Field Station · Buffalo NY · EST. 2019

Science teacher. Data cartographer. Professional noticer.

Teaching science in Buffalo Public Schools since 2017. NYS Master Teacher Fellow. Builder of interactive maps, data dashboards, and simulations — because some stories only make sense when you can see them.

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Projects · surveyed & live

01 Adirondacks · History · Maps

A Century of Quads

Historic USGS quads from 1900, 1950, and 1990 draped over 3D terrain, plus a print room for wall-sized copies.

Survey the site 02 Adirondacks · Maps

All the Water

Every body of water inside the Blue Line, drawn from the National Hydrography Dataset: 11,212 lakes and ponds and 13,459 miles of river and stream. Each stream is drawn as wide as the water above it.

Survey the site 03 Energy · Great Lakes · Live Data · Maps

Around the Falls

Most of the Niagara River never goes over Niagara Falls. A live map of the water drawn off above the falls on both sides of the border, to the Robert Moses and Sir Adam Beck power plants.

Survey the site 04 Buffalo · Civic Data

Buffalo 311

Search every service request the city has logged, live from Open Data Buffalo.

Survey the site 05 Astronomy · Buffalo · Data Visualization

Buffalo’s Darkest Morning

The latest sunrise of the year in Buffalo comes on Halloween weekend, not in January. Every sunrise and sunset of the year on one chart.

Survey the site 06 Buffalo · Civic Data · Maps

Buffalo’s Empty Lots

Every vacant parcel in Buffalo from the 2026-27 assessment roll: 2,516 acres, about seven Delaware Parks. In Broadway-Fillmore there is an empty house lot for every house.

Survey the site 07 Astronomy · Buffalo

Buffalohenge

The exact date and minute the sun sets straight down each Buffalo street. Of 511 streets, 289 never line up at all.

Survey the site 08 Games · Three.js

Chess Cubed

Chess on an 8x8x8 cube, with 24 pawns a side and pieces that move between layers. Play a friend or the computer.

Survey the site 09 Adirondacks · Maps

Dead Center

Ask where the middle of the Adirondack Park is seven ways and you get seven answers, all within eleven miles of each other. The balance point of all six million acres sits on private land.

Survey the site 10 Data Visualization · Maps

Find My Town

Ever driving around with no idea what town you’re actually in? Tap once and it names the exact city, town, or village you’re standing in and draws its border around you — even with no signal.

Survey the site 11 Maps · Satellite

Gaza, Before and After

Drag the line across the Gaza Strip: May 2023 satellite imagery on the left, the newest available on the right.

Survey the site 12 Adirondacks · Maps

Highest Private Land

The highest ground in the Adirondack Park that is neither Forest Preserve nor a public-access easement: 1,165 meters on a shoulder of Lyon Mountain, about 130 meters from the state-owned summit.

Survey the site 13 Buffalo · Civic Data · Safety

Lead in Buffalo School Water

Every Buffalo public school’s 2023-25 drinking water lead test, from NYS Department of Health data: how many taps and fountains tested above 5 parts per billion.

Survey the site 14 Satellite · Three.js

Live Earth

A rotating Earth built from yesterday’s satellite passes, with city lights and a moving day/night line.

Survey the site 15 Maps · Print

Map Prints

Draw a box on any lake or mountain and pull a 1000 DPI poster out of it.

Survey the site 16 History · Maps

Navigate the Past

Every USGS topographic map ever printed of the ground under your feet, stacked by year. Also an iPhone app.

Survey the site 17 Data Visualization · Maps

Never Far

Nowhere in the Athens Unit of Wayne National Forest can you stand more than 0.86 miles from a road. The Adirondack map, run again on the Ohio hills.

Survey the site 18 Data Visualization · Demographics

Niagara Falls by the Decades

A century of the city’s demographic history, rendered as an interactive stacked area chart. Population as terrain.

