Board of Directors
e berg 2020
Walter 'Norse' Berg, Ph.D.
President & Executive Director
Chemical Oceanography
Eve Berg, M.S.
Vice President, Photojournalist, Webmaster
Sail Coordinator
Derek Berg, D.O.
Vice President & Co-Executive Director
Sail Director & Mission Coordinator
Elizabeth Sorensen, M.S.
Program Coordinator
Marine Biologist & Science Coordinator
Emily Berg, R.N.
Treasurer & Secretary
Sail Medical Officer
Paul Sorensen, P.E.
Catamaran/Sail Systems
Propulsion, Plumbing, Electrical, Water
Walter 'Norse' Berg, President and Executive Director:
I have worked with some wonderful people in creating this program. We each come to this effort for our own reasons and our own convictions, not the least being our own deep concern for the Earth. I am certainly here for that reason but also because of Devyn, Kieran, Luke, Kayla, and Kendall. It's straight forward to me and deeply personal. I do not want to pass to my five grandchildren a severely damaged planet that is too hot and destroyed to live on. I absolutely must act to do something ...as we all must do in some way. There is no Planet B.
I bring a skill-set I hope will help in getting something done for the Earth. My whole life has been on the ocean, by the ocean, under the ocean, and over the ocean while conducting research in each of these areas. Science really matters as does truth. I have a B.S. in chemistry, a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography and a deep abiding love and respect for the 71% of our planet called the ocean. We live on a water planet. I've been sailing on it and diving in it pretty much my entire life, at least since I took my first steps. I am a NAUI/PADI diving instructor with hundreds of alumni divers. I've done many research and dive cruises on my life's path. In a NOAA ground-breaking ocean-research expedition I conducted experiments and lived on the seafloor in the Bahamas for a week in the undersea habitat Hydrolab.
Sailing is my passion and catamarans are my favorite vehicle. My early days of sailing were off Monterey and Santa Cruz in the Pacific on monohulls. My wife and family started cruising the Caribbean beginning in the British Virgin Islands. There have been many family sailing adventures since the early 80's from the BVI and south down the Caribbean chain. Now our entire family are sailors with three of the best being less than 18 years old.
My ocean path has not been straight. It has included several detours, including the U.S. Army as Commanding Officer of an infantry company during the Vietnam era. I arrived in Boulder, Colorado on a National Science Foundation (NSF) post-doctoral fellowship and spent almost ten years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as a research scientist. All of my research funding during this period came exclusively from the NSF (National Science Foundation) and NASA. The SEA program outlined in this website is a descendant of my research programs at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Today, however, the Sea Earth Alliance research effort is completely independent of outside funds. Our support comes exclusively from Sea Earth Alliance, Inc., a Private operating Foundation established for the purposes in this website.
Without a doubt I come to this effort with the greatest of assets. She is also one of the leaders in this whole effort. My wife, Eve, and closest friend for over 50 years, is the single biggest reason I am here now. We are a team focused on making meaningful change really happen for the next generation and beyond.
I bring a skill-set I hope will help in getting something done for the Earth. My whole life has been on the ocean, by the ocean, under the ocean, and over the ocean while conducting research in each of these areas. Science really matters as does truth. I have a B.S. in chemistry, a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography and a deep abiding love and respect for the 71% of our planet called the ocean. We live on a water planet. I've been sailing on it and diving in it pretty much my entire life, at least since I took my first steps. I am a NAUI/PADI diving instructor with hundreds of alumni divers. I've done many research and dive cruises on my life's path. In a NOAA ground-breaking ocean-research expedition I conducted experiments and lived on the seafloor in the Bahamas for a week in the undersea habitat Hydrolab.
Sailing is my passion and catamarans are my favorite vehicle. My early days of sailing were off Monterey and Santa Cruz in the Pacific on monohulls. My wife and family started cruising the Caribbean beginning in the British Virgin Islands. There have been many family sailing adventures since the early 80's from the BVI and south down the Caribbean chain. Now our entire family are sailors with three of the best being less than 18 years old.
My ocean path has not been straight. It has included several detours, including the U.S. Army as Commanding Officer of an infantry company during the Vietnam era. I arrived in Boulder, Colorado on a National Science Foundation (NSF) post-doctoral fellowship and spent almost ten years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as a research scientist. All of my research funding during this period came exclusively from the NSF (National Science Foundation) and NASA. The SEA program outlined in this website is a descendant of my research programs at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Today, however, the Sea Earth Alliance research effort is completely independent of outside funds. Our support comes exclusively from Sea Earth Alliance, Inc., a Private operating Foundation established for the purposes in this website.
Without a doubt I come to this effort with the greatest of assets. She is also one of the leaders in this whole effort. My wife, Eve, and closest friend for over 50 years, is the single biggest reason I am here now. We are a team focused on making meaningful change really happen for the next generation and beyond.