Aleka Agre:
Citizen Researcher
For my final this semester, I’ve been creating a 60-second video that’s a combination of interviews and animations to highlight and help introduce people to the Citizen Researcher project. This project is a Sea Level Change Digital Elevation APP that’s currently in development by David and Denise Holland that will allow anybody who wants to participate to collect scientific data by recording their location and the date to help create a detailed map of the land surface elevation of the UAE.
Working on scientific projects like this that have real-world implications is such a privilege and I’m excited to continue to work on more visualizations for and with scientists in the future.
Thwaites Glacier: Icefin Robot
This is the final version of the Thwaites Glacier Icefin Robot animation that I made for David and Denise Holland. The main goal of this project is to help high school students gain an interest in climate science, not as a topic of doom and gloom, but as an exciting exploration of the planet in new ways never seen before.
Through this project, I learned a lot about Thwaites and the amazing robot, the Icefin, which are both incredibly interesting and so important to understand the changes happening on the planet today. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to work on this project and I’ve really enjoyed being a part of it.
For anyone interested in learning more about either Thwaites or the Icefin you can check out this link or if you want to see the full, unedited footage from the Icefin under Thwaites you can find that here.
”Georgia Tech News Front Page,” Georgia Institute of Technology 2 Apr. 2015
“Icefin Robotic Vehicle at the Seafloor under the Ross Ice Shelf.” Georgia Tech, Youtube, 4 Apr. 2015
“PBS NewsHour.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 19 Feb. 2020,
“Thwaites Glacier.” ITGC Thwaites Glacier
Other Projects
I’ve also done a wide variety of work for many different types of clients using After Effects, Illustrator, and Photoshop as illustrated here:
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