Hugo Berbery has accepted the position of Associate Director for CICS-MD, the UMD component of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites. Berbery, a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, has a long record of productive research on a number of topics, including regional hydroclimate variability, monsoon systems and land surface-atmosphere interactions, and is currently Co-chair of the International CLIVAR’s Variability of the American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS) Panel.
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