Rosie H-Jamieson

Geography enthusiast! Curricular Leader for Social Subjects, Geography Teacher at Balerno High School, Edinburgh.

[Rosie H-Jamieson @Harveyjamieson]

@UndisScot Kirriemuir- the roots

[Shantelle Robinson @Shantelle_JJR]

Fantastic #GAeConf20 talk on 2010 Eyjafijallajökull eruption @DTW_Education this gif shows the movement of the ash cloud I share with pupils. You can see how it interacts with the jet stream which caused flight disruption across Europe 🌍✈️ @The_GA #edutwitter

[Edinburgh Evening News @edinburghpaper]

#StormCiara in #Edinburgh 😲

1)

https://t.co/NkZ8i23yjy

[Edinburgh Evening News @edinburghpaper]

Edinburgh has the fourth highest ratio of tourists to locals in the world and sits well above London 😮😮
https://t.co/DCyiej63nL

[geogabout 🌍 @geogabout]

First they burn the forest, then the cattle arrive and then the soybeans. The global appetite for soy and beef has been driving the Amazon's destruction for decades now. https://t.co/nQi3LdrJnk

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

NASA's AIRS instrument maps carbon monoxide (CO) from fires burning in Brazil's Amazon region.

This time series ⬇️ shows CO high in the atmosphere over Brazil from Aug. 8-22, 2019. Each "day" in the series is made by averaging three day's-worth of data: https://t.co/binaSKsGcm

[Rosie H-Jamieson @Harveyjamieson]

Excellent resource!

[JGHS Geography & ES @jghs_geog_es]

Want to know the latest data about Scotland's demographics? Here you go. #demographics #scotland
https://t.co/STFpR8qzXI

[Rosie H-Jamieson @Harveyjamieson]

@samsmith Are you still in applecross? We are in the old estate office house, come round for a drink!

[geogabout 🌍 @geogabout]

The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest went ⬆️ by a staggering 39% in the year between July 2018 and July 2019.

[Rosie H-Jamieson @Harveyjamieson]

@samsmith @samsmith saw you at Sand today. Hope you enjoyed your swim. X

[This is Geography @thisisgeography]

Interesting comments in The Economist this week. Lots of our recycling ends up in landfill. To offset the carbon used on a flight from Amsterdam to LA you’ll need to sort your rubbish for 60 years!

[internetgeography.net 🌍 @InternetGeog]

The video below shows rates of deforestation between 1990 and 2011 in the 10 countries with the largest areas of primary tropical rainforest. Created using https://t.co/kHKkg5WGeo #geographyteacher

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Did you know that every year run off from urban areas & agriculture in the Mississippi catchment result in a hypoxic or dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico where little marine life can survive.

This year, due to massive rainfall it’s forecast to be around 8,776 square miles!

[World Economic Forum @wef]

Madrid is banning high-polluting vehicles from the city centre https://t.co/gTgRVm9MVZ #spain #climatechange

[Rosie H-Jamieson @Harveyjamieson]

Seas rise, hope sinks: Tuvalu's vanishing islands. Higher climate change case study. #geographyteachers https://t.co/ZWTcq1QKif

[BBC Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch]

The Cairngorms National Park covers an area twice the size of the Lake District! 😍And it is exquisitely beautiful! Enjoy! 💚🤗🌲

#Springwatch

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map shows the radioactive cloud moving through Europe after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Pretty scary. Source: https://t.co/qrhseno6qp