Projects

Field experiments in humanistic mapping

Each project is a working answer to one question: how do we render the meaning of a place? Below are public-scholarship maps, web platforms, and software released by the lab.

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Women's Movement Atlas

2026

Women's Movement Atlas

A full-screen feminist globe built with D3.js to explore women's dance, protest, ritual, and community movement across the world.

  • feminist geography
  • dance
  • D3

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Rainbow Pride

2026

Rainbow Pride

A rainbow field of 3D fragments rises from the UW Quad and other landmarks of queer memory — Stonewall, the Castro, Pulse, Compton's, and beyond — turning each place into a living atmosphere of pride, care, and belonging.

  • queer geographies
  • 3D
  • memorial

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EpiMap: King County Tract Explorer

2026

EpiMap: King County Tract Explorer

A research map for exploring chronic disease, mental health, respiratory vulnerability, and neighborhood-level health equity across King County census tracts.

  • public health
  • health equity
  • King County

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King County Youth Soccer Equity Lab

2026

King County Youth Soccer Equity Lab

An interactive equity lab for comparing youth soccer field pressure, access, and neighborhood conditions across King County census tracts.

  • sports
  • equity
  • King County

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Lines That Bind

2026

Lines That Bind

An interactive project on gerrymandering and political boundary-making, showing how drawn lines can bind communities, representation, and power.

  • gerrymandering
  • redistricting
  • political geography

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U.S. County Home Values

2026

U.S. County Home Values

An arrow-based visualization of year-over-year change in residential property values across every U.S. county, animating the past twelve months of Zillow's ZHVI.

  • housing
  • real estate
  • U.S.

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Möbius ∞ City

2026

Möbius ∞ City

An interactive 3D city built on a Möbius strip with three half-twists, folding streets, blocks, and skylines into a continuous figure-8 topology you can fly through.

  • 3D
  • topology
  • speculative cartography

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AeroPulse: Real-time Flight Disruption Tracker

2025

AeroPulse: Real-time Flight Disruption Tracker

A live map of flight delays, cancellations, and diversions, surfacing how disruptions ripple across the global aviation network.

  • aviation
  • real-time mapping
  • transportation

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Seattle City Lights: Mapping Urban Illumination

2025

Seattle City Lights: Mapping Urban Illumination

An interactive cartography of Seattle's nighttime light landscape, reading the city through its illuminated infrastructures.

  • urban
  • Seattle
  • remote sensing

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MBTA Transit Equity Atlas

2025

MBTA Transit Equity Atlas

An equity-focused web atlas of Boston's MBTA system, examining how transit access intersects with race, income, and opportunity.

  • transit
  • equity
  • Boston

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Mapping Yi-Fu Tuan's Humanistic Geography

2025

Mapping Yi-Fu Tuan's Humanistic Geography

A geo-narrative tribute to Yi-Fu Tuan, tracing the places, ideas, and itineraries that shaped humanistic geography.

  • humanistic geography
  • geo-narrative
  • biography

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Shifting LGBTQ+ Spaces

2024

Shifting LGBTQ+ Spaces

A continuing inquiry into the geographies of LGBTQ+ life, charting how queer spaces emerge, persist, and disappear across time.

  • queer geographies
  • historical GIS
  • U.S.

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Archiving the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP)

2023

Archiving the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP)

Critical and creative (un)mapping of the 2020 CHOP, weaving archival materials and oral histories into a layered geo-narrative of the protest space.

With D. Koopman, J.-K. Jung, H. Sun, & C. Anderson

  • geo-narrative
  • social justice
  • Seattle

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Shifting Queer Space in the United States (2000—2019)

2022

Shifting Queer Space in the United States (2000—2019)

A web map of Damron Men's Travel Guide venues over two decades, charting the shifting geography of queer life across the United States.

With Q. Zhang, Y. Xia, J. Huang, & L. Peng

  • queer geographies
  • historical GIS
  • U.S.

Visit site → DOI: 10.6069/WT82-TH75

Deepfake Geography

2021

Deepfake Geography

A public scholarship project on AI-fabricated satellite imagery and the emerging challenges deepfakes pose to spatial truth, trust, and geographic knowledge.

  • deepfake geography
  • GeoAI
  • misinformation

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COVID-19 Risk to Washington Workers

2020

COVID-19 Risk to Washington Workers

A smart dashboard characterizing occupational risk to Washington workers during the COVID-19 economic recovery.

With Marissa Baker & Kim England · UW Population Health Initiative

  • public health
  • labor
  • Washington

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Novel Coronavirus Infection Map

2020

Novel Coronavirus Infection Map

One of the earliest live dashboards of the COVID-19 pandemic, built in February 2020 and reported by BBC, National Geographic, and Anadolu Agency.

With F. Xu, L. Kang, J. Ji, J. Ho, & S. Bao

  • public health
  • real-time mapping
  • global

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University of Washington Virtual Tour

2020

University of Washington Virtual Tour

An interactive virtual tour of UW's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, blending 3D scenes with on-the-ground photography.

  • 3D
  • campus
  • virtual tour

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Damron Seattle: Mapping Queer Space

2019

Damron Seattle: Mapping Queer Space

A Seattle case study from the Damron Men's Travel Guide: locating decades of LGBTQ+ venues to recover a long-silenced urban history.

  • queer geographies
  • Seattle
  • historical GIS

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Global Refugee Atlas

2018

Global Refugee Atlas

A National Geographic—funded atlas tracing global refugee flows and the geographies of displacement.

With Jamon Van Den Hoek & Jennifer Alix-Garcia · National Geographic NGS-51699S-18

  • migration
  • humanitarian
  • global

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TWCA Water Calculator

2018

TWCA Water Calculator

A geovisual analytic platform for the Turfgrass Water Conservation Alliance, helping turfgrass producers reason about regional water savings.

Funded by Turfgrass Water Conservation Alliance

  • sustainability
  • water
  • platform

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Goss Point Cloud Viewer

2018

Goss Point Cloud Viewer

A WebGL point cloud viewer for sharing high-resolution lidar scans on the open web.

  • lidar
  • WebGL
  • 3D

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GEEViz: Google Earth Engine Geovisualization

2018

GEEViz: Google Earth Engine Geovisualization

A web platform for exploring planetary-scale Google Earth Engine datasets through interactive geovisual analytics.

Supported by Google Cloud Platform · with H. Friedrich

  • remote sensing
  • GeoAI
  • platform

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Stand with #StandingRock

2018

Stand with #StandingRock

An epistemological experiment in geospatial big data during the post-truth era, supporting the land claims of Sioux tribes through critical mapping.

With Yuanyuan Tian, Shaozeng Zhang, & Shenliang Chen

  • indigenous
  • social justice
  • post-truth

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Oregon Water Atlas

2017

Oregon Water Atlas

A digital collection and visualization of Oregon's water resources — winner of the Student Environment Challenge (Oregon Chapter, AWMA).

  • water
  • Oregon
  • atlas

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Sea Level Rise Induced Migration

2017

Sea Level Rise Induced Migration

An award-winning visualization of how sea level rise reshapes coastal migration patterns in the United States. Grand Prize, Ecological Visualization Contest.

NSF-DBI-1062566

  • climate
  • migration
  • visualization

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H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Point Cloud

2017

H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Point Cloud

A web point-cloud visualization of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest headquarters area, built from terrestrial lidar.

  • lidar
  • forest
  • Oregon

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Storymap.js

2016

Storymap.js

A lightweight JavaScript library for telling place-based stories on web maps. Used in courses and community projects.

  • software
  • cartography
  • open source

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