YSJ Geography

New blog post! Following their module 'Sustainability: Global Environmental Challenges', year 2 students Mia & Palo arranged a visit to Allerton Waste Recovery Park to find out more.

Thalia Waste Management - Student Site Visit - Geography at YSJ By Mia Wright On the 21st May 2024, Palo Wood and I (second-year Environmental Geography BSc students at York St. John University) were invited to visit the Allerton Waste Recovery Park outside Knaresborough. Operated by Thalia Waste Management, this site…

YSJ final day culminated with our visit to - always a cracking place to visit 🌍

We're lucky to have St Nick's on our doorstep!

The YSJ uni Grounds Team does some fantastic work to support biodiversity. This morning saw the release of over 40 Tansy Beetles at the uni, the culmination of 6 years of work to establish habitat for them. The aim is that this creates a Tansy Beetle 'ark', protected from the flooding that can affect populations along the River Ouse. YSJ Geography students & staff will be able to help monitor this population in the years to come, to see how it grows and spreads. 💚🪲🌿

And a lovely last pic from the Belfast field trip, as the ferry approached Liverpool yesterday morning

Dr Ben Garlick, Belfast leader, demonstrates the size of Samson & Goliath, the famous shipbuilding cranes in the Harland & Wolff shipyard 😮🚢😀

More photos from Belfast and the Isle of Skye 🤩😍

Meanwhile, third years more into physical geography are on the Isle of Skye, doing some coastal ecology today (with a bit of geology added in)

More field trip photos...from Belfast we have the Titanic Memorial, and Billy and the big blue fish (sounds like a great story, huh?)

Day 1 of the Belfast field trip is orientation, finding our way around the city & visiting key places. This has included a stop at the peace wall dividing the Falls Road and Shankill Road. YSJ Geography lecturer Jude Parks (a Belfast native) adds her own message.

Spring time = season! Our third years are all away this week, in either Belfast or the Isle of Skye. Students on the human geog trip had a fabulous view of the lights of Liverpool last night as the ferry departed for Belfast. 🚢🤩

Here is an opportunity to contribute to a project called Crowd2Map and map Tanzania. Tanzania is not very well mapped, particularly in rural areas. The Crowd2Map project will make a real difference both for aid workers and everybody to get around. All that you need to be able to do is the Internet. The team at Crowd2Map will really appreciate some more help. Visit crowd2map.org and check out the how-we-map page.