Plastics on Antarctica
Data Visualization / PERSONAL PROJECT / 2024
Web version
A series of outputs telling a story of who, when, where and how plastic waste reached to the antarctica and the southern ocean. In this online data visualization webpage, I practiced skills such as drawing maps through satellite image data and QGIS system, integrating various scattered research data to a high degree, so that users can easily understand the real situation of plastic pollution in Antarctica through the latest research.
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are subject to increasing levels and diversity of human activities that may severely affect environmental, scientific and historic values within its marine and terrestrial ecosystems and cryosphere.
As an emerging research field, plastic pollution in Antarctica has not been fully studied and has received even less social attention. Therefore, based on the suggestions of scientists, I explore this topic to disseminate some valuable information to the public.
Extract information that is understandable from the literature reviews and original data, and visualize it in a vivid way.
