Beneath the waves, Climate Change puts marine life on the move

Posted by Andrew Ba Tran on August 29, 2016

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Beneath the waves, Climate Change puts marine life on the move

This story was fun to crack.

I worked with our environmental in tracking down sea life migration data and worked through different iterations of visualizing the patterns.

I also came up with different versions of the maps depending on the screen width.

The image above was for mobile viewers while small multiple images were created for desktop visitors.

I used R to scrape the data from Rutgers and the National Marine Fisheries Service and also generated visualizations pretty much exclusively in R as well.

I look forward to cleaning up the code and releasing it for others to easily create migration maps.

In the meantime, check out part two of the series: Above the waves, Connecticut fishermen struggle to hang on.