Dr. Ed Berry is CEO of Ed Berry, LLC, in Bigfork, Montana.
He received his BS in Engineering from the Caltech, his MA in Physics from Dartmouth, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Nevada. Berry’s PhD thesis is still cited as a breakthrough in cloud physics and numerical modeling. His model is used in biology, geology, and cosmology.
Berry is an American Meteorological Society Certified Consulting Meteorologist, and a pilot, with glider, power, and instrument ratings. Once, he flew a sailplane into a Nevada storm and then made a zero-zero landing on a Nevada dry lake in a severe dust storm.
He was chief scientist for Nevada’s Desert Research Institute airborne research facility. He led pioneering research flights into Alberta hailstorms and Sierra Nevada mountain storms. He designed the first airborne, earth-referenced radar that predated modern GPS instruments.
He was the only civilian in a Department of Defense top-secret weather modification project in southeast Asia.
Berry was the National Science Foundation’s Program Manager for Weather Modification, where he managed the Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment (METROMEX), National Hail Research Experiment, and other university research projects.
In his private business, he showed the Federal Aviation Administration how to prevent airline crashes caused by severe downdrafts.
He performed the Southern California Desert wind-energy study for the California Energy Commission. He identified Altamont Pass and Tehachapi Pass as excellent wind resources.
Berry used his courtroom numerical model to successfully defend the accused of murder against California Attorney General. He modeled human body responses to heat and humidity inside a box inside a van on a trip from northern to southern California on a hot summer day. His model won the 1993 Microsoft Windows World Open “People’s Choice Award.”
The University of Nevada Alumni Association gave Berry its Professional Achievement Award.
Berry led Montana’s successful fight against the Our Children’s Trust climate lawsuit.
As a graduate student at Nevada, his athletic performance earned him a membership in the elite Sigma Delta Psi national athletic honorary.
He and his wife Valerie as crew won sailing Gold Medals in the 1974 Canadian Olympic Regatta in Kingston, Ontario. They also won US national and North American championships in their high-performance 16-foot centerboard sailboat.
He has placed in the USA Top-10 age-group run-bike-run biathlons and track events. He holds age-group world records in Concept2 rowing.
Dr. Berry speaks, teaches, advises, and consults on climate change.
