Portfolio

Published work

Shipwrecks, Sham Papers and False Flags: Tracking the Company Behind It All - Bellingcat, February 19, 2026. Co-authored with Christian Panton, Logan Williams, and Ross Higgins. Investigation into Captain Suniel Kumar Sharma and his network of fraudulent maritime registries - including IMSAG (Guyana), NIATA (Nicaragua), and Nautilus Register - which have issued false flags and paperwork to sanctioned tankers and shadow fleet vessels across multiple jurisdictions.

U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive. - The Intercept, February 17, 2026. Co-bylined with Nick Turse. Used open-source flight tracking data to document delays in U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue after a SOUTHCOM boat strike that killed 11 people. Co-published with Airwars.

How flight tracking data explains failed maritime rescue efforts - Airwars, February 17, 2026. Methodology companion to the Intercept investigation. Details the OSINT techniques - ADS-B flight tracking, coordinate calculation from social media posts, and vessel tracking - used to reconstruct the rescue timeline.

Tracking Your Search: A Guide to the Grid Generator - Bellingcat, August 5, 2024. Co-authored with Galen Reich. Guide to the Bellingcat Search Grid Generator, a tool built with the Discord volunteer community for systematic satellite imagery analysis.

Research contributions:

Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row - Bellingcat, September 10, 2025. Research contribution as part of Bellingcat’s Global Authentication Project.

The civilian impact of Trump’s Venezuela raid - Airwars, January 29, 2026. Contributed to conflict monitoring documentation.

Projects

Oceans of Evidence - Bellingcat Open Source Challenge Series, November 2025. Five maritime OSINT challenges authored for the Bellingcat community platform: Strait Through (vessel geolocation), Terminal Difficulty (port identification), Frozen Assets (sanctions evasion), Cable Conundrum (subsea infrastructure), and Zombies! (shadow fleet vessel tracking).

U.S. Military Strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean - Airwars (ongoing). Conflict monitoring and data visualization tracking U.S. military strikes in the region since September 2025.