National Geographic

During the summer of 2026, I interned with National Geographic's cartography department. Here, I made several maps for the National Geographic Magazine, the Bookazine, digital articles, and social media. Over the course of 12 weeks, I created 6 maps, assisted on 1, and made 20 first draft maps for a Bookzine Atlas.

My first published map was of the arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi network. This is a first of it's kind map published on June 11, 2026. I made one version for web browser size (left) as well as one for mobile phones (right).

Fungi take up more mass than people—see how they stretch across the EarthScientists created the first-ever map of this vast underground fungal network and found it could stretch to the sun and back more than a billion times.

Read about it here!

This map was created for National Geographic photographer, Mathieu Paley's photo exposure. For over 20 years he has walked Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor.

A National Geographic photographer walks across the roof of the worldCentral Asia's Wakhan Corridor is a place of pure poetry.

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