News

DSE is heading to D.C. for the upcoming World Bank Conference: Measuring Development 2025: Biodiversity on Land and at Sea on April 29th.

Join our team to support our work with the National Park Service. This full-time role is responsible for analyzing and preparing vegetation monitoring data. First review is 4/29!

Over 35 graduate students from departments across campus participated in the workshop at DSE

Check out the lastest post on the GeoJupyter blog about a new workflow we're building in JupyterLab to improve a common source of friction for users.

McKalee Steen, DSE team member and ESPM PhD candidate, is studying land return to US Indigenous communities, and the social and ecological impacts of those land acquisitions. 

Check out the latest innovative conservation research from the UC Berkeley Stone Center, which two DSE team members contribute to. 

We are seeking one postdoc with experience in data science and agriculture, agroecology, agricultural economics, and/or agricultural policy.

DSE's 2024 annual report highlights our recent successes in cutting-edge data and environmental science.

• Co-designing an AI visualization tool and data platform with a California Tribe to monitor local biodiversity
• Testing a suite of AI tools for land managers to rapidly assess and respond to wildfires in the California desert
• Developing an AI policy tool and interactive model that furthered negotiations to end global plastic pollution

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GeoJupyter is a community-owned effort to reimagine geospatial interactive computing experiences for education, research, and industry.

Last month DSE participated in the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia (COP16). COP16 was the world’s largest biodiversity event to date. It builds on the inaugural COP in 1994 and the global conferences that have followed since. 

Read a spotlight on our research re: ending global plastic pollution in the Associated Press.

Ahead of global plastic treaty negotiations in North Korea, see DSE's research on opportunities to end plastic pollution featured in NPR.

Check out DSE's research on ending plastic pollution in the New York Times (November 2024).

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of our paper in Science: Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This paper distills over a year's work from our team with the ultimate goal to inform and inspire decision-makers on the global stage during the UN Plastics Treaty process.

Check out DSE's latest research on ending plastic pollution in Newsweek. 

The Guardian features DSE's recently-published Science paper on ending plastic pollution.

What: At DSE we combine the power of computing and environmental science with open science principles and a commitment to inclusivity—all towards the purpose of building tangible, replicable, and accessible solutions to environmental problems. 

Join the conversation at "Tech for TEK: Implementing Biodiversity Conservation with AI, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty" on Monday, October 28 in Cali, Colombia.

EcoTech Connect is a dedicated space for all the UC Berkeley community of researchers of all skill levels to come together and explore the technical best practices shaping environmental science. The primary focus is on reproducible data analysis, cutting-edge methods in environmental research, software engineering, and collaborative programming. By engaging in these discussions, participants will gain insights into the "why" behind these practices, emphasizing the rationale and long-term benefits rather than just the technical steps.

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley (DSE) has three exciting new open opportunities to join our growing team!

Communications Manager

The Communications Manager will help to clearly and effectively share our work with a variety of audiences including stakeholders, funders, researchers, students, and the wider community. 

Data Visualization Developer

We are happy to share our 2023 annual report that highlights a foundational year for the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment and the work we are engaged in.

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE) at UC Berkeley, along with an opportunity from our partners in the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center for Large Landscape Conservation, is accepting applications for multiple postdoc positions from recent PhDs in environmental science and/or data science fields interested in providing domain specific research that informs the development of data enabled solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges.