Olivia Redmond's Portfolio
Rooted in curiosity, shaped by weather, climate, and environmental geography, and inspired by the people and places that give my work purpose
I’m Olivia Redmond, a geographer and creative mapmaker with a lifelong interest in weather, climate, and the places people call home. My work brings together environmental studies, geography, GIS, and storytelling to make patterns in the landscape easier to see and understand. I use GIS to explore how land, water, weather, and people interact. Whether I’m mapping flood risk, sea-level rise, mountain climate gradients, severe weather, or movement across terrain, I use maps to answer questions, explain my findings, and connect environmental data back to real places and people.
About My Portfolio
This portfolio brings together my work in geography, environmental studies, GIS, and cartography. I am especially interested in weather, climate, landscapes, and the places people call home. I use GIS to ask questions about those places, find patterns in environmental data, and turn what I find into maps that are clear and useful.
Across these projects, I look at how landscapes shape people’s experiences and how environmental change affects where and how people live. My work includes coastal flood risk, climate interpolation, terrain-based route modeling, historical tornado analysis, sea-level-rise mapping, and suitability studies for recreation and conservation. The subjects and methods change from project to project, but the connection between geography, environment, and people stays at the center of my work.
In Virginia, I mapped seasonal temperature patterns using geostatistical interpolation to show how climate changes between the mountains and the coast. In Jamaica Beach on Galveston Island, I combined elevation, FEMA flood-hazard data, coastal hydrology, and building footprints to map where flooding may pose the greatest risk to homes and streets. I later expanded that work to the wider Galveston area by mapping several sea-level-rise scenarios and looking at how rising water, subsidence, and storm surge could affect coastal communities.
In the Darién Gap, I used least-cost-path analysis to explore how terrain, slope, and hydrology shape possible routes through rainforest and wetlands. My tornado project compared two historic super outbreaks and looked at where tornado paths crossed metropolitan areas. In the Cuyamaca and Laguna Mountains, I created topographic and weighted suitability maps to identify possible campground locations based on elevation, vegetation, road access, slope, and terrain ruggedness.
My technical work includes raster analysis, hydrologic and terrain modeling, geostatistical interpolation, cost-distance analysis, remote map and data services, FEMA flood-hazard interpretation, sea-level-rise visualization, and multi-criteria suitability analysis. Just as important to me is how the final map communicates. I try to make complex environmental information easier to understand without losing the details that make each place different.
More than anything, this portfolio reflects the way I think about geography. A map is not just a collection of layers, symbols, or data. It represents a real place and the people living there. I want my work to help people see environmental patterns more clearly, understand why they matter, and think more carefully about the places around them.