W. A. Berggren
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Dr. Berggren attended Fordham Preparatory School and Dickinson College. He earned a Masters degree at the University of Houston and a Ph.D. at the University of Stockholm. He completed a post-doctoral year at Princeton University, before spending two years as a research paleontologist with Oasis Oil in Libya. Dr. Berggren settled in Woods Hole in 1965 where he has been a Senior Scientist since 1971. At WHOI, Dr. Berggren is involved in the analysis and interpretation of piston and gravity cores. He has established himself as a force in Plio-Pleistocene correlations.