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Our newest AI-powered tools are tailored for policymakers and researchers looking to analyze complex conservation data and collect bioacoustic data at scale.

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.

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.

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...

UC Berkeley faculty and key benefactors are celebrating the near-completion on the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway building, the new home of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS).

Today the Ecological Society of America (ESA) announced Alejandra Echeverri, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and DSE faculty advisor, is a recipient of the 2026 Sustainability Science Award. The award honors “ Biocultural vulnerability of traditional crops in the Indian Trans-Himalaya," which was published in Science Advances last year. According to ESA, this research "makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences." Authors include...

Brashares, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and a DSE faculty advisor, will guide the scientific research and conservation strategy for a new initiative with National Geographic.

Check this recap from the annual Schmidt Sciences communications workshop series (this year with data visualization instruction!) by the Rausser College of Natural Resources.