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AI Can Move Beyond Data Centers
In a new commentary in Nature Schmidt DSE faculty & researchers posit that open source AI models, which tend to be far more energy efficient than their commercial counterparts and run for free, offer an outside-the-box approach to meeting demands for use.
August 11, 2026
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
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Expand Bioacoustic Data Collection
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- Developed new AI models to detect species of ecological and cultural significance, including coyotes and frogs
- Launched Jupyter Bioacoustic: an open source toolkit for scientists to build bioacoustics pipelines
July 6, 2026
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Accelerate Global Conservation Decisionmaking
The Latest
- The Geospatial LLM-Enabled Navigator (GLEN) is an open source AI assistant that allows decisionmakers to interrogate global data on threatened lands and waters in order to inform conservation policy and action.
- Users can ask the interactive model more complex analytical questions than curre
July 1, 2026