Precise maps mosaiced from aeronautical charts have been produced to include what UNEP documents call "land-based sources of pollution", or all possible terrain for drainage, for each regional sea.
Such detailed hydrometric-area mapping has been conducted for the British Isles, New Zealand, Italy, parts of the Eastern Europe and both North and South America.
In 2000, he was part of the three person show Ecologies[4] at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago with Mark Dion and Dan Peterman.
Each artist "explored interrelationships between organisms and their surrounding"[5] and Fend's featured work was titled China Basin Plans: The River Dragon Breathes Fire.
The New York Times has called his work "A blend of Conceptual art, activism and entrepreneurship, it proposed tackling environmental problems through an application of art-as-design.