Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at UC Berkeley

📢Today in Science Magazine! New research from DSE & Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory finds that four global policies could eliminate more than 90% of plastic waste & 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050. 💡 Explore our findings and vision for action: https://lnkd.in/gnhxKb47 The timing is critical: in just two weeks global decision makers & UNEP will meet to finalize the first-ever international legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. Our research shows it’s possible to nearly END global plastic pollution if policymakers take action. Thank you DSE team authors Sam Pottinger, Ciera Martinez, PhD, Magali de Bruyn, and Carl Boettiger alongside our team of experts at UCSB including Neil Nathan, Molly Morse, and more! #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticPollution

This week (August 5-14), representatives from the United Nations will begin final negotiations to establish a global treaty on plastic pollution.   While there are many pathways to reducing global plastic pollution, DSE & Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory are revisiting our recent findings that revealed a package of four key policies—working together across the entire plastic lifecycle—could nearly end plastic pollution. By 2050 this policy package would: ♻️ Reduce mismanaged plastic waste by up to 91%, AND 🌞 Cut associated greenhouse gasses by 1/3   Our interactive simulation projects annual global plastic pollution that will be generated in 2050 under different scenarios, piled on top of Manhattan for scale. Left: If no action is taken, the annual plastic pollution generated in 2050 would be nearly double - growing to 121 million metric tons. Right: Under a high ambition treaty, the annual plastic pollution generated in 2050 could be cut by more than 90% - dropping down to 10.8 million metric tons. Explore the full interactive visualization at https://lnkd.in/gKAF5Rzs. For more on our findings in Science Magazine, check out: https://lnkd.in/gwyvJ939 #EndPlasticPollution

🎉 Congrats to Lucia Layritz, DSE postdoctoral researcher, for her new research in Biogeosciences that examines how climate change and increasing disturbances, like wildfires, are impacting the future of boreal forests. Lucia completed this research as part of her dissertation at the School of Life Science, Technical University of Munich. Boreal forests span North America, Europe, and Asia, and are characterized by cold-tolerant coniferous forests. Lucia’s study explores how these forests, currently dominated by spruces and pines, are changing over time. For example, Lucia found that: 🌲 Warming effects can lead to denser forests. 🌲Disturbances (like fires) reduce tree cover in favor of shrubs and grasses. 🌲Together, warming temperatures and disturbances can lead to a reduction of coniferous trees, and a consequent expansion of deciduous varieties. Explore Lucia's findings: https://lnkd.in/gC5zvQb9 @European Geosciences Union (EGU) 📸 National Park Service

📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Our slate of 3 amazing invited speakers Fernando Pérez, Tasha Snow, and Julia Stewart Lowndes is now locked in 🤩 Can't wait to see you there 😁 Submissions are due 🔥📅⏰ Wednesday, July 30 ⏰📅🔥 ! Visit our website for more details and to submit: https://lnkd.in/g_JvCiWU Qiusheng Wu Dr. Chelle Gentemann Tyler Erickson Max Jones Wilson Sauthoff

📣 Call for Submissions: AGU Session on "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud" 🌍 The GeoJupyter team invites you to submit your work to an exciting AGU session focused on the innovative use of open-source geospatial workflows in cloud environments. Join us in exploring cutting-edge practices and tools that are shaping the future of geospatial data. Submit here: https://lnkd.in/gkDEHpat Submissions due Wednesday, July 30! Invited speakers: Fernando Pérez, Tasha Snow, Julia Stewart Lowndes Session convener: Qiusheng Wu, Max Jones, Dr. Chelle Gentemann, Tyler Erickson, Wilson Sauthoff Organizer: Matt Fisher #geospatial #opensource #jupyter #AGU25

📣 We're #hiring a full-time Administrative Manager! Apply now to lead operations, event planning, and day-to-day administrative support for our team. First review date is July 11: https://lnkd.in/gdCYdX4g In this role, you will: - Lead, in consultation with Executive Director, long term operational planning and execution including but not limited to: human resources, office and space management, finance, purchasing, reimbursement, travel planning, student services, communications and outreach, and field operations. - Administer facilities and space logistics and manage equipment needs.  - Support faculty to prepare and submit non-standard or unusually complex grant proposals then, if funds are awarded, track budgets, resolve financial discrepancies, and monitor expenditures.  - Supervise a small team of support employees and/or students. - Assist with event planning, coordination with campus or college development staff, and contact with foundation program officers.  - Coordinate and participate in a variety of human resources activities including employment, training, classification, and ensuring the completion of forms and documents related to HR and Payroll for unit/department. Anticipated salary range is $80,400 - $99,000. 📸 UC Berkeley by Mathew Burciaga

Congrats to Dr. Kristin Davis, a postdoc on our team, who is the lead author of new paper that found Eastern screech-owls are responding to their environment in the Fort Collins, CO area in unexpected ways. 🦉 Screech-owls are small and adorable (we're biased!) birds that are relatively common in eastern North America, but are understudied by scientists in the portion of their range where Ft. Collins is located. Key among Kristin's findings: screech-owls were more likely to colonize some riparian areas (the lands along a major river in town) but less likely to persist there over time. Kristin and co-authors Rob Sparks, Abigail Feuka, and Dr. Liba Pejchar hope the findings will support local habitat management. For more on this study, check out: https://lnkd.in/gxuzUujp 📸 Rob Sparks, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

🥳 Check out this fantastic story in Grist on DSE's latest agriculture research, featuring Sam Pottinger! Sam discusses our team's open source tool & findings with the University of Arkansas that depicts opportunities and challenges for US corn farmers and insurance companies in the face of climate change. Our research identifies ways to improve financial security for both farmers and insurance companies, and benefit the environment into the future. Read the full story 📰 https://lnkd.in/gCMs8mfW Explore our tool 🌽 https://lnkd.in/dybGcxzk #OpenSource #DataScience #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity

🎉 Published today! We're proud to announce our new study with the University of Arkansas in the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation that identifies ways to improve financial security for US farmers and crop insurance companies and help mitigate climate change: https://lnkd.in/djQTE-a6 At DSE we’re committed to creating accessible data science tools so that more users can explore and learn from our work. Check out our team's findings in our new AI interactive tool, also released today: https://lnkd.in/dybGcxzk 🌽 Thanks so much to our team and our partners for collaborating on this important work with us! #AI #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity #DataScience #ClimateScience #OpenSource

Join our team! We're hiring a postdoctoral researcher to study extreme heat impacts on cattle and other animals. Do you have a PhD in agricultural science, animal science, environmental science, and/or data science? First review is 5/7 - apply today: https://lnkd.in/gvTJh8Xz DSE is currently hiring three full-time roles: two postdocs and one staff position. See all postings here: https://lnkd.in/gNQEmJrm #Hiring #Postdoc #AgriculturalScience #AnimalScience #EnvironmentalScience #DataScience