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I am a second year Geography major student at UBC specializing in Environment and Sustainability with a keen interest in Geographic Information Science and various environmental issues. This blog is created to share my GIS lab projects and other course related writings, representing my geographic understanding of the world tied to issues of environment and sustainability. Throughout the learning experience of Geog211 and Geob270, I have acquired a geographically informed perspective to examine global environmental problems and to operate ArcMap and ArcCatalog (two basic GIS applications) to perform GIS analysis. Specifically, concepts and approaches learned in Geog211 allow me to draw my own conclusions about the current and future trends of the dynamic social and environmental systems. Besides, I have recently worked on a number of GIS projects for Geob270, including reviewing raster landsat data of Mt. St. Helen’s volcanic eruption, identifying tsunami affected danger zone within the City of Vancouver, comparing housing affordability between Vancouver and Toronto, assessing the environmental impact of the proposed Garibaldi at Squamish project. Both fields of study have prepared me with essential spatially and geographically analytical skills, and I am excited to integrate them in future research and career.