Wolfgang H. Berger

Wolfgang "Wolf" Helmut Berger (5 October 1937, Erlangen – 6 August 2017 San Diego, California) was a German-American oceanographer, geologist, micropaleontologist and emeritus professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California, San Diego.

In 1968 he received his PhD in oceanography from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

In 1997 Berger became the director of the California Space Institute in San Diego.

His research was especially concerned with the ecology of planktonic foraminifera and the reconstruction of the climate and the marine environment of the Cenozoic.

The Berger–Parker index is named after Berger and Frances Lawrence Parker.