Category: Maps
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MATANZAS RIVERKEEPER
This map was a volunteer project for Matanzas Riverkeeper—a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to the health and protection of the Guana, Tolomato, Matanzas estuary and watershed through advocacy, education, and community engagement. The purpose was to have a map of the watershed to display at community tabling events and help engage with residents. The watershed is in…
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WAKULLA RECEIPT MAP
This map was designed to be printed on six feet of thermal receipt paper. Why on earth would anyone do that, you ask? After making a ribbon map of the Suwannee River, multiple people (jokingly?) suggested that I look into receipt printers when I explained how I needed to print the Suwannee map out in…
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GREEN ORANGES AND LAND
In the 2022–2023 growing season, the Florida Citrus industry recorded its lowest fruit output since 1935. Increasingly harsh environmental factors—including cold snaps, hurricanes, pests, and disease—have left Florida’s once dominant industry on the edge of collapse and a target for its own ravenous real estate market. This StoryMap covers a brief history of citrus in…
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ST KILDA
St Kilda is a small cluster of islands in the North Atlantic, located about 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The human history of these islands dates back at least two millennia, and many ancient structures can still be found there today—including prehistoric stone rings, the walls and foundations of a medieval…
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SUWANNEE RIBBON MAP
This 12 foot by 2.5 inch ribbon map shows the Suwannee River and its adjacent conservation lands, from the headwaters at Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp to the Florida Gulf Coast. The map was made using Adobe Illustrator, and draws inspiration from similar ‘ribbon maps’ of the mid 19th century—the primary example being the Ribbon Map of…
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2022 HOLIDAY LIGHTS
For the past two seasons, we’ve driven around a nearby neighborhood and recorded the quantity and “quality” of all holiday lights displays. The results for the 2022 season and a comparison with the previous year are shared in this brief StoryMap, below. Apart from being a fun new holiday tradition, I wanted to do this…
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LAKE OKEECHOBEE HAB
A major environmental concern for Florida and a growing number of places across the world is the occurrence of harmful algal blooms. The Sentinel 3 OLCI satellite sensor maintained by EUMETSAT is capable of remotely detecting these blooms, allowing NOAA’s NCCOS to process and upload data for multiple areas of interest in the United States…
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LIGNUMVITAE KEY
Lignumvitae Key, part of the Florida Keys, sits just north of Lower Matecumbe Key, west of Islamorada. It’s protected as a Florida State Park, surrounded by the waters of the Lignumvitae Key Aquatic Preserve, and can only be accessed by boat. The island holds some of the last undisturbed, tropical hardwood hammock found in the…
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EULER SPIRAL CARD
This piece was created for Daniel Huffman’s map projection trading cards project. The idea is to have a set of trading cards for carto-enthusiasts to collect and exchange at conferences, featuring the wide variety of map projections out there. The maps on the cards showcasing these projections are all designed by volunteer cartographers. For my…
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NATIONAL CHAMPION TREES 2021
National Champion Trees are the biggest tree of a particular species based on the height, trunk circumference, and average crown spread. These trees are nominated by the public and maintained in an official register by American Forests. The 2021 list of champions features 561 trees across 39 states. This official register is available via PDF…