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I'm Ava Hu, a graduating second year in the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. I recently completed my year-long fellowship at DSE and I'm excited to share what I've worked on while on the team. For my spring semester project at DSE, I built a data visualization workflow to compare wildfire reality with media coverage across the United States between 2020 to 2024. My goal was to examine whether news attention aligns with where wildfires actually occur, and to identify states that may be over-covered or under-covered relative to their wildfire activity. Methods To begin the project, I researched...

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! Max previously interned with DSE on the Indigenous Environmental Stewardship team. His new role will help hone vegetation modeling and wildfire recovery tools, in partnership with the National Park Service. A recent graduate from UC Berkeley, Max has a double degree in Data Science and Environmental Earth...

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!