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Dr. Bergstrom is the founder and President of the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. He has both a Phd and a law degree and is a member of the California Bar. Since 1992 he has guided BAER Institute from a two-person institute to its present size of over 90 employees. In 2012, he was named the Principal Investigator for the NASA Ames Research Center Cooperative Research in Earth Science and Technology (ARC-CREST), a 10 year $137 million Cooperative Agreement with four institutions (BAER Institute, California State University at Monterey Bay, University of North Dakota and University of California at Davis). Previous to starting BAER Institute he was an Assistant Regional Counsel for the USA Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco, CA and co-founder of a legal software company, Legisoft.