Elizabeth M. Berg, PhD
Principal Scientist & Project Leader
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Technical program leader with 10+ years of experience guiding complex R&D and mission-driven technical efforts across national laboratories, universities, and federal partners. Proven ability to organize geographically dispersed teams, align customer and stakeholder needs, and translate technically challenging sensing, analysis, and systems problems into executable plans, reviews, deliverables, and decisions. Brings a strong combination of systems thinking, mission assurance rigor, budget and schedule discipline, quantitative analysis, and hands-on experience integrating data, simulation, field operations, and scientific communication.
Adept at communicating complex findings to diverse audiences. I champion team members’ scientific successes to create actionable outcomes for stakeholders and customers.
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Research
I currently lead teams of geophysical scientists and engineers to develop and evaluate monitoring capabilities throughout the event processing pipeline. My current research passions span data fusion, event characterization, and more.
My PhD work involved regional-scale tomography of Southern California and Alaska, and multiple temporary nodal seismic campaigns to image and assess hazards around the US. I am actively involved in a variety of geophysical and field campaign projects, where I and my teams have the opportunity to thrive from seeing a project from beginning (data collection design) to end (publication). Being able to turn the incredible outside world into actionable data through fieldwork is an incredible opportunity that yields innovative solutions.
Teaching Highlights
& Tutorials
Throughout my PhD I created a number of tutorials, worked with a team of 4 Professors to create a new class (Wasatch in the Field), and assisted in leading an EarthScope workshop session.
Fieldwork
I have helped design, deploy, collect, and process data from seismic nodal instruments, broadband seismometers, geophones, microbarometers, and a variety of other geophysical methods.
Nodal fieldwork has taken me from Southern California, including in response to the Ridgecrest earthquakes during the heat of the summer (>120ºF), to Alaska in the middle of winter (-20ºF), and many places in between.
Fieldwork is a hands-on experience that provides unique understanding to a region and prompts new ideas on processing and interpretation.
There’s nothing quite as incredible as exploring our own world!