Tombolo Maps & Design

I have worked with multiple teams at USHMM on projects since 2016, culminating in encyclopedias and textbooks with dozens of my maps, it has been an honor to be entrusted with the historically sensitive geospatial data utilized for each of these maps.

The Wilson Center’s report, The Mosaic Approach, identified  the geographic concentration of critical minerals as a significant challenge to both the supply chain, and to U.S. geopolitical and climate ambitions. This series of 10 maps (updated twice and accompanied by a MapBox interactive map) illustrate the geographic concentration of reserves and processing for five critical minerals: cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, and rare earth elements. 

MapBox Interactive Map Visualizing the Geographic Concentration of Critical Minerals Reserves and Processing for the Wilson Center
(Toggleable Legend Coding by Subcontractor Joanna Merson)

I created maps for articles in High Country News—which covers social, political and ecological issues in the western United States—depicting how climate change-induced drought, rising temperatures, and growing demand have put the entire water system at risk and visualizing the Green River Basin and Wyoming’s wolf management areas.

I worked with BJA (an exhibit planning and design firm) on geospatially accurate maps to be fabricated for permanent museum displays. 

I developed two asset maps of the Sonoma Valley for the Hanna Institute recording the physical and communal assets (community, political, spiritual, cultural, and physical resources) to help elicit and amplify the fortalezas and spirit of comunidad  that exist in Sonoma Valley today from data collected during the Hanna Institute's participatory mapping process of the research. 

I co-designed (with my colleague Rachael Huerta Carpenter) the symbology for the Goat Maps "Maps for Adventure" Navigation App.

I created 33 maps of Portugal for the first edition of the Moon Portugal: With Madeira & the Azores  travel guide.

MapBox Interactive Map of the Área de Conservación Guanacaste  for the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
(Toggleable Legend Coding by Subcontractor Taylor Cochran)

Developed the maps for Resort Guides' four-season guides which publish from 50,000 (Mad River Valley) to 100,000 (Adirondacks) issues every year and distributed across up to 250 locations across the region. 

Created the maps for S.E. Duff's textbook Children and Youth in African History  which introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras.

I made three mini maps for the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport)—in partnership with the advertising agency, Boathouse Group—to educate the public about Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) regulations involving drone "no fly zones" around Boston International Airport (BOS), Worcester Regional Airport (ORH), and Hanscom Field (BED).

Created a map of Libya for Randolph Hobler's 101 Arabian Tales: How We All Persevered in Peace Corps Libya, a collective memoir of in-depth interviews with returned Peace Corps volunteers.

God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador  by Kathryn T. Long discusses how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. I developed a series of maps visualizing territory changes and conflicts over half a century.

Worked with a number of friends on maps for their wedding locations, as well as maps to celebrate the places they call home.

Created an overlapping series of 14 projections of Svalbard, Norway for artist Perri Howard of VMG: Velocity Made Good, which she had etched on a magnesium plate and printed as a letterpress edition.

In my (limited) free time, I have worked on a number of maps that are simply for the fun of it.

I have been involved in lots of long-term projects within the Eastern Caribbean, but I've also had the opportunity to make a variety of one-off maps for organizations and people I care deeply about, not to mention a bunch of maps I made just for myself.

Collaborated with the Union Island Tourism Board on a map of Union Island, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to map the island's natural and cultural attractions (including biodiversity conservation areas, birdwatching sites, beaches, forts, snorkeling and kitesurfing spots, hiking trails, and essential facilities). To pair with the print map, I created an interactive map in Google Maps with matching data for us on their website. Community meetings were hosted to ensure accuracy and comprehensiveness of the information visualized on the maps.

I have served on the We Are Mayreau, Inc. (WAM) Board of Directors since it was founded in 2016. In collaboration with the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), WAM hosted workshops on vulnerability and capacity assessment and disaster risk and resilience action planning. For the community mapping workshop, I developed a map of Mayreau, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines that could be used by local community members to identify risks to their island. I also created an interactive collaborative map in Felt for the community as a photo journal record.

Worked with the Tobago Cays Marine Park in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to update their decades-old map of the park, highlighting yacht and cruise ship anchorage zones, marine ecosystems, hiking trails, and protection and management zones.

Collaborated with Dr Russell Fielding on his research on the demographic and geographic patterns of cetacean-based food product consumption and potential mercury exposure within the Caribbean whaling community of Barrouallie, Saint Vincent, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. I co-authored the article and completed the cartography for the maps.

Dr. Russell Fielding found my maps of the Grenadines and contacted me with a simple toponym clarification, then proceeded to invite me to coauthor the chapter he was writing on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Landscapes and Landforms of the Lesser Antilles. As a student of geoinformatics, being invited to collaborate on writing about the geomorphology of islands that I had already spent 5 years working in was an incredible opportunity, as was contributing to the accuracy of the maps included within the chapter.

Developed a series of 75 simple black-and-white maps of GPS points along the boundaries of Trinidad and Tobago's protected areas including habitat and species management reserves, seascapes and landscapes, national parks, natural landmarks and monuments, scientific reserves, special conservation reserves, and sustainable use reserves for the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources.

Created a monochrome series of wall maps for each of the inhabited transboundary Grenadine islands in Saint Vincent and Grenadines and in Grenada.