Synthesis of city population, population density, built-up area, and disaggregated GDP, visualizing the recursively interacting processes that propel the agglomeration of people, infrastructure, and investment in space.
Composite visualization of four global transportation matrices—roads, aviation, shipping, and railways—to show major logistics infrastructures and circulatory pathways that support the regularized flow of people, material, energy, commodities, and waste into and out of major metropolitan centers.
Composite visualization of global croplands, fishing, mining, and forestry to show intermeshed landscapes of primary commodity production across the earth that support the metabolic operations of major urban centers.
Annotated map of the FireScope infrared mapping program, a major effort to produce a systematic infrared map of Southern California vegetation and fire risk.
Showing US administrative definition of the Arctic, including the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands, site of crab fishery dispute around the marginal ice zone (MIZ).
Showing oil fields, leasing blocks, and the “marginal ice zone” (MIZ) in the Atlantic-Arctic trisection of the circumpolar region.
Model interface used for labeling displaying the total column water vapor field in green. The colored and patterned polygons show examples of atmospheric river labels.
Overlay of corn cultivation areas shown in yellow, and soybean cultivation in green, with darker zones corresponding to areas of rotation between the these commodities.
Visualization of the “3/4 Coast,” an engineered and invented territory comprisin the watery geographies of Chicago and the Great Lakes– the so-called “Third Coast” of the United States– and their conjuncture with the Mississippi River watershed– the “Fourth Coast.” Produced as a thematic graphic for Introduction to Critical Spatial Media, Autumn 2023.
Elements of the Global Industrial Feedlot Matrix with populations of industrial chickens shown in blue and pigs shown in red.