of doing study abroad. You can go away for an entire semester and so one of my students, Jillian. She went to Thailand last fall and part way through the fall semester. She was loving it and she decided she was on the other side of the world anyway, so she did spring in Australia. So she did two different study abroad programs and she and I emailed back and forth.

What happens is that you would be presented with a program of classes and you get to choose what you're going to take, and you would then work with your study abroad advisor and your academic advisor, and then the chair of the Department. So if you were taking a geography class, I would say this class is going to transfer to Mary Washington's this class. Or yes, you can take it. Yes, it's geography, but it's not equivalent to anything we teach, and therefore it's not going to come in as one of those. But it'll be an elective.

And if you were taking a language class then you'd work with the chair of the language Department. And if you were taking a history class, you do it with the Chairman History Button, right? So which have a chair but most chairs know what you're doing? We understand what you're doing would support what you're doing, and so learning it in some different way in some different place is always going to be beneficial. And for geography, I would bend over backwards. Anything that you take in a different place is sort of going to be geography in away and so for Jillian, she met certain requirements. She was able to get her minor finished.

She's going to take her at her last class is this coming year, so she went away for her junior year. If you can't go away for an entire semester, then maybe you can go away for part of the summer. So there are some particularly language study abroad's that happened in the summer. I'm or you might go away on a really short term. Study abroad. Some students went with doctors or chaskey from the Environmental Science Department to South Africa over winter break last winter break, right? So 1920.

And so they started Idaho December, something they flew to South Africa. They came home before classes started, and then they met with her for the first 8 weeks of the semester. So it was kind of half the semester long of classes because they'd already done the field work ahead of time.

Uhm, and then my colleague, Doctor Bowen. She takes students to Guatemala every spring break and so it's 10 days in Guatemala. You do a whole bunch of work before you go and then you finish up your projects afterwards. In the second half of the semester, and those are less expensive. South America is going to be less expensive than say Europe, and so you know there are different opportunities.

But anytime you can study abroad as a really cool thing to do.

OK, I still don't see any questions funny questions.

Otherwise I get to sit here and sort of talk to myself.

So what did I not cover?

Hum.

OK, well that was that.

If you have any questions, you're welcome to shout. You can also email me the Geography Department web page is very well fleshed out. I've recently started building out the GIS web page, which is slightly different and have a whole bunch of information that I'm going to add to that.

But I did put some panoramic pictures of our space, as well as more pictures of students doing things onto the geography Department webpage. Devious way to find that is to just go to youngw.edu and then type geography in the search box and will get there.

But I'll give you a few minutes.

And this is my spare bedroom just to let you know that some of the feel bad, you know when that folds out of the wall. So when my mom comes to say, my mom from England comes to stay and This is why she usually is my desk. But then you need to flip the bed out in the way which is.

I feel very lucky to have a spare bedroom. Very weird. We have the zoom meetings and you get to see people space and other people are, you know in the real bedroom or they're sitting on the bed or whatever.

Rather odd.

But I do wish I had a giant map hanging on the top of it or something real.

Draw one.

OK folks.

I feel bad because I missed that question before last time when I did it.

So I don't see any other questions, so feel free to turn of- to leave the party.

Unless you got something you want to know, you can always email me family.

OK well see nothing.

Sing and I see nothing.

OK, have a great day everybody.

Happy Monday.