Our MSc Food Security students visited Malaysia in April. See what they got up to! https://youtu.be/t7syBw54rC8
Study Tour in Imlil, Morocco!
Kids helping the soils group do an infiltration test.The MSc in Environmental Protection & Management has been quite the ride from modules were we explored the importance of carbon sinks such as peat bogs to practical courses that challenged us to work as a group on the implementation of food hubs in North Edinburgh. One of the compulsory... Continue Reading →
Berlin Fieldcourse 2016
Fourth Year Undergraduate Berlin Human Geography Fieldcourse
My University Courses Part 1: Earth Dynamics
Updates... Within my blog I shall start two series: One concerning the subjects I took and currently studying. The other, a travel series where I will talk about the places I visited in Scotland and found them interesting. Onto the main part... Earth Dynamics This is a great introductory course for general Geology. It introduces... Continue Reading →
Arran Meteorology Fieldtrip 2016
Hey, my name is Malcolm, I am a 3rd year Geophysics and Meteorology student at Edinburgh. Myself and the rest of the Geophysics and Meteorology crew have recently returned from the Arran fieldtrip, or more formally the Atmospheric Science Field Skills course. First of all, I would just like to say a quick thank you... Continue Reading →
Athens 2016
Photos by Richard Chalkley
Meteorology: weather balloons and avoiding sheep
We've just added a new page to highlight our field trip to Arran as part of our Geophysics and Meteorology degree. Physics and Meteorology student Emily Dowd has written her own blog about it here. As well as putting their new skills into practice, they learned about the pitfalls of taking measurements around sheep… Photo credits... Continue Reading →
Istanbul trip ends, and all seasons in one day in Helmsdale
Our Human Geographers have celebrated the end of their week in Istanbul by a boat trip on the Bosphorus - you can see all the updates from the week on our Istanbul page. Big thanks to Richard Chalkley for keeping us updated and amused! And now we have some geophysicists on the loose up in north-east Scotland in... Continue Reading →
First pics from our Iceland and Bangor field trips
Some stunning landscape pics are coming through from our Physical Geographers in Bangor this week, you can see the latest ones on our Bangor page and see some photos from the previous year too. https://instagram.com/p/7WI-HMkyAP We've also had some photos from our MEarthSci Geology and GPG students out in Iceland on their Field Training course.... Continue Reading →