At Stamen Design, our conservation work sits at the intersection of environmental science, public policy, and visual storytelling. We partner with scientists, park agencies, climate advocacy groups, and government institutions to make critical environmental data relevant, accessible and desirable. From sea-level rise projections and habitat mapping to public park access and urban watershed planning, we design and build tools that help humans see what’s at stake and how it impacts them and the people and places they care about.

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Building a data platform for Natural Capital Project

The Natural Capital Project came to Stamen to help design a data hub with the goal of creating a navigable and open-access resource built on CKAN to support sustainable decision-making. Additionally, the data hub su...

Interacting with plants at the Exploratorium

The Exploratorium reached out to Stamen to help with an installation for their exhibit, ¡Plantásticas!, which provides a unique exploration of the plant world in California through diverse perspectives. We worked with their team to create an eng...

Modeling ecosystems with MPG Matrix

Stamen has a fruitful multi-year relationship with MPG, a 15,000 acre ranch in Montana that specializes in habitat restoration and ecological research. MPG and Stamen collaborate with Dean Pearso...

MPG Ranch Maps

Over the course of our partnership with MPG Ranch, a 15,000 acre property in Montana focused on habitat restoration and ecological research, we’ve created and matured bespoke conservation science tools for the organizatio...

National Audubon Society Survival by Degrees

The birds are in trouble. This was the stark message embedded in the National Audubon Society’s climate report, ...

YBCA Bay Area Now 8 – The Future of Birds and Climate

We were invited to participate in YBCA’s Bay Area Now show and created two pieces showcasing data from the ...

Lake Tahoe in Depth

To support understanding the science of the lake, the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) releases an annual State of the Lake Rep...

National Geographic: Amazonia Under Threat

Since 1915, the National Geographic Society has been making some of the best maps the world has ever seen. So we were honored, humbled, and maybe even a little nervous when we got the opportunity to work closely with the Nat Ge...

Urban Water Blueprint for The Nature Conservancy

Healthy cities need reliable clean water to thrive. But how do we achieve that critical goal of safe, secure water supplies for hundreds of cities all over the world? The Nature Conservancy, working with the C40 Cities Climate ...

National Audubon Society Climate Maps

Climate change, though we know it’s there, is a hard thing to see: it’s slow, it’s invisible, and if you don’t know what you’re looking for, then you might not even miss it once its gone. Birds, ho...