News
GeoJupyter Blog: Exploring Reproducibility in Geospatial GUIs Through Code Generation
Undergraduate intern Benny Szeghy describes the benefits of Map2Cell for enabling reproducibility in GUI-driven geospatial workflows.
August 14, 2026
The Daily Californianian: ‘The future of AI’ is away from data centers, UC Berkeley researchers argue
UC Berkeley's student-run newspaper interviews faculty co-director Fernando Pérez about our recent commentary in Nature.
August 14, 2026
Berkeley News: Why we don’t need more data centers to build better AI
UC Berkeley News spotlights our commentary today in Nature on the environmental and scientific benefits of open source AI models.
August 11, 2026
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