Hello!
I'm Fiona, a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College now living and working in Los Angeles, California. Currently, I have the honor of serving as an AmeriCorps CivicSpark Fellow, stationed with the City of Santa Monica's Office of Sustainability and the Environment. I'm always looking for multidisciplinary opportunities in data science, conservation, environmental engineering, and GIS analysis. Data visualization is a passion of mine, and I'm constantly striving to become a more clear and compelling communicator through my analysis work. Please enjoy a glimpse into my past research!
Analysis work for NPCC and NYC's VIA
During my undergraduate studies, I completed a placement as an intern for
NYC's Vulnerability, Impact, and Adaptation Analysis (VIA)
team under supervision of Bernice Rosenzweig.
This opportunity provided me valuable insights into the city's climate adaptation work, and allowed me room to grow my spatial and
non-spatial visualization and analysis skills. My work as a VIA intern followed my position as a NYC VIA Summer Fellow in 2023, which provided
similar growth to my competencies as a data scientist and communicator. Both placements challenged (and subsequently improved) my literacy
with QGIS and Python visualizations.
Rosenzweig, B. Montalto, F. Orton, P. et al. New York City Panel on
Climate Change 4th Assessment Report: Climate Change and New York City’s Flood Risk. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
In Review (Submitted September 2023).
Visualizations featured in the NPCC 2024 report
Groundwater Flood Inundation of Vulnerable Buildings
Coastal Flood Event in NYC: December 2022
Groundwater Flood Inundation of NYCHA Buildings
Undergraduate research projects
Unequal Ecological Exchange Analysis of India and the U.K. - WIOT Data Exploration
Spring 2024
Immigrants in NYC and Flood Exposure: An Investigative Data Exploration
Fall 2023
Case Study: Vinyl Chloride Train Derailment in East Palestine, OH
Spring 2023
Collective Intelligence: Ant Colony Simulation & the Traveling Salesman Problem
Spring 2023
Terrain Analysis and Urban Watersheds: Delineating the Upper Bronx River Basin
Fall 2022
Radioecology of Chornobyl: the biological effects of ionizing radiation on natural systems and non-human biota
Fall 2022
Summer Science: 311 Data & Pluvial Flooding in NYC
Summer 2022
Visualizing the Microbial Communities of the Saw Mill River: an Educational Narrative
Spring 2022
Assessing Flood Vulnerability in New York City: Case Studies and 311 Service Data
Spring 2022
Development in Bhutan: Happiness, Hydropolitics, and India
Fall 2021
Lotka-Volterra Modeling: The Predator-Prey Dynamics of Lynx canadensis and Lepus americanus
Fall 2021
Declining Monarch Populations and Pesticide Use: A Data Exploration Using Python
Spring 2021
Habituation and other complex processes in Physarum polycephalum: what a single-celled organism can teach us about how we learn
Spring 2021