I've been thinking about how I could help protect the land and support the communities who depend on it.
These two projects are my first attempts to learn from the people working on these problems and find where I can be useful.
I live on Koh Phangan, and I've watched the island change: new roads, new houses, cleared hillsides. I wondered whether freely available satellite images could help identify places where forest loss might be reaching protected areas.
So I compared imagery from 2019 and 2026 and made a map highlighting places that might warrant a closer look on the ground. It's an initial exploration, not proof of illegal clearing.
I watched a video about a technician repairing a village water pump that had been broken for ten years. It made me wonder how something as basic as a repair could go unresolved for so long, and whether the problem was partly about tracking issues and making sure someone followed up.
AfterWell is a small demo exploring how a broken water point could be tracked until someone takes responsibility for resolving the problem. The data is fictional; the idea is what I'm interested in exploring.
If you work in conservation, water access or community development, I'd love to hear about the problems you encounter and whether anything I've been exploring could be useful. I'm still learning, and I'm interested in understanding what people working on the ground actually need.