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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
The Latest
- 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
From the GeoJupyter Blog: Announcing jupyter-tiler
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.
June 22, 2026
DeSmog: Drilling in the Mouth of the Amazon: How Brazil’s Oil Giant Is Drowning Out Critics
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.
June 17, 2026
Piauí: War of Narratives
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.
June 16, 2026
Michael Catchen
Michael is a Data Scientist/Research Software Engineer at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment, working on building open infrastructure and pipelines for bioacoustic monitoring. Specifically, he currently works on the Soundhub platform for managing and analyzing bioacoustic data, and modular tools for building bioacoustics pipelines in Jupyter.
June 10, 2026
