My name is Riley and I make maps.
These are a few projects I’ve been working on lately.
Basemap design and data creation for "Mapping Inequality" (2023)
18x9-foot magnetic wall map installation at Bonner Center for Civic Engagement (2024)
Map for "The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond" (2024)
Freelance map for Rolling Stone (2024)
Data collection and design consulting for "Electing the President" (2024)
Volunteer map for neighborhood 5K race (2024)
Maps for upcoming exhibit at Lora Robins Gallery (2023)
Map for "The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond" (2024)
From 2016-2023, I was a cartographer at National Geographic.
This a selection of projects I worked on there.
Note — some images may link to articles that have a paywall.
"Siachen Glacier" — Print, March, 2021
"Arctic summer sea ice could disappear as early as 2035" — Online, Aug. 2020
"Black Homeownership" — Print, Sept. 2021
"How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic" — Online, March 2020
"Shade" — Print, June 2021
"See the Wild Places That May Lose Protections as National Monuments" — Online, Sept. 2018
"Shade" — Print, June 2021
"Expedition Braves Arctic Perils for Climate Science" — Online, Nov. 2017
"Prairie Divide" — Print, Feb. 2020
"Our nights are getting brighter, and Earth is paying the price" — Online, April 2019
"Java Flooding" — Print, Feb. 2022
"Slimy Green Beaches May Be Florida's New Normal" — Online, July 2016
"Weird ‘boomerang’ earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean" — Online, Aug. 2020
"Giraffes" — Print, Oct. 2019
"No Way Out" — Print, March 2018
"The problem America has neglected for too long: deteriorating dams" — Online, May 2005
"This map shows millions of acres of lost Amazon rainforest" — Online, April 2019
"This map shows where on Earth humans aren’t" — Online, June 2020
Dalai Lama — August, 2019
"A strange earthquake swarm lasted for years. Scientists finally know why." — Online, June 2020
"The Himalaya's Ghost Leopards" — Print, July 2020
"Climate Consequences" — Print, April 2020
"Here's what a massive coronavirus lockdown would look like in the U.S." —Online, March 2020
"The Arctic Is Heating Up" — Print, Sept. 2019
"A City Rises" — Print, April 2019
"How Latinos Are Shaping America's Future" — Print, July 2018
"How Pandemics Change US" — Print, Aug. 2020
"Raccoons are spreading across Earth—and climate change could help" — Online, July 2019
"Every three minutes, an earthquake strikes in California" — Online, April 2019
"How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic" — Online, March 2020
"The Tigers Next Door" — Print, Dec. 2019
"After Harvey, Are Epic Rains the New Normal?" – Online, Sept. 2017
"Forest Fires Can Heat Up the Whole Planet" — Online, June 2016
"The Last Honey Hunter" — Print, July 2017
"Hurricane Florence's Rains May Be 50% Worse Thanks to Climate Change" — Online, Sept. 13
"Soccer Without Borders" — Print, July 2018
Selected features on nationalgeographic.com
Note: These links require a subscription to read.
”The ‘cartographic nightmare’ of the Kashmir region, explained”
— March 2021How L.A.'s urban tree canopy reveals hidden inequities
—June 2021"The Tigers Next Door" — Dec. 2019
"Giraffes" — Oct. 2019
"The Arctic Is Heating Up" — Sept. 2019
"A City Rises" — April 2019
"No Way Out" — March 2019
"How Latinos Are Shaping America's Future" — July 2018
"Soccer Without Borders" — July 2018