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I’m passionate about turning data into beautiful, meaningful visuals that tell a story that helps connect knowledge to action.

Maps

Alaska Permafrost Map
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Alaska permafrost extent

Created for Woodwell Climate Research Center. Map designed using ArcGIS Pro and Maps for Adobe.

East Coast Heatwave Map
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Terrain Map of Colorado

Created for Woodwell Climate Research Center. Data accessed via Google Earth Engine, map designed in ArcGIS Pro, graph designed in R-Studio, final formatting in Adobe Illustrator.

U.S. 100 year rainfall map
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U.S. 100 year rainfall map

Created for Woodwell Climate Research Center. Map designed using ArcGIS Pro and Maps for Adobe.

Fishing Vessel Emissions
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Total Annual Fishing Vessel Emissions 2024

Created for Environmental Markets Lab (EmLab). Data accessed via Google Earth Engine, map designed using MAPublisher.

Alaska Native Languages
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Alaska Native Language Region Boundaries

Created for Woodwell Climate Research Center. Data accessed via Google Earth Engine, map designed using ArcGIS Pro & Maps for Adobe.

Alaska Temperature
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Alaska Summer Temperature

Created for Woodwell Climate Research Center. Data accessed via Google Earth Engine, map designed using ArcGIS Pro & Maps for Adobe.

Colorado Terrain Map
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Colorado Science on the Fly

Created fir Woodwell Climate Research Center. Designed using ArcGIS Pro and Maps for Adobe.

CO River Basin
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Created for Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in ArcGIS Pro.

Routt County Map
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CA County-Level AQI

Created for Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in ArcGIS Pro.

Upper Yampa River Basin
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Upper Yampa River Basin

Created for Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in ArcGIS Pro.

Routt County Average Precip
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Pepper Headshot 3

Created for Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in ArcGIS Pro.

CA County-Level AQI
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CA County-Level AQI

Created for a graduate course at UCSB. Designed in R-Studio.

CA County-Level Low Income
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CA County-Level Low Income

Created for a graduate course at UCSB. Designed in R-Studio.

LA Redlining Map
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Los Angeles Historic Redlining Map

Created for a graduate course at UCSB. Designed in R-Studio.

Antarctica Heatwave
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Antarctica

Created for an exercise. Designed in Google Earth Engine and QGIS.

Morgan Creek Fire Map
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Morgan Creek Fire Map

Created for Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in QGIS.

Data Viz

Alaska Summer Temp Chart
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Alaska June & July Average Temperature Anomaly

Created for Woodwell Climate Research Center, designed in R.

Alaska Stream Temp Chart
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Alaska Stream Temperature Chart

Created for Woodwell Climate Research Center, designed in R.

An Upstream Battle
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An Upstream Battle

Created for Graduate Course, designed in R & Affinity.

US FEMA Risk
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This boxplot shows how FEMA National Risk Index scores for counties in California compare to those in other states. The plot shows the distribution of county FEMA Natural Hazard Ratings for counties on the x-axis, grouped by state on the y-axis. The plot reveals that California counties face the greatest natural hazard risk in the United States. With more than 75% of its counties falling above relatively moderate risk and more than 50% of counties falling in the high risk category.

Created for a graduate course at UCSB, designed in R.

CA FEMA Risk
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This stacked barplot shows how climate hazard risk exposure varies across racial and ethnic groups in California. The x-axis represents the proportion of natural hazard risk exposure, while the y-axis categorizes populations by race and ethnicity from the U.S. Census Bureau. Bars are color-coded to indicate FEMA's Natural Hazard Risk Ratings: Relatively Moderate, Relatively High, and Very High. While almost all counties across California are exposed to moderate to high risk, this plot highlights that the distribution of risk is not uniform across race. Notably, 74% of Black and Asian populations, fall into the Very High risk category, the highest proportion among race groups. In comparison, 60% of white individuals and 58% of native Hawaiian/pacific islanders, fall into this category.

Created for a graduate course at UCSB, designed in R.

Emissions by Country
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Fishing vessel emissions by country

Created for Environmental Markets Lab, designed in R.

Emissions by Country
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Fishing vessel emissions by gear type

Created for Environmental Markets Lab, designed in R.

Peak SWE
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Line graph showing the change in peak SWE at the Tower Station in Northern Colorado.

Created for Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in Microsoft Excel.

Interactive Visualizations

  • Seamissions Explorer
  • Chinook Salmon StoryMap
  • YRFRP StoryMap
  • Yampascaping Guide
  • Y-Basin Map
  • YVCC Map

Infographics

An Upstream Battle
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An Upstream Battle

Winter-run Chinook salmon narrowly avoided extinction in 1990s. While their numbers have made a slight recovery, their upstream battle continues as they face ongoing threats like warming rivers and habitat loss. Keeping rivers cool is one of the most critical ways to protect them. Designed in R-Studio and Affinity.

Riparian Areas
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Benefits of Yampascaping.

This is an infographic that provides an overview of the benefits of healthy riparian areas and provides three simple tips for how homeowners can help protect and enhance them. I created this to support a riparian health initiative by Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in Adobe Illustrator and Canva.

Riparian Areas
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Ways that homeowners can protect and enhance riparian areas.

This is an infographic that provides an overview of the benefits of healthy riparian areas and provides three simple tips for how homeowners can help protect and enhance them. I created this to support a riparian health initiative by Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in Adobe Illustrator and Canva.

Riparian Education
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Benefits of planting trees along mountain rivers.

This is an infographic that provides an overview of the benefits of planting trees along rivers. I created this to support an initiative of the Yampa River Forest Restoration Project led by Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in Adobe Illustrator.

Riparian Education
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YVSC Strategic Priorities.

This is an infographic that provides an overview of the 2022 - 2026 Strategic Priorities for Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. I designed this to support their 5-year strategic planning process. Designed in Adobe Illustrator.

Riparian Education
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Benefits of planting trees along mountain rivers.

This is an infographic that provides an overview of the datasets that were included in a spatial statistical analysis to support the Y-Basin Integrated Network project led by Yampa Valley Sustainability Council. Designed in Adobe Illustrator.

Videos

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