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National Geographic Society + TNC
Marine & community conservation externship
A marine and community conservation externship applied to a place close to home: Tanghin Dam in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. I explored how environmental change intersects with local livelihoods and how mapping and narrative can communicate those connections.
Timeline
22 September–17 November 2025 · Two-month remote conservation externship. The public StoryMap was published on 20 November 2025, after the program.
My contribution
Synthesized local reporting and existing community footage into research records and a public ArcGIS StoryMap. Connected plastic pollution, invasive water hyacinths, fishing livelihoods and community responses, with attribution for external material.
How I worked
Organized the research around the place, its environmental pressures and the people affected. Combined written explanations, maps and attributed media so the story remained understandable beyond a specialist audience.
Work & learning
A public StoryMap that brings research, mapping and storytelling together. The case study links to the map and includes a preview. The work is a synthesis of existing sources, not a claim of original field sampling.
Related work
Story Map of Tanghin Dam
A public ArcGIS StoryMap connecting plastic pollution, invasive water hyacinths and fishing livelihoods in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.