Four Corners Mapping Profiled in Esri’s StoryScape
On the heels of being a finalist in the 2023 ArcGIS StoryMap Competition, Four Corners Mapping was profiled as the Featured Storytellers in the February edition of Esri’s StoryScape.
Learn how Four Corners Mapping, American Rivers, and local partners combined forces on the StoryMaps platform to follow the endangered Colorado River and its impacts downstream through the Grand Canyon.
"A Grand Collaboration" tells the story behind the story, and offers a behind the scenes look at how I teamed up with various partners, including Sinjin Eberle, Communications Director of American Rivers, to tell this yet-untold story.
“For me, as for so many others, the Grand Canyon is my favorite place in the world. I have worked, backpacked, rafted, fished, spent time with friends and family, and had my geology field camp there — imagining those experiences without a flowing Colorado River was, well, unimaginable.”
Read on for some sneak peaks from the article!
The first slide in Caught in the Middle is a gorgeous photo by Amy S. Martin Photography taken from the bottom of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River flowing into the distance. As the reader scrolls, the image blurs radially, maintaining focus on the river, and a map of the Colorado River Basin is overlaid on the image. Right out of the gate, this effect marries the beauty and majesty of the Colorado River with the vastness of the geography of its basin and all those that depend on its continued flow.
When I saw Sinjin’s 2022 photo of Lone Rock at Lake Powell standing high and dry with nary a drop of water in sight and another photo taken from the same vantage with the rock surrounded by water in 2017, I knew that I wanted to use the swipe block to show the difference between the two images.
