Projects
Global Policy Solutions
DSE is leading key projects in the US and internationally that provide decision-makers with necessary data, tools, and training to address the climate and biodiversity crisis.
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End Plastic Pollution
Providing UN negotiators and the general public with an AI-powered tool that reveals a world without plastic pollution is possible
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Scale Sustainable Agriculture
Creating open source tools to depict sustainable agriculture’s economic and environmental benefits and developing a public database for studying crop yield and stability
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Reduce the Worst Greenhouse Gases
Developing interactive scientific tools for governments in 144 countries as they design greenhouse gas-reducing projects
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Pathways to Collaborative Land Management
Schmidt DSE is collaborating with Tribes, local officials, and national agencies on land management opportunities that leverage traditional ecological knowledge and innovative data science.
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Co-Design Indigenous Environmental Stewardship
Supporting Indigenous and local communities as central agents in environmental management by leveraging traditional ecological knowledge & technology
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Address Water Scarcity
Developing an AI-powered product that provides free, life-saving snow and water data to global water managers, scientists, and the public
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Improve Wildfire Recovery
Pilot testing a tool in Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave National Reserve that allows land managers to rapidly assess and respond to wildfires
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Democratize Geospatial Data Analysis
Building a new community to support development of new open source tools to vastly improve collaboration, efficiency, accessibility and reproducibility in geospatial data analysis
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