Marianne Cowherd

I am a PhD candidate and DOE CSGF Fellow in the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, where I study climate science and the cryosphere. Most of my work deals with nonstationarity in snow and water systems -- both the problems this causes and the potential solutions. I sit in the Girotto and Stephens Labs and work with the BAIR climate initiative on increasing collaborations between environmental scientists and computer scientists to improve applications of computing tools in environmental solutions. Specific topics include the atmospheric drivers of snow droughts, post-fire hydrology, and machine learning applications in snow pattern repeatability shift. I am generally interested in how nonstationarity impacts environmental observations and in particular our ability to understand change.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I earned undergraduate and masters degrees at Stanford University as part of the Bob & Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, where I worked on oscillatory wave-current boundary layers.

I enjoy running, soccer, and word games. I previously worked in miRNA alignment research with miRcore.