Survey the site 19 Adirondacks · Data Visualization · Maps

Off the Grid

Find the most remote corners of the Adirondacks — the spots furthest from any road or trail. Pick what counts as access, hover anywhere for the remoteness there, search for a place, or click the map to see what’s nearby.

Survey the site 20 Adirondacks · Three.js

Overlook

All 82 Adirondack units orbiting in 3D over satellite imagery. Pick a wilderness and fly it.

Survey the site 21 Buffalo · Maps

Ten Minutes to a Park

How much of Buffalo lives within a 10-minute walk of a park, measured along real streets and paths from every block, with a switch for how big a park has to be before it counts.

Survey the site 22 Adirondacks · Maps

The Biggest Blank Spots

The longest straight line you can draw across the Adirondacks without crossing a road or a railroad. It runs 38.4 miles.

Survey the site 23 Adirondacks · Night Sky

The Darkest Sky

Where the night is actually dark. Little Salmon Lake has the blackest sky in the Park; a prison yard has the brightest.

Survey the site 24 Great Lakes · Live Data

The Erie Seiche

Lake Erie sloshing in real time, built from 14 water-level gauges on both sides of the border.

Survey the site 25 Great Lakes · Maps

The Floor of the Great Lakes

All five lake bottoms on one map, drained of water, at 3 arc-second resolution.

Survey the site 26 Data Visualization · Energy

The True Cost of Electricity

What electricity costs when nothing rides free

Survey the site 27 Algonquin · Data Visualization · Maps

The Working Wilderness

Algonquin Provincial Park is bigger than Prince Edward Island, and the deepest you can stand from a road inside it is 8.26 km. Take the logging roads away and it would be 27.

Survey the site 28 Maps · Satellite

Ukraine, Before and After

Drag the line across the cities of eastern Ukraine: satellite imagery from before the 2022 invasion on the left, the newest available on the right.

Survey the site 29 Exam Prep · Licensing

Uncommon Prep

Modern, interactive prep for the licensing exams the big prep companies ignore. Live now: the New York wildlife rehabilitator exam, the falconry examination, and the licensed guide examinations.

Survey the site 30 Maps · Safety

Where Am I?

Sometimes you just need to know where you are—get your exact latitude and longitude instantly, privately, and even offline.

Survey the site 31 Great Lakes · Maps

Without Leaving the Water

Every stretch of water a boat can reach from New York Harbor without ever leaving it, colored by how high the water sits, with a route finder that counts the locks.

Survey the site 32 Data Visualization · Demographics

Buffalo by the Decades

A century of the city’s demographic history, rendered as an interactive stacked area chart. Population as terrain.

Survey the site 33 Civic Data · Three.js

BPS Budget in 3D

Buffalo Public Schools staffing data as an explorable 3D landscape. Every high school, every FTE, one map.

Survey the site 34 Energy · Live Data

NY Grid Fuel Mix

Real-time and historical views of New York’s electricity mix — including the ~90% of solar the standard data doesn’t see.

Survey the site 35 Place-Based Learning

Scajaquada Creek Environmental Science Lab

A Buffalo waterway turned living classroom. Founded at McKinley High School; the field work continues.

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The observer

I've been teaching in Buffalo Public Schools since 2017 — six years in special education, three in general science, and science all the way through — much of it building environmental science programs, field experiences, and classroom technology at McKinley High School. This fall I'm joining City Honors School's STARS program as a science special education teacher, working with students with autism.

Off the clock I'm a self-described history nerd and data nerd — the kind of person who turns a census table into terrain and reads weather model output for fun. If a story about Buffalo, energy, or ecology can be made visible, I'll probably try to build it.

When the laptop closes: sailing Lake Erie, fishing the Upper Niagara, and slowly carving a camp out of the Adirondack woods.

Station Specs

PositionScience Special Ed · City Honors

CertificationsChemistry · General Science · SWD · Aeronautics · Drone Technology, all 7–12

FellowshipNYS Master Teacher

In ProgressEdD, Curriculum & Instruction

FoundedScajaquada Creek Env. Science Lab

Coordinates42.886° N, 78.878° W

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