I was very pleased to receive an email from the Royal Geographical Society yesterday informing me that my application to be a Chartered Geographer had been approved by the RGS Council. This is recognition of my gradual transition over the years from an ecologist to much more of a geographer. I guess this all started when I moved to Skye in 1990 to begin working as a Research Assistant for Skye Forum and Habitat Scotland on a project to develop a Resource Data Atlas for Skye. Following 4 plus years in Edinburgh as a Management Planner for NTS I moved to Balmacara as Property Manager and that is when my transition to geographer really began. GIS has become a major part of my working life, initially trying to gather together the vast array of information about Balmacara to assist in managing the estate, and then in 2007 when I enrolled in a part-time distance learning MSc in GIS at Leeds, Southampton & Penn State universities. This all concluded in 2010 when I finished the course and since then I have been busy establishing my Rural GIS business.
A major responsibility of being a Chartered Geographer is to promote geography in all its guises. I feel thhat having spent 20 plus years working in the field of conservaton and land management I have gained experience of an enormous range of interacting and related processes and functions that represent the countryside, communities and environment of the Highlands & Islands. I am now very focused upon promoting my business but am also keen to work with school groups to develp the undertsanding of the complex ineractions between the environment and people. I hope to spend soe time workng with pupils at Plockton High School to promote the use of GIS in the school in their studies of Geography and other subject as well. Maybe there will be more on this later
A major responsibility of being a Chartered Geographer is to promote geography in all its guises. I feel thhat having spent 20 plus years working in the field of conservaton and land management I have gained experience of an enormous range of interacting and related processes and functions that represent the countryside, communities and environment of the Highlands & Islands. I am now very focused upon promoting my business but am also keen to work with school groups to develp the undertsanding of the complex ineractions between the environment and people. I hope to spend soe time workng with pupils at Plockton High School to promote the use of GIS in the school in their studies of Geography and other subject as well. Maybe there will be more on this later
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