by jeffg
12. February 2012 10:25
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Posted by Jeff Guynes
Senior, Aviation
Being an aviation major, it is important to know about the weather and environment around you. This gives me the chance to take a fair amount of geography classes, and I am in two this quarter. Geography isn’t just the study of where things are located on the planet, it is also the study of weather and our environment. I am taking both meteorology and environmental geography this quarter. Both classes have assigned midterm projects that really allow me to learn more about a certain topic.
In the meteorology class, we are tasked to look at a significant weather event from the recent past (tornado, hurricane, blizzard, etc.) and look more in depth to the conditions that caused the event. My group has decided to look at a tornado from Tuscaloosa, Arizona from a few years back. It is really a neat assignment to be able to determine the causes to this significant event.
In the environmental geography class, we were assigned to research food miles. Food miles are how far your food has traveled from its point of origin to your plate. We had to compare foods from Kroger to the local foods at the Athens Farmer’s Market. This was also a neat assignment. So many of the foods we think are “fresh” at supermarkets are actually one or two weeks old because of the distance they had to travel. This causes a lot of other effects like the burning of fossil fuels by the shipping of the food.
These are two of the neatest projects I have done at OU as a student. I really enjoy this about the classes at OU. It isn’t only lecture and test, but you get some real experience with the topic too.
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