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Building tangible, replicable, and inclusive environmental solutions

Our Mission

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE) leverages the power of modern data and environmental science to create a healthy planet where people and nature can thrive.

 

Launched in 2022, the DSE is a partnership between UC Berkeley's Rausser College of Natural Resources and the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, with the financial support of Eric and Wendy Schmidt.

News

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Work with the Grantham Lab

Looking for a postdoc position? Check out this exciting opportunity from ESPM to help lead development of hydrologic models to predict seasonal flow dynamics in California streams. 
 

December 8, 2025
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DSE postdoc and collaborators co-author new paper in Science Advances

Kendall Calhoun, former postdoc in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management is the lead author on a new study in Science Advances that finds human-wildlife conflicts increased during drought. DSE postdoc Amy Van Scoyoc and faculty advisor Justin Brashares contributed to this research.

November 13, 2025