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Health Medicine Net's recent story on DSE's commentary in Nature and interview with Berkeley News.

A reshare of Packaging Insights' story on our recent Science publication that proposes a global reporting framework within the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty.

A feature on faculty co-director Doug McCauley's recent paper in Science regarding the United Nations' ongoing Global Plastics Treaty negotiations.

Undergraduate intern Benny Szeghy describes the benefits of Map2Cell for enabling reproducibility in GUI-driven geospatial workflows.

UC Berkeley's student-run newspaper interviews faculty co-director Fernando Pérez about our recent commentary in Nature.

UC Berkeley News spotlights our commentary today in Nature on the environmental and scientific benefits of open source AI models.

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.

Our Fire Disturbance Severity Tool with the National Park Service is featured in UC Berkeley News.

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.

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.

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.

Schmidt DSE developed a data visualization depicting current, historic, and potential oil drilling impacts in the Amazon Reef that was published in this UK-based media outlet.

Schmidt DSE developed a data visualization depicting current, historic, and potential oil drilling impacts in the Amazon Reef that was published in this Brazilian cultural magazine.

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...