Andrew Schoenen

Andrew Schoenen is a senior at UC Berkeley double majoring in Computer Science and Ecosystem Management and Forestry. At DSE, he is an intern working on creating tools to more intuitively visualize and understand the changing ranges of Joshua Trees, and to better track their movement in the context of wildfire recovery and changing climate conditions.

Outside of DSE, he is deeply passionate about creating tools that help others pursue their passions more intuitively and effectively, and about leveraging technology to support environmental work. While most people might assume that Forestry and Computer Science are unrelated fields, he is excited to pursue a thesis focused on developing smarter machine learning algorithms to automatically collect ground fuels from retail LiDAR scans of Brown’s Transects, making faster forestry data collection more accessible to researchers.