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Our ability to predict how any given species will respond to the environmental changes that are happening in our world - like extreme temperatures and drought - hinges on a fundamental ecological assumption: the niche conservatism hypothesis. This hypothesis posits that a species' ecological niche, or the set of environmental conditions where individuals can survive and reproduce, remains stable over space and time. But is that assumption too simplistic? 

DSE postdoc Amy Van Scoyoc overviews a robust, lightweight modeling approach that researchers in computer vision, speech recognition, bioinformatics, animal movement, and more may find useful.

Postdoc Lucia Layritz shares insight for researchers pursuing advanced degrees in ecological modeling on the European Geosciences Union (EGU)'s blog.

Ava is pursuing a master's in data reporting at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and joins DSE as a fellow this semester.
 

At DSE, training the next generation of leaders on campus and beyond is core to our mission. At the start of the 2025-26 academic year, we’re thrilled to welcome back Max Taniguchi-King as our new Research Data Analyst, and Carolyn Zhuang and Evan Lingo as Undergraduate Data Science Interns!

Head to the GeoJupyter blog to read about the recent hackathon, which brought together 25 geospatial professionals on campus for a two-day intensive to reimaginge the future of JupyterGIS.

Lucia created a visual time series of the number of "monros" (mountains) over time, and her graphic was included in a recent edition of "The Crunch" newsletter.

Maya Zomer, a postdoctoral researcher on our team, is the lead author of a new paper in Journal of Experimental Botany exploring how Mediterranean shrubs recover after disturbance and their resilience to global change.