I work at the intersection of ecology, the geosciences, and data visualization.
My current work focuses on tropical paleoecology data mobilization to study ecoclimatic sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to glacial-interglacial climate change
I created Range Mapper, a new set of online animated visualizations of plant taxon range shifts since the Last Glacial Maximum, using data from Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Carto VL, a Javascript library for big data web-mapping and analysis. The associated workflows allow paleoecologists to create their own proportional symbol maps of paleoecological data from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database. Published in Open Quaternary. See my AGU 2021 Poster for more details.
My Masters project involved compiling a history of palynology maps, linking palynology concepts with geospatial education skills, and running a user needs survey on two paleoecology visualization tools, Ice Age Mapper and the former Pollen Viewer.
George, A.K., Roth, R.E., Widell, S. and Williams, J.W., 2023. Range Mapper: An Adaptable Process for Making and Using Interactive, Animated Web Maps of Late-Quaternary Open Paleoecological Data. Open Quaternary, 9(1), p.15.DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.114
Bley, K., et al. incl. A.K. George, 2022. A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice. GeoHumanities, 8(1), 344-365.
George, A., 2017. Investigating the distribution and diversity of rare endemic forest plant species in the eastern United States.
Bellemare, J, et al. including A.K. George. (in preparation), “The distribution and diversity of endemic forest plants in the eastern United States reflects impacts of past climate change and influence of ecological traits.” Ecological Monographs.