About

Who is Rhizocarpon?

James McKeown is a graduate of the University of Guelph, the Centre of Geographic Sciences, and a student of Dalhousie University with fifteen years of data analysis experience.

Why Rhizocarpon?

“Rhizocarpon Geographicum is known as Map Lichen.

“A lichen is a hybrid colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among filaments of multiple fungus species, along with bacteria embedded in the cortex or”skin”, in a mutualistic relationship.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

There’s a metaphor for working in the open source ecosystem in there somewhere.