Tag: storymap

• 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…

  First posted:

  September 2023

• 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…

  First posted:

  December 2022

• T-MINUS 6000

  Growing up, my dad worked at the Kennedy Space Center, so it should be no surprise that I have always had an interest in space travel and exploration. This ArcGIS StoryMap highlights and explores data derived from astrophysicist Jonathan C McDowell’s website, Jonathan’s Space Report, and includes every attempted rocket launch to orbit around the…

  First posted:

  July 2021

• 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…

  First posted:

  June 2020

• OF ALL THE FISH IN THE SEA

  

  This is an ArcGIS StoryMap — a sort of map-oriented, scrolly-story I made about the menhaden fishery, which has been an important part of the United States economy since its birth. It also touches on the ecological importance of menhaden and why we should manage them with care. An auto-scrolling, embedded version of the story…

  First posted:

  December 2019

• LIGHTS, CAPES, AND HURRICANES

  

  This is an ArcGIS StoryMap. It’s a sort of interactive, map-oriented narrative—and here I’ve done an amateur analysis of a bit of coast along the Florida Panhandle, which 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…

  First posted:

  September 2019