work/Science

Mapping crop potential in a changing climate

Stamen Design collaborated with Earth Genome in efforts to create a data-driven product in support of the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils. The ...

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...

UCSF Health Atlas

A team from UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity, led by Dr. Debby Oh, hired us to build an online tool to help researchers explore how our environment influences our health at a local ...

Chesapeake Bay Grasses

The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) is a partnership of federal, state, non-profit organizations and academic institutions dedicated to the protection and restoration of Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. Ch...

The Atlas of Emotions for the Dalai Lama & Paul Ekman

After having co-written several books together, the Dalai Lama asked his friend, scientist Dr. Paul Ekman, to design him an Atlas of Human Emotion, and Paul asked us to help him. His Holiness was intrigued by conversations that...

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...

PENNY Machine Learning Tools with Digital Globe

Penny is an AI built by Stamen Design and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University on top of GBDX, DigitalGlobe’s ...

Metagenomics with The Banfield Lab

It’s easy to think that we’ve discovered most of the species on the planet. In fact, the booming field of metagenomics – the study of genomic sequences – is using big data to help scientists better understand ne...