Lucy Roberts

Researcher | Cartographer | Writer

About Me

About Me



  • Anticipated graduation: June 2023
  • Current employer: UO Infographics Lab
  • Favorite projection: Dymaxion Map





Hello, my name is Lucy and I am a spatial data science major with a minor in global health at the University of Oregon's Clark Honors College. Prior to matriculating into college, I was an exchange student in Thailand, an experience that gave me an appreciation for exploring new cultures and worldviews. I am especially interested in the intersections of art, geography, health, and culture.

Oxford Human Rights Fellow

Attended 2022 Consortium on Human Rights at Oxford University and learned from top leaders and activists on human rights in and around areas of conflict. Co-presented discussion on Cahoots, a policing alternative based in Oregon.

Trussell Family Scholar

Research award for my work on the research project "Using Python to quantify vaccine accessibility in Detroit, MI," as well as academic merit and an interest in a career serving humanity.

NACIS Scholarship Recipient

"This award recognizes that, through the student’s coursework, they will have demonstrated excellence in print or digital cartography, involvement in cartographic research, or activity in cartographic outreach."

Edward C. Sargeant III Scholar

Awarded to one pre-healthcare student annually who "combines the qualities of idealism, commitment to humanity, openness to alternatives, love of the outdoors, and an interest in preserving the environment."

My Resume

My Resume

Education

University of Oregon, Clark Honors College

2019 - present

Spatial data science major & global health minor

Coursework: GIScience 2, Adv. Cartography, computer science, the ethics of working internationally, data science, and honors research

Singsamut High School

2018 - 2019

Exchange student

Lived in Thailand as a Rotary Exchange Student
Learned to speak and write Thai with an emphasis on cultural exchange

Volunteer Experience

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Volunteer mapper and verifier

Manually outlined and verified thousands of buildings and roads in previously unmapped regions.

RiseUp Southern Oregon

Interim volunteer coordinator and donation manager

Coordinated donation sites and volunteer hours in my hometown for a mutual aid network following the 2020 fires

Professional Experience

Undergraduate Cartographer

2020 - Present

Infographics Lab, UO Dept. of Geography

  • Worked with a diverse group of research partners to process, normalize, and display spatial and non-spatial data
  • Manipulated data and their visualizations in multiple software and programming languages including Excel, ArcGIS Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Python, and HTML5
  • Contributed to software development testing and developed tutorial to integrate ArcGIS for Adobe extension into lab workflow

Product Engineer

Summer, 2022

Esri

  • Participated as a scrum member on the ArcGIS for Adobe development team, proposing enhancements and logging bugs
  • Integrated Adobe Illustrator into an automated regression testing framework using JSX and Adobe's Common Extensibility Platform

Case Investigator

2020 - 2021

Josephine County Public Health

  • Called, educated, and checked on COVID-19 cases in rural Oregon
  • Worked closely with public health officials to stay on top of newest developments and procedures in COVID-19 response

Skills

Cartographic software

ESRI Suite
Geopandas
Mapbox

Languages

Thai- Advanced
Arabic- Beginner
French- Beginner

Programming

Python
HTML, JS, and CSS
MATLAB

Research

Project management
Problem solving
Collaboration

In the news

In the news

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Attending Stanford's Women in Data Science Conference

Another speaker, Maria Gargiulo... explained how she uses data science to estimate undocumented human rights violations. Lucy Roberts... was thrilled; not only was she passionate about social justice issues, but she would also be traveling to the United Kingdom to attend the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights in just a few days... Roberts clacked away on her laptop, drafting an email asking Gargiulo if they could meet.

UO CHC Newsletter

Historical mystery over Cayuse Five: Oregon students advance the search for answers

“After months of research, students at the University of Oregon have narrowed potential sites where they think five Cayuse men were buried or reburied after they were hanged for the death of missionary Marcus Whitman."

The Oregonian

2022 NACIS Scholarship Winner

"NACIS was pleased to award the 2022 NACIS Undergraduate Student Scholarship in Cartography to Lucy Roberts. . . The NACIS Student Scholarship in Cartography awards an annual scholarship to an accomplished undergraduate student who is majoring in geography or a closely related field while concentrating their course work in cartographic or visualization design or research."

NACIS Newsletter

Searching for the remains of the Cayuse Five

“The fact that we do not collectively know the burial sites of the Cayuse Five stands in the way of the prospect of repatriation, of justice, of reconciliation, or whatever else we who are living may decide is the wisest course of action,” said Michael Moffitt, the University of Oregon Law School professor

The Register-Guard

My Portfolio

My Portfolio

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  • All
  • Personal Projects
  • Infographics Lab
  • Writing Samples
A map of the US showing American Regional Dishes. The US stands in a stark orange against a bright teal ocean.

America's Regional Dishes

A map I designed and created for my internship at Esri

Lucy smiling standing in front of the moat of the White Temple

Lalisa Day to Day

My travel blog from my year abroad

A series of wireframes showing a sunscreen reminder app. The label shows it was made for the Esri Intern Hackathon.

UVengers App

An app developed in three days for the intern hackathon

Map of 5 deer migrations across different land ownership in Yellowstone

PEW Migration Report

Images I contributed to the Wyoming Migration Initiative's PEW research report

Map of the migration of a deer named Jo through Colorado.

Twitter Maps

A series of maps for the Wyoming Migration Initiative.

screenshot of an abstract, the words are illegible

Writing sample

Essay investigating Black Counter-Cartography in the Jim Crowe era

Dot Density Map Script

Open source Python script for generating a dot density map

Graph showing waste diversion at the University of Oregon over time

Sustainability dashboard

Contributed to UO sustainability dashboard

Data analysis for Peace Health Bikes

Spatial data analysis

Map and infographics of the 2020 Oregon fire season.

Mapping Fires

Static mapping

Picture of the cover of the Atlas of Yellowstone

Atlas of Yellowstone

Contributed to the second edition of this atlas

Contact Me

Contact Me

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