She was affiliated with the U.S. Geological Survey and noted for her studies of mineralogy in Brazil.
[2] Multiple species of mineral were first described by her, including frondelite, faheyite, moraesite, barbosalite, and tavorite.
[3]: 556–557 These 5 minerals were all described by her and various collaborators in the 1940s and 1950s,[4] and sourced from a quarry in Galileia, Minas Gerais.
[6] Lindberg joined the Geological Survey in 1943, and received training from Joe Fahey.
[8][1] Notable work outside of Brazil includes paleontology research, including a paper with Wilbert H. Hass on the composition of conodonts (1946);[9] and the discovery of a brazilianite deposit in North Groton, New Hampshire (1947).