Hello everyone, my name is Tyler Davies. I am a sophomore here at Penn State. I currently live in Barnesville, PA, where I grew up my whole life. The career I am pursuing is Early Childhood Education which will allow me to teach young children from PreK through grade four. My entire life I had the dream of teaching young children, and I can’t wait to start molding young minds. One of my interests about this course is to learn more about how deforestation affects the climate change. An interesting fact about myself is I just had rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder over the winter break. I injured my shoulder a few years ago in high school on the baseball field that no doctor diagnosed. As the years went by, the pain got worse and I decided to get surgery to finally see what was wrong. With this injury it should make this online course very interesting as I can only type with my left hand.
A problem that can be addressed by geography is food shortages in certain parts of the world. By understanding the human impacts on the environment and the environment impacts on humanity, people can preserve better land that will provide more food. Knowing the compounds of the soil, people can make the changes that are necessary to make the ground more fertile. By taking care of the land they will also be taking care of themselves. A good example would be if people made water unpolluted the water would then provide better plants and healthier animals for human consumption. So, when people have a positive impact on the environment the environment in return will have a positive impact on the people.
Hi Tyler! My name is Kristina and I’m a senior here at PSU. I think that it is awesome that you are an early education major, I am too! It is such an amazing and rewarding career path and I can’t wait to become a teacher! I agree with you on your comments about food shortages. I believe that if people were more aware of the human impacts on the environment there would be a lot less issues!
Hi Tyler! My name is Omar. I commend you on writing using only your left hand, I hope it gets better for you soon! Your blog post caught my attention because you talk about using geography to solve food shortage problems and I talk about using geography to detect spatial patterns (http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/01/18/omar-montasser-getting-to-know-you/). I think this is related because visualization on maps can help us detect places where food shortages are occurring. Then, we can analyze the properties of these places which can lead to identifying causes of these food shortages.
Hi Tyler! My name is Emily and I thought it was interesting that you are only able to type with your left hand for the time being. I hope it gets better for you soon! I thought your comment on food shortages was very relevant towards this class and is something I am interested in learning more about also. Here is a link to my blog post, where I discussed the issue of food insecurity: http://sites.psu.edu/geog30/2016/01/14/about-me-2/. I agree that if we could utilize our land better we could help alleviate this issue.