Berkeley Statistics has a long history of applications in the physical sciences, ranging from high-energy particle physics and statistical mechanics to cosmology (microwave cosmology, SNIa cosmology), astronomy and astronomical data processing (large-scale inference for optical astronomy surveys, crowded-starfield deblending, galaxy diversity, helioseismology), solid-Earth geophysics (seismology, earthquake risk, geomagnetism, geophysical fluid flow), and climate (global circulation models, tropical cyclogenesis, changes in extreme weather events, impact of climate change, climate models in policy contexts).

Current research interests are focused on atmospheric sciences (carbon monitoring, greenhouse gas emissions, atmospheric rivers), glaciology (mass balance, ice sheet modeling), and ecology (soil organic carbon, historical forest carbon, regenerative agriculture, paleoecology, food webs, endangered species).

We collaborate with a broad range of subject matter experts—including physicists, geophysicists, climate scientists, soil scientists, astronomers, and chemists—in other departments, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and around the world.