What happened last year at the Careers in Geography Day?
In 2008, more than 300 high school students from across Queensland and northern New South Wales attended UQ’s Careers in Geography Day program to explore geography and related disciplines at university level. Workshops covered disciplines such as ecology, demography, environmental management, regional and town planning and spatial science with topics such as:
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“Earth Monitoring”
“Who wants to be a billionaire?”
Examine the future of population
“The changing face of Brisbane”
Discover the changes that have occurred in Brisbane over recent years and address why they have occurred
“Your Demographic Future"
Toss away the crystal ball and let a qualified demographer help plan your future in the world you will be living in. Walk through your demographic future and join in discussions about marriage, families, jobs and travelling overseas
“Trees, ice, corals & swamps”
What can they tell us about past climate variability?
“Past Environments of Queensland”
Examine the different environments of three different periods: Jurassic (160 million years ago); Quaternary (1 million years ago) and Holocene (10,000 years ago) from three locations in Queensland through fossils and investigate the major influences on the environment for these three different periods
“Brisbane: The City of the Future”
An interactive workshop where students were asked to provide their opinions about the future of Brisbane
"Asia in the Driver's Seat"
Asia conjures the exotic allure of ancient cultures, images of cities choking on pollution, poverty, food, sun, beaches and tropical forest.
Find more of the geography, people, culture and cities of Asia in this session “Monitoring seagrass and coral reefs using satellites”
Examine how GIS is used to map, monitor and protect marine environments
“Planning for Sustainable Mobility”
Explore the impacts of increasing mobility and ways in which communities might move towards more sustainable mobility
“Eco-efficiency: How industry can help the environment and save money!”
Examine how Industry has an important role to play in improving the sustainability of our society by using resources more efficiently and avoiding wastes
"Ecology, Planning, and Biodiversity offsets"
Biodiversity offsetting or mitigation is one emerging way that Australian wildlife can be protected from inevitable and necessary urban (residential, commercial, industrial) development and commonly begs questions such as: How much habitat is enough? Protect what species? and Where can the habitat be placed?
“Explore the World”
Learn how to install and use an internet-based Geographic Information System (GIS) to explore Brisbane and the rest of the world.
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