Berkeley Earth Team

Judith is an entrepreneurial executive with extensive experience in both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Judith combines a big-picture, strategic approach with detail-oriented, hands-on delivery, to achieve long-term, sustainable structure and funding for a variety of organizations. Her leadership roles include CEO, Executive Director, and Development Director of five successful NPOs, co-founder of three others, as well as for-profit positions as regional director of two European retail corporations, a licensed equities broker, and strategy and institutional funding consultant. Judith has served on the boards of directors of numerous organizations including CleanTech Open, The Institute for Clinical Excellence – Africa (ICE-Africa), YMCA, OIC, and PulpWorks, among others. Judith earned simultaneous degrees in political science/international relations and mathematics/statistics from the University of Illinois. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Elizabeth is the co-founder and Executive Director of Berkeley Earth. She has led the organization from the founding to the original land-temperature data collection and analysis, to analysis on mitigation of global warming, and the more recent addition of global air pollution data collection and analysis. Elizabeth is also the co-founder and CEO of Deep Isolation, which is addressing the unsolved nuclear waste problem through innovative technology and a new approach to stakeholder engagement. Previously, she was Director at Gov3 (now CS Transform) and Executive Director of the Gov3 Foundation. From 2000 to 2005 she was a policy advisor at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Elizabeth has advised governments in over 30 countries, in both the developed and developing world. She has extensive experience with stakeholder engagement and communications, especially with regard to technical issues. She developed numerous techniques for bringing government and private actors together to build consensus and implement action plans, and has a proven ability to deliver sustainable change. She has also designed and implemented projects for public sector clients, helping them to build new policies and strategies for government reform and modernization, collaboration across government ministries and agencies, and strategies for the information society.

Richard Muller is Professor of Physics emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, co-founder and scientific director at Berkeley Earth, and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Deep Isolation Inc., a company that proposes disposal of nuclear waste in deep horizontal drillholes.

Rich has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize (for the discovery of Dark Energy), MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award (for cosmic microwave anisotropy, atmospheric correction for astronomy, and for the invention of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry), the Texas Instruments Foundation Founders Prize, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize. His class was voted best course on the Berkeley campus in all fields. He was named by Newsweek as one of top 25 innovators in the US in 1989. In 2011 he was cited by Atlantic Magazine as one of 21 Brave Thinkers, based on his work for Berkeley Earth. Foreign Policy Magazine cited him in 2012 as a top Global Thinker. Poder Business Magazine gave him a 2012 Courage Award. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the California Academy of Sciences. He is the author of over 120 scientific articles and ten books, including Physics for Future Presidents, Energy for Future Presidents, and Now, the Physics of Time.

While Rich is best known for his work in astrophysics and geophysics, he also spent over a decade researching paleoclimate. His primary interest was in the Milankovitch cycles, and is the author of a technical book “Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes” (co-author: the late Gordon MacDonald), published by Springer, which emphasizes methods of mathematical climate analysis. He published a series of papers on the subject in Nature, Science, Geology, Paleoceanography and elsewhere, and was a referee for the National Academy of Sciences on IPCC work.

He has over three decades of high level advising to the US Government (Dept. of Energy, NASA, Dept. of Defense, others) on science and technology issues relating to energy and national security.

He has been married to Rosemary Muller for over 50 years, and has two daughters, Elizabeth and Melinda. He refers to Elizabeth, who is the CEO of both Berkeley Earth and Deep Isolation, as “my boss.”

Kristen brings over a decade in strategic communications design across healthcare, energy, and tech. Entrepreneurial and creative, with strong client relations, business development, and management experience, Kristen is passionate about designing comprehensive brand and product strategies that elevate paradigm-shifting value propositions to drive engagement and create positive change. She holds degrees in Molecular Biology and English Literature from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from Hult International Business School, where she was the recipient of the Social Impact Scholarship.

Kari is a veteran daily news reporter and editor with a passion for telling compelling stories that help people better understand the world and improve their lives. She’s spent the past 10 years of her career focused on social media, blogging and communications and marketing projects, guiding growth at several startup companies and for a global solar manufacturer. She’s an avid outdoorswoman who spends as much time as possible hiking the hills around the San Francisco Bay Area or swimming in the Pacific Ocean.

Marie Mosimann has over 10 years of experience supporting various small businesses in the Bay Area as a Project Manager and Executive Assistant. Resourceful and creative, she has a knack for simplifying processes and increasing efficiency in small businesses.