🍃 Portfolio 🍃

I enjoy making maps that bring environmental or environmental policy data to a broader audience. Several of the maps shown here visualize data from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a resource that supports data, research, and education on paleoenvironments.

Ice Age Tree Explorer: an interactive proportional symbols map of pollen over time
Ice Age Tree Explorer

An online interactive map developed with Leaflet for exploring data on North America's paleoecological history. It expresses the data in two ways: a heat map of all pollen data and proportional symbols showing pollen data at individual sites. You can sequence through time, overlay ice sheets, and retrieve information on science and context.

Infographic about congress voting records and fossil fuel political donations
When Congress Fails the Environment

An infographic about Congressional voting records, fossil fuel political donations, and US residents' attitudes towards the environment, made using IndieMapper and Adobe Illustrator.

Tourist map of the Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts
Three Perfect Days in the Happy Valley

A tourist map showing the fall landscape and attractions of the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts, made using ArcGIS, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.

Slippy Map in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe
Stylized O'Keeffe Interactive Map

A slippy map styled on Georgia O'Keeffe's landscape paintings, created using Mapbox Studio.

Ice Age Mapper interactive map
Ice Age Mapper

An online interactive map built by Scott Farley and updated by me using D3 to visualize the most up-to-date paleoecology data pulled from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database. You can look at individual site data and filter the sites by time, latitude, abundance, and investigator.