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Berkeley News: With new digital tools, UC Berkeley researchers are helping Joshua trees survive wildfires
Our Fire Disturbance Severity Tool with the National Park Service is featured in UC Berkeley News.
August 6, 2026
From the Field: Scaling Recovery Efforts for Southern California's Fire-Scarred Ecosystems
Postdoc Lucia Layritz recently traveled to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Channel Islands National Park with the National Park Service (NPS) to assess opportunities for scaling our decision support tools.
July 29, 2026
Latest in Science: Bridging data gaps to support the Global Plastics Treaty
Faculty co-director Douglas McCauley co-authored this study that builds on DSE's ongoing engagement on the United Nations' Global Plastics Treaty. To ensure a strong treaty to end global plastic pollution, the authors recommend strategies to strengthen data reporting.
July 16, 2026
New from DSE: data science tools to scale state and global conservation efforts
Our newest AI-powered tools are tailored for policymakers and researchers looking to analyze complex conservation data and collect bioacoustic data at scale.
July 9, 2026
New Program at UC Berkeley & UC San Francisco Will Drive Advances in Medicine
Faculty Co-Director Fernando Pérez is leading the new Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative with UC San Francisco faculty to accelerate advances in clinical care, using the frontier of AI and biomedicine.
July 7, 2026
From the GeoJupyter Blog: Announcing jupyter-tiler
We recently posted an overview of this new feature in the Jupyter ecoystem, which allows users to interactively explore datasets without leaving the Notebook interface.
June 22, 2026
DeSmog: Drilling in the Mouth of the Amazon: How Brazil’s Oil Giant Is Drowning Out Critics
Schmidt DSE developed a data visualization depicting current, historic, and potential oil drilling impacts in the Amazon Reef that was published in this UK-based media outlet.
June 17, 2026
Piauí: War of Narratives
Schmidt DSE developed a data visualization depicting current, historic, and potential oil drilling impacts in the Amazon Reef that was published in this Brazilian cultural magazine.
June 16, 2026