Guillermo Podestá is a Research Professor of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science of the University of Miami. Originally trained in Agronomy, Guillermo has become involved in studies of ENSO-related climate variability and applications of seasonal-to-interannual climate predictions to enhance decision-making in climate-sensitive sectors of society such as agriculture. He acts as project coordinator and facilitator.

Guillermo "Willy" Bernaudo is an agronomist and heads the Technology Division of the Asociación Argentina de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola (AACREA), a non-profit farmers' association with a mission for the dissemination of innovative technology. Willy is heavily involved in project outreach and is responsible for liaison with participating farmers.

Silvia Berríos Cáceres is an agronomist with the Agrometeorology Division of Argentina's Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (Meteorological Service). Silvia is part of the Met Service team working on drought indices, and characterization of risk asociated with climate variability.

Federico Bert has an undergraduate degree in Agronomy and currently is a doctoral candidate in the Facultad de Agronomía (School of Agronomy) of the University of Buenos Aires. His dissertation is based on this project and he is involved in multiple aspects of the research.

Kenny Broad is a social anthropologist in the Marine Affairs and Policy Division of the Rosenstiel School. He studies opportunities and impediments for use of climate information in various sectors (agriculture, water resources, fisheries). Kenny is participating in the Southeast Climate Consortium, a regional climate assessment focused on the Southeast United States. In this project, Kenny is involved in the self-study of integrative science research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Alejandra Celis was originally trained in Biology. She is a researcher at CENTRO Estudios Sociales y Ambientales, an NGO focused on research and training on social, economic, and environmental issues. Working with Hilda Herzer and Graciela Caputo, Alejandra is studying the role of institutions in the flow of climate information.

Graciela Caputo is a researcher at CENTRO Estudios Sociales y Ambientales. She is a biologist with interest in the analysis of environmental risks. She has co-edited the book Desastres y Sociedad en América Latina and has published on natural disasters. She is collaborating with other CENTRO colleagues in the study of the role of institutions in the flow of climate information.

Bill Easterling is Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of the Environment at Penn State University. He has published widely on issues of climate variability and change impacts on agriculture, including analysis of barriers to the use of climate forecasts. He has helped lead several large scale agricultural assessments of climate change (the MINK study and recent IPCC chapter on agriculture), and co-edited the NRC book Making Climate Forecasts Matter. He is leading the study of farmers' preferences about attributes of climate forecasts.

Eva Maria Furrer is is a postdoc/visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Geophysical Statistics Project in Boulder, Colorado. Her recent research has centered around applications of diverse statistical methodologies to hydrological problems. Working with Rick Katz, Eva is currently studying weather generators taking into account climate variability associated with the El Niño Southern Oscillation phenomenon and will be involved in the probabilistic treatment of uncertainty.

Hilda Herzer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires and Academic Director of CENTRO Estudios Sociales y Ambientales. She has published extensively on urban and environmental topics. In this project, Hilda is leading an exploration of the role of institutions in the flow of climate information.

Cecilia Hidalgo is an epistemologist at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the University of Buenos Aires. Cecilia is co-leading the self-study of integrative science research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Rick Katz is a statistician at the Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment (ISSE) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Rick has interest in the application of statistics to weather and climate and their impacts. He has co-edited the book The Economic Value of Weather and Climate Forecasts and is founder of the NCAR Geophysical Statistics Project to promote collaboration between atmospheric and statistical scientists. Rick is leading the probabilistic treatment of uncertainty.

Clark Knighton received a B.A. in Environmental Science and Spanish from the University of Virginia in 2003. She is currently an M.S. candidate in the Department of Geography at Penn State University, where she is working with Dr. Bill Easterling. As a member of the research team, Clark is developing a two-part conjoint analysis evaluation to assess farmers’ perceptions of seasonal climate forecasts and the influence of external factors on on-farm decisions.

Dave Letson is an Associate Professor in the Marine Affairs and Policy Division of the Rosenstiel School. As a natural resource economist, he has studied the economic value of seasonal climate forecasts in Argentine agriculture and currently leads a regional climate assessment focused on the Southeast United States. Dave is involved in the exploration of non-traditional decision goals, and is leading simulations of the implications of these goals on