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 fires and snow hydrology in the Girotto and Stephens Labs. I also work with the BAIR climate initiative on increasing collaborations between environmental scientists and computer scientists to improve applications of computing tools in environmental solutions.

I graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Environmental Systems Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering. At Stanford, I was advised by Oliver Fringer and Stephen Monismith in the Bob & Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, where I worked on oscillatory wave-current boundary layers.

I enjoy running, backpacking, and making science-themed crosswords. I previously worked in miRNA research and personalized medicine education with miRcore.