Atlas
Atlas
A living map of the ideas, methods, and tools behind the work — sorted into five kinds of thing: writing, interactive explorers, the published record, reference compendiums I keep, and cited datasets. Filter by topic or by type. Some items are still drafts; those are marked, not hidden.
Trails
Guided paths through the Atlas
Three curated routes, each a sequence that builds. Pages on a trail show a ribbon with your position and the next step.
Systems, from zero
No background assumed: the vocabulary, then the space of systems, then the framework applied to the SDGs.
Provenance, demonstrated
The practice's standard, shown on a real number — then the case behind it, the paper, and how an engagement runs.
Play with the math
The recreational route: generate fractals, read the field guide, fly the practice as a graph, then see how this site itself is made.
Timeline
The Atlas, by year
Everything the list view shows, ordered by year — published work by publication year, site-built pieces by the year they went up. Filters apply here too.
Writing
Writing
Essays, notes, and explainers on the ideas and methods behind the work — how a number earns trust, how one person runs a rigorous practice, and where the data itself refuses to agree. Newest first. The two essays are live drafts; the rest are in progress.
Draft entries marked forthcoming are placeholders — titles and framing only, not yet written. They'll link out once the pieces are finished.
Explorers
Explorers
Interactive tools built to be handled, not just read — a phase space you can fly through, fractals you can zoom into, and the practice itself drawn as a graph.
The Dimensionality of Systems
Every system occupies a region in a 3D space of structure, temporality, and chaos. A navigable phase space, hands-on playgrounds, a fuzzy classifier, and a chaos lab — a companion to Zelinka & Daher (2021).
ExplorerSystems scienceComplexity & fractals InteractiveThe practice as a systems map
Every engine, domain, capability, and project in one graph — self-organizing from scatter, held together by provenance. Hover any node to trace what it touches. A prototype.
ExplorerSystems scienceProvenance & AI-trust
Fractal Studio
Zoom into the Mandelbrot and Julia sets — infinite structure from a two-line equation. A hands-on look at how simple rules generate unbounded complexity.
ExplorerComplexity & fractals
Fractals — A Rigorous Field Guide
What a fractal actually is, why the coastline paradox matters, and how self-similarity shows up in nature, markets, and models — with the math kept honest.
ExplorerComplexity & fractalsPublications
Publications
The published record — 16 works in systems science, sustainability, and climate. Two featured below; the full list lives on the publications page.
See the full publications page for all 16, or the list on ResearchGate; a Google Scholar profile link will follow.
Google Scholar profile exists but the public profile URL is unverified — Dave to supply it before this becomes a link.Compendiums
Compendiums
Living reference collections I keep and maintain — cited, source-traceable, updated as the underlying record changes. The glossary is live; the rest are in progress.
Glossary — the terms of art
Fifty-five terms the practice runs on — provenance, cross-impact network analysis, dimensionality, chaos — each defined the way the site and papers use them, with pointers to where each lives.
CompendiumMethodsSystems scienceFuels & emission factors — a cited compendium
A maintained reference of fuel and emission-factor values with the source pinned to each one, so a figure can be traced back to where it came from. Assembled from authoritative open sources.
CompendiumClimate & GHGData & toolingAI tools I've evaluated
A running catalog of AI tools I've tried in the practice — what each is good for, where it needs a verification gate, and where I decided not to rely on it.
CompendiumProvenance & AI-trustData & toolingA tools & methods catalog
The methods and tools I reach for across projects — systems mapping, causal modeling, provenance tracking — collected in one place with notes on when each fits.
CompendiumMethodsData & toolingCompendiums marked in progress don't have public pages yet. They'll open here as they're ready.
Datasets
Datasets
Cited data work — selected, source-traceable releases from the Soma archive, which is in development. These are forthcoming; they'll publish here as individual releases are ready.
Cited emission-factor datasets
Selected, source-traceable emission-factor releases from the Soma archive — each value carrying a citation back to an authoritative open source. Released as individual, versioned datasets.
DatasetClimate & GHGData & toolingOne factor, fully loaded
A single emission factor traced end to end — every source, assumption, and step behind one figure, shown in full. The Soma archive's counterpart to the One number explainer.
DatasetClimate & GHGProvenance & AI-trustDatasets marked forthcoming are part of the Soma archive, which is in development. No unreleased data is shown here.