Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley
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The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (Schmidt DSE) builds tangible, replicable, and inclusive solutions to environmental problems. https://dse.berkeley.edu/about
Thank you Berkeley News (@uofcalifornia.bsky.social) for featuring our suite of data science tools to support wildfire recovery: news.berkeley.edu/2026/08/05/w... #DataScience #FireRecovery #VegetationModeling #JoshuaTrees #OpenScience #OpenSource
With new digital tools, UC Berkeley researchers are helping Joshua trees survive wildfires - Berkeley News
New software lets national parks in the Mojave Desert quickly assess fire damage — and plan for recovery.
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New on the blog: @lucialayr.bsky.social visited the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area & Channel Islands National Park to assess how our #OpenSource data science tools can improve fire recovery in these arid ecosystems. 🌱 See Lucia's notes & pics➡️ dse.berkeley.edu/news/field-s...
From the Field: Scaling Recovery Efforts for Southern California's Fire-Scarred Ecosystems | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
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 ou...
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The Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway, the new home of CDSS, is nearing completion! This space will foster AI-driven discovery, interdisciplinary collaboration and provide student support as we work to find solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4uJCKbs #UCBerkeley
Kigali Sim is now published in the Journal of Open Source Software! The milestone marks a new chapter for our free, #OpenSource modeling tool w/ @unep.org to help #ReduceEmissions from the worst greenhouse gases. Read: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21... Explore: dse.berkeley.edu/programs/red...
Kigali Sim: Open source simulation toolkit for modeling substances and policies related to the Montreal Protocol
Pottinger et al., (2026). Kigali Sim: Open source simulation toolkit for modeling substances and policies related to the Montreal Protocol. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(121), 10104, https://doi...
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We're thrilled to announce that Professor Alejandra Echeverri is our newest Faculty Advisor! Welcome @ornithoale.bsky.social!! 👏 👏 Full story: dse.berkeley.edu/news/announc... [Image description: Prof. Echeverri wearing black and smiling in front of a light brown wall] @natureatcal.bsky.social
Join us at the UC Open Summit featuring @fernandoperez.org & many other science and technology leaders and experts! #OpenSource #OpenScience
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)@ucbids.bsky.social · 4mo ago⭐ Join BIDS, UC technologists, researchers, staff, and open source maintainers at the UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23 -- with MANY opportunities to learn and share! Get details about guest speakers, panels, & breakout sessions, and register free ➡️ ucospo.net/events/uc-op... #UCOSPO
Congrats @cieramartinez.bsky.social & Maya Weltman-Fahs for winning the "Excellence in Management" Award! 🥳 📰https://dse.berkeley.edu/news/dse-senior-program-managers-receive-excellence-management-award 📸Ciera (pictured in L photo) and Maya (pictured R w/ Lucia Layritz). Credit: Mat Burciaga
Thank you @schmidtfellows.bsky.social & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for attending our workshop on #DataVisualization best practices! 💡Are you a #scientist looking to improve your data visualization game? Check out a our top tips & tool recs: dse.berkeley.edu/news/best-pr... 📸Claudine Gossett
👏 Last year DSE released 7 (!!) #OpenSource #AI tools that are helping advance global environmental #policymaking and improve #LandManagement. See them all in our 2025 annual report! 📘https://dse.berkeley.edu/2025-annual-report #KigaliSim #DataScience #EnvironmentalScience #AIForGood
📣NEW in Mongabay: DSE's McKalee Steen & Magali de Bruyn share insights on how #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge and Indigenous digital sovereignty are key to creating #ResponsibleAI for achieving #conservation and environmental goals. 📰 Read the story now: bit.ly/4bqbrfG
AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them (commentary)
In November, we joined more than 50,000 Indigenous and world leaders, diplomats, scholars and activists at the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Brazil. Some of the most central...
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🥳 We're #Hiring!! Are you a #SoftwareEngineer and/or #DataScientist interested in #biodiversity and #bioacoustics research? 🦉🐸 🐻 This role will build and maintain high-performance computing workflows, data infrastructure, and research software & so much more. Apply now: bit.ly/Bioacoustics...
2025 #wrapped: DSE data viz 📊 🎨 One of our favorites from last year, designed by DSE's Amanda Anderson-You, depicts the inner-workings of "Josh": our new, open source vegetation modeling software codeveloped with the National Park Service. ➡️ dse.berkeley.edu/news/2025-wr... #DataVisualization
If you are into vegetation modeling and disturbance recovery, meet me at #AGU25 this week! ❄️ Oral on disturbance recovery in the boreal forest - Tue, 8:50 - 9:00 tinyurl.com/oralBoreal 🔥 Poster on new approaches in fire recovery modeling - Wed, 14:15 tinyurl.com/joshmodels @schmidtdse.bsky.social
Assessing the Role of Post-Disturbance Recovery in 21st-Century Boreal Forest Vegetation and Carbon Dynamics Using a Dynamic Vegetation Model
Ecosystem disturbances, such as wildfires, windthrows, or biotic attacks, play ...
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Thank you @bigadshaban.bsky.social and Raj Mathai @nbcbayarea.com for featuring @sampottinger.com & the United Nations #KigaliSim tool! Kigali Sim could help some countries ⬇️greenhouse gas emissions by 5% by 2040, developed here @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 📰 www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/u...
UC Berkeley offers tech to United Nations to reduce pollution
A Berkeley mathematician has designed a new, easy-to-use interactive tool to help countries reduce harmful greenhouse gases
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👏Today DSE and @unep.org are thrilled to launch Kigali Sim, an #OpenSource tool to help reduce global #GreenhouseGas #Emissions. Explore how Kigali Sim can improve policymaking under the #MontrealProtocol. 🎥 www.youtube.com/shorts/Yyy3S... #KigaliSim #UnitedNations @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Introducing Kigali Sim: an Open Source, Climate Data Tool for the United Nations
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🌟 BIDS in 2025: Making geospatial data analysis and exploration free, open source, & accessible to everyone @geojupyter.bsky.social led by the teams at BIDS, @schmidtdse.bsky.social, @quantstack.bsky.social, @2i2c.org and @developmentseed.org ➡️ Hackathon highlights - geojupyter.org/blog/2025090...
📣 Our colleague Prof. Ted Grantham is #hiring a postdoctoral researcher to help lead development of hydrologic models & predict seasonal flow dynamics in CA streams. Bonus: you'd get to collaborate with our team! 👩🏻💻 Apply: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05228 #CaliforniaHydrology #JobOpening #NowHiring
Missed #JupyterCon25? You can catch up on YouTube! Check out @mfisher87.bsky.social and @fernandoperez.org's live demo of #GeoJupyter tools to help open and democratize geospatial data analysis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5h7... 📹More from JupyterCon: www.youtube.com/@JupyterCon
GeoJupyter: An Open Community for Accessible, Collaborative, and Interactive... M. Fisher & F. Pérez
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Join @ucbids.bsky.social on 11/20 for a conversation & Q&A about open data science at the state of CA! Details below⬇️
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)@ucbids.bsky.social · 9mo ago📣 OSPO Meetup on Thurs, Nov 20 @ 3:30pm PT -> An open approach to data science at the State of California Meet Monica Bobra (CA Office of Data & Innovation) - Help shape the future of open source at UC Berkeley at a fireside chat, a Q&A session, and community gathering time! 🍿🥤
Great to see you at #COP30, Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social! Magali de Bruyn (R) and McKalee Steen (L) are leading several events @ COP30, including providing recommendations for how Indigenous communities can leverage tech and #DataScience to advance #EnvironmentalStewardship and #Sovereignty.
We're live at #JupyterCon! Here's @mfisher87.bsky.social walking attendees through #GeoJupyter with @fernandoperez.org 🧑🏻💻 🌏 GeoJupyter is an open and community-driven effort to reimagine #geospatial interactive #computing experiences for education, research, & industry: bit.ly/49CMRY1 #GIS #Jupyter
Raise your hand if you're going to #JupyterCon 🙋♀️ See you there @ucbids.bsky.social! #JupyterCon2025 #DataScience
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)@ucbids.bsky.social · 9mo agoThurs, Nov 6 @ 10am PST -> Meet us on Zoom for a live report from #JupyterCon 2025 as part of our OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange! 💡🚀 events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3... @jupyter.org #UCOSPO #OpenSource #OpenScience
Congrats Kristin Davis for her #ecology research that challenges the #NicheConservatismHypothesis: the theory that a species' ecological niche (conditions where individuals can survive and reproduce) remains stable over space & time. 🐦 Findings: bit.ly/3LeZyOL #Europeanstarling #housesparrow
How to overcome an "existential modeling crisis" as a science researcher, from DSE postdoc @lucialayr.bsky.social: ✅ Define modeling in your own words ✅ Embrace validation ✅ Find allies ✅ Trust in "the modeler's mindset" ✅ Draw from other experts 📸 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social by Mathew Burciaga
Welcome Ava Hu to DSE, the newest Journalism Fellow! Ava is a student at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Graduate School of Journalism. At DSE she'll develop data visualizations re: climate change impacts on local and global communities🌎 dse.berkeley.edu/welcome-ava-hu @natureatcal.bsky.social
We’re still buzzing from our #GeoJupyter Hackathon experience - here’s why... Results from working side by side and a focus on the needs of the community! 🌍 🤝 Thanks, @mfisher87.bsky.social and @schmidtdse.bsky.social! bit.ly/3JLLlYR #JupyterGIS #OpenSource #Geospatial @geojupyter.bsky.social
We're thrilled to welcome back Max Taniguchi-King as DSE's new Research Data Analyst, & Carolyn Zhuang and Evan Lingo as Undergraduate Data Science Interns! More on the blog: dse.berkeley.edu/news/welcome... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social
Congrats to DSE postdoctoral researcher @lucialayr.bsky.social for her feature in @australia.theguardian.com last week!
Lucia S. Layritz@lucialayr.bsky.social · 11mo agoSuper honored to have my #TidyTuesday viz featured in last week’s The Crunch newsletter from The Guardian Australia! 🙌 @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
Happy to share that our new paper is now joined by an insight piece from Anna L Jacobsen & R Brandon Pratt giving context on Mediterranean shrub resprouting 🌿🔥 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... plus a blog post summarizing our article! 👇
Legacies of stress and altered disturbance regimes threaten shrubland resilience
This article comments on:Zomer MA, Moreira B, Pausas JG. 2025. Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranea
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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley@schmidtdse.bsky.social · 12mo ago👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social
👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social