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During my placement, I mainly worked within the Water Resource Planning and Water Quality Team which oversees the usage and contamination of water as well as the abstraction of water from the Lincolnshire area. My work involved the South Forty Foot Catchment, using GIS software called Easimap to map abstraction points along the foot. My second project was to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a constructed wetland in these locations. During my placement, I was able to give two major presentations which helped me to develop my personal speaking and time management skills. I also used a variety of software during the placement including Easimap, Excel and EDRMS, and developed a lot of problem-solving and critical skills.

My placement with the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) was fantastic. I really enjoyed myself and found it interesting. It was quite eye opening to get an insight into EMAS and how this relates to Geography, as the research they are doing is extremely important. I am currently working with the Deputy Head of Clinical Audit and Research on an abstract and a poster that is being sent to Madrid for a conference. It is about Cardiac Arrest response times and how this can be improved. I also got the chance to sit in on ‘999’ calls to help me get an insight as to where the data that I have been analysing comes from and to understand the severity of some of the calls.

Working with Lincolnshire Rivers Trust allowed for a real-time look into the different conservation projects that are taking place throughout Lincolnshire and how we as people have a direct impact on the natural environment.  I believe that in doing a placement it has allowed a broader knowledge on how geography links with the outside world. It is important to contextualise what you are learning about during the time of study to allow an in-depth understanding of topics and the importance of what we learn as geographers.

I did my work placement with Delta-Simons, an environmental consultancy company based in Lincoln. Their work focuses on specific sites across the UK, looking at contamination, pollution, and site suitability for building/construction projects - no two sites are the same! When I did monitoring we looked at groundwater levels and gas concentration, all of this is funnelled into the office work, which consists of logging the data collected in the field into a format that can be presented to the client, as well as writing huge reports that encompass everything about a site - from its history, to what has been done to the land surrounding it. All of these elements are used to see if the site can be used for the client's proposal.