Interactive
Interactive: EcoWest Visualizations: Wildfires in the U.S.
This interactive map plots the boundaries of U.S. wildfires since 2003. Click on the years at the top to see what parts of the nation were burning and to read an annual summary. Click on an individual fire to see more details and view an animated daily progression of the blaze.
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Interactive: EcoWest Visualizations: Rain and Snow
This map shows total rain and snowfall in the contiguous United States, every month from 1981 to the present. The map's color scale runs from white (no precipitation), to blue (significant precipitation) to red (intense precipitation)
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Interactive: EcoWest Visualizations: Drought
This interactive map shows weekly drought designations by the U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM), which reports conditions across the country. The Drought Monitor publishes a weekly map that shows areas of the country that are in drought, using five classifications.
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Interactive: Understanding California's Groundwater
A library of interactive maps, charts and data visualizations explaining critical issues related to California's groundwater resources. Prepared as part of the series of articles, "Understanding California's Groundwater."
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Interactive: A History of Bay Area Open Space Conservation
The Bay Area has a long history of preserving its open lands. Today, about one-third of the region is designated as open space, from small city parks to lands stretching thousands of acres.
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Interactive: Shifting Landscapes in the Bay Area
As the climate continues to warm, scientists believe the Bay Area’s microclimates will shift. These maps show how the region’s plant communities could move as conditions change. What scientists don't know is how fast vegetation could migrate to new areas or how the changes will affect Bay Area parks and wildlife.
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Interactive: Farming Water
In this illustrated report, the Bill Lane Center for the American West's research assistant Emily Bookstein (Stanford '11) looks at farmers in the Palo Verde valley in Southern California who have embraced a new way to supplement their livelihood: temporarily transfering their water rights to urban utilities in exchange for cash.
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Interactive: Comparing the Cost of Water
A look at how Texas stacks up against other parts of the U.S. in water rates, single-family usage, precipitation and drought. Produced in collaboration with the Texas Tribune.
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Interactive: Envisioning California's Delta As It Was
An interactive map of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta comparing the historical habitat with the present day landscape, produced in collaboration with KQED Public Media and the San Francisco Estuary Institute.
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Interactive: Data Visualization: Changing U.S. Demographics
This visualization enables users to expore demographic changes over time and space using U.S. Census data at the county level from 1850 to 2008.
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