Three University of California, Berkeley professors will each receive $1.5 million over the next five years from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the foundation's Data-Driven Discovery Initiative, which was launched to enable new types of scientific breakthroughs by supporting interdisciplinary, data-driven researchers. The three researchers are among 14 new Moore Investigators in Data-Driven Discovery, who together will receive $21 million in unrestricted funds to "harness the unprecedented diversity of scientific data now available and answer new kinds of questions," according to the initiative. Berkeley professor Laura Waller wants to capture less data in less time using inexpensive equipment, but to do so in a smart way that still produces images that are as good as expensive optical and X-ray microscopes. Berkeley professor Joshua Bloom is teaching computers to analyze data in real time to pick out anomalies that may indicate new cosmic phenomena. Berkeley professor Laurel Larsen is modeling ecosystems to understand how local changes in the environment impact larger areas, and how brief events can have long-lasting effects.