Geography & Maps

Interactive maps and spatial analysis exploring landscapes, environments, and the geographic forces that shape our world.

Interactive Map

Cahokia Mounds

Interactive Leaflet.js map of North America's largest pre-Columbian settlement, featuring mound locations and boundary overlays.

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Geopolitics

The Lithium Standoff

Mapping the geopolitics, ecology, and physics of the global lithium race across continents.

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Quarto Report

Florida Everglades

Spatial analysis and mapping of the Florida Everglades ecosystem using Quarto and interactive visualizations.

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Quarto Report

Map of Rome

An interactive map of ancient and modern Rome, built with Quarto for spatial storytelling.

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Geopolitics

Critical Minerals

Mapping the global distribution, supply chains, and strategic importance of critical minerals driving the modern economy.

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Machine Learning

Fazenda Colorada Geoglyphs

Using machine learning to identify and map Amazonian geoglyphs from satellite imagery.

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Quarto Report

Stone Sentinels

The enigmatic watchtowers of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, built in seismic terrain without mortar across a thousand years of fractured highland history.

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Story Map

Angkor Wat Hydraulic System

How the Khmer Empire engineered water across 1,000 square kilometers to sustain a city of one million, and why that same system eventually brought it down.

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Analysis Dashboard

Angkor Sedimentation & Collapse

D3 timeline analysis of the Angkor hydraulic system's decline: sedimentation rates, canal capacity loss, drought cycles, and the cascading infrastructure failures that ended the Khmer Empire.

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Geopolitics

The White Gold Rush

Mapping the Americas minerals race: lithium, cobalt, and rare earths at the center of the energy transition and a new era of resource geopolitics.

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Quarto Report

The Outlaw Coast

Spatial history of the Florida Everglades: smuggling routes, lost settlements, and two centuries of contested borderland ecology.

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Remote Sensing

After the Storm

Carbon, timber, and the science of what happens when 822,000 acres fall. Sentinel-1 SAR and Landsat NDVI analysis of Hurricane Helene forest damage across western North Carolina.

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Interactive Map

Chimney Rock

535 million years of Blue Ridge geology mapped at the gorge scale. DEM hillshade, climbing areas, waterfalls, trails, and the Helene impact zone in Hickory Nut Gorge.

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Story Map

The Argonauts

Tracing Jason's voyage across the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea. An interactive map of the mythological route from Iolcos to Colchis and back, layered over the real geography of the Greek world.

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Quarto Report

Sentinel of the Streams

Rana boylii, the foothill yellow-legged frog of California. Species distribution, DPS range loss, and GBIF occurrence data across a century of habitat decline.

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Interactive Map

Rana Boylii Range Map

Interactive webmap of Rana boylii occurrence records, DPS boundaries, and watershed-scale habitat data across California and Oregon.

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