Dr. David M. Legler currently serves as a Director of the U.S. Office of the CLImate VARiability and Predictability (CLIVAR) program, part of an international research effort that seeks to understand and better predict climate variations on time scales of seasons to centuries. Before becoming director, he was a research associate and Deputy Director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) at Florida State University where he earned his PhD in meteorology from FSU in 1992. He has published over 25 papers in scientific journals on topics such as ocean remote sensing from space, variability of surface meteorology conditions over the ocean, and the impacts of ENSO on North American climate and subsequent effects on US agriculture and water resources. Additionally, Dr. Legler served as director of an international data center while at Florida State University and served on a number of international committees addressing the needs of atmospheric and oceanic data and air-sea fluxes. Early in his science career he earned the American Meteorological Society's Father James B. Macelwane Award for undergraduate research papers in 1982. When he has time, Dr. Legler enjoys camping and hiking in the Virginia mountains.

Catherine Stephens, Program Specialist III
Ms. Stephens' CV

Ms. Stephens received her B.S. and M.S. in meteorology at The Florida State University under James. J. O'Brien. Her Master's thesis entitled, "Variability of Surface Fluxes over the Indian Ocean1960-1990" was published in The Global Atmosphere and Ocean System, 1995. She joined the U.S. CLIVAR Office in January, 2004. Prior to that she was employed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the Coupled Climate Dynamics Group and then at NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center. She has published several papers on topics such as El Nino, Pacific Decadal Variability and surface fluxes. In her free time, she enjoys coaching youth soccer and traveling.