Washington, DC Sea Rise Map
When I first made the New York and the Boston maps, I rendered the sea level rise at a much lower level than the cities of the West Coast. The…
Boston -- Buy this map
Boston Sea Rise Map
I made the first Boston sea rise map several years ago, but I never wrote a blog post about it. Well, here it is, at long last. The first map…
Updated NY Sea Rise Map
Here's the NY Sea map, updated with new graphics. This will happen someday, but not in our lifetimes. Some who have dared to speculate on a timeline have given themselves…
Portland, OR -- Buy this map
Updated Portland Map
Here's the newer version of the Portland map, with updated hillshading and elevation. It shows 215' of sea level rise, the highest estimated by the IPCC. You can buy this…
San Diego -- Buy this map
Updated San Diego Sea Rise Map
In the ongoing process of updating my old maps, this is San Diego and Tijuana with 215' of sea level rise. I love how the terrain came out in this…
Revising the Bay of LA Map
In the years since I made my first sea rise map, I've learned a lot of interesting cartographic techniques. I wanted to incorporate these methods into my work, so I’ve…
California Central Valley and Bay Area Sea Rise
California Central Valley
Ursula LeGuin did it first--Always Coming Home has a fantastic drawing of this, created in the mid-1980s. This map shows what central California and the Bay Area will look like…
Pacific Northwest & Salish Sea -- Buy this map
Salish Sea, Olympic Island, Willamette Sea
The Pacific Northwest, with 215' of sea level rise, will have new seas, a massive island containing the Olympic Mountains, and a bunch of drowned cities. For the topography, I…
Cascadia Sea Rise
Cascadia Sea Rise
My most recent project is a map of Cascadia. Two maps, really. I started with a sea rise map, showing the high point of 66 meters, according to the IPCC.…
Seattle --
Evolution of a Map
Really, this post might be more appropriately titled "Evolution of a Cartographer", because the way I've revisited and changed this map over the years reflects what I have learned and…