Kat Millage

Kat Millage

Fisheries | marine conservation | data science | science communication

Much of my professional work is geared towards informing fishery managers and other fishery stakeholders, and thus I regularly create visualizations and tools to make the the findings of my work more accessible to non-academic audiences. These types of products include illustrative graphics, technical reports, and interactive web-based applications built using Shiny.


Shiny Apps

I was the lead developer for the following interactive web-based applications built using Shiny:

Title URL Year
SubsidyExplorer: A decision-support tool to improve our understanding of the ecological and economic effects of reforming fisheries subsidies http://www.subsidyexplorer.org/ 2021
The Distant Water Fishing Atlas http://www.dwfsubsidyatlas.org/ 2021
NutriCast: A web-based tool to explore forecasted nutritional gains from marine fisheries and mariculture reforms under climate change https://emlab-ucsb.shinyapps.io/nutricast/ 2020
ACP Atlas of Distant Water Fishing https://emlab-ucsb.shinyapps.io/SubsidyAtlasACP/ 2019
Cost and Performance Drivers of Electronic Fisheries Monitoring: An interactive toolkit to explore cost and performance tradeoffs of implementing electronic monitoring in fisheries https://emlab-ucsb.shinyapps.io/EM-toolkit/ 2018

I have also developed and contributed to a number of other Shiny apps that are not included here because they were built for clients under contract. Please contact me directly by email if you would like to know more about my experience with Shiny app development.


Graphics

Many of the infographics, conceptual diagrams, and other graphics I make are figures or visual abstracts for scientific papers or presentations. The following are a few examples of the types of graphics I have created (click on the image to open a larger version):

Mexico community-based management infographic Cell-based seafood infographic
Model schematic Marine ecosystem infographic

About

Kat Millage is a researcher at the Enivonmental Markets Lab (emLab) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.