Hi everyone, my name is Ryan Daley and I am a senior here at Penn Sate studying professional golf management. I currently live in the Meridian Apartments downtown and have been there since my sophomore year. I grew up in North East Philadelphia and then eventually moved to Yardley which is in the suburbs of Philadelphia. After I complete my studies I plan on pursuing a career in golf club management and merchandising. I am taking class because it satisfies a requirement for my major but I also have an interest in geography. Some other facts about me are I played hockey for almost all my life and played at the collegiate level my freshman year before injuries sidelined me and I decided to transfer to Penn State. I also avidly back country ski and snowboard, and hope to move out to the mountain west in the near future.

After reading all the material in the first module I became aware of the many ways  geography can be useful and it was definitely to my surprise. An issue that was brought up in the module that I am interested in exploring a little more is the climate change problems that our world is facing. A lot of people in the world either have no idea that climate change exists, or refuse to acknowledge it as a legitimate problem. I think that the study and practice of geography can help remedy this lack of knowledge by providing more maps that display the effects that climate change is having on our world. Hopefully these maps can change the way people think about their energy consumption and pollution practices.