kitchensjn / topotable

The TopoTable Project seeks to build a dynamic 3D topographic relief table that is built with moveable pillars. Rather than being constrained to a single region, the motors within the TopoTable would allow it to shift from one map to the next. I have worked to develop the user interface for downloading and processing elevation data using Python, R, Leaflet and Shiny. This application is hosted through shinyapps.io.

Hi, I'm James!

I am a graduate student studying population genetics in the Coop Lab through the UC Davis Population Graduate Group. Before graduate school, I interned at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, researching the application of remote sensing for groundwater observation and management. In December 2019, I graduated from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, where I earned a B.S. in Biology and B.S. in Chemistry. While in undergraduate, I worked in the Warren Wilson College Plant Physiology and Genetics Laboratory as a Research Assistant on projects focused around the conservation of human-impacted species in the United States.