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EGU Blogs: The existential modeling crisis – and how to overcome it
Postdoc Lucia Layritz shares insight for researchers pursuing advanced degrees in ecological modeling on the European Geosciences Union (EGU)'s blog.
Journalism Fellow, Ava Hu, will grow data visualization skills at DSE
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.
Ava Hu
Ava Hu is a bilingual reporter focusing on data reporting and local accountability stories. She's been working on immigration, climate and public records. She has covered immigration issues for The Guardian. At DSE she is creating data visualizations and other communications materials to help disseminate our research and tools to non-technical audiences.
Welcome back to DSE: Max, Carolyn, and Evan!
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!
Carolyn Zhuang
Carolyn Zhuang is a junior at Berkeley double majoring in Applied Math and Computer Science. At DSE, she is an intern in the Co-Design Environmental Stewardship program, focusing on webscraping, webcrawling, and using Retrieval-Augmented Generation to identify and score retrieved articles. She has previously worked on the Geo-LLM and Makaamkuk MCMC Modeling projects.
GeoJupyter Blog: In-person Hackathon and Design Dialog 2025
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.
Postoc Lucia Layritz featured in the Guardian
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.
DSE Postdoc Maya Zomer Uncovers New Insights into Mediterranean Shrub Resilience
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.
