About
Landscapes of Belonging explores how landscapes change, what those changes reveal, and how data, narrative, and spatial analysis can deepen our relationship with the natural world.
This platform integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and data visualization to analyze land use, ecological patterns, and environmental processes across regions and scales. Each project combines spatial analysis with narrative to explore not only visible changes in the landscape, but also less visible factors such as data gaps, temporal shifts, and the institutional systems that influence environmental management and decision-making.
As an evolving body of work, Landscapes of Belonging develops data-driven stories that contribute to a broader understanding of environmental change through accessible, evidence-based communication.
A central question guides this work:
Are we addressing the causes of environmental change, or primarily responding to its consequences?
What This Work Pays Attention To
This platform emphasizes environmental conditions and patterns that are often overlooked in data or public discourse due to their complexity, scale, or distribution across multiple systems.
Key areas of focus include
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Long-term environmental change and gradual landscape transformation
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Gaps between quantitative data and lived, land-based experience
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Incomplete, inconsistent, or inaccessible environmental datasets
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The systems and frameworks that shape how environmental issues are measured, interpreted, and prioritized
Rather than focusing on a single environmental issue, the platform examines how environmental change is observed, analyzed, and communicated through spatial data, and how these processes shape understanding, planning, and decision-making.
Approach
Using GIS mapping, remote sensing, and visual analytics, each project translates environmental data into structured narratives that support exploration, interpretation, and informed decision-making. Visualizations serve not only to communicate results, but also to reveal relationships within data and across environmental systems.
This approach recognizes that environmental data reflects the conditions, methodologies, and systems through which it is produced. By making these factors more visible, the work promotes a deeper and more informed understanding of environmental information.
A Shared Relationship
Landscapes of Belonging is grounded in the understanding that people are part of interconnected ecological systems.
Landscapes are continually shaped by interactions among human activity, ecological processes, and environmental management practices. How these systems are observed, measured, and interpreted influences both our understanding of environmental change and the decisions made in response.
Recognizing this interconnectedness underscores the importance of responsible land stewardship, thoughtful environmental management, and long-term ecological resilience.
Looking Ahead
Landscapes of Belonging will continue to evolve through the development of new GIS, remote sensing, and environmental data visualization projects. The platform remains intentionally open-ended, supporting ongoing inquiry, diverse perspectives, and innovative approaches to understanding environmental change through spatial analysis, environmental communication, and data storytelling.