Tag: Florida
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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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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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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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ST VINCENT ISLAND
I have never actually set foot on St. Vincent Island, but it’s sandwiched between a lot of places I love and close enough to home that whenever I open up a web map I can usually see it sitting there, just on the periphery. The stark ridges crossing the island from end to end are…
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APALACHICOLA RIVER TABLE
For this project, I upcycled a tabletop found in a dumpster and added a hand-carved “map” of the Apalachicola River. The design takes the river and arranges it into a spiral, with the headwaters at the table’s center. I then documented the process in a StoryMap called From Trash to Topographic!, which also highlights the…
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CAPE SAN BLAS
A remote stretch of sand home to crumbling lighthouses, ancient shell middens, Confederate saltworks, and Cold War missile launches.
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LIGHTS, CAPES, AND HURRICANES
This is an ArcGIS StoryMap. It’s a sort of interactive, map-oriented narrative and analysis about a section of the coast along the Florida Panhandle that I find particularly interesting. I put an auto-scrolling, embedded version of it below – but I recommend opening it in full screen, if interested, especially for those viewing on mobile.…