California on Fire: Continued Learning in Fire Ecology and Adobe InDesign

While in an Ecology class in the spring of 2019, I spearheaded the creation of an infographic for a group project on fire ecology. Using some sources that I was already familiar with from my fire ecology story map (such as the San Francisco Chronicle Wildfire Tracker), I was able to create a poster that offered additional information on fire ecology.

To create the map, I took screenshots of the Chronicle’s Wildfire Tracker and then georeferenced the images in ArcMap to create point features for each fire. I created graduated symbols to represent each fire and classified them based on acres burned. Finally, I calculated population density of California counties and underlaid those measurements behind the fire symbols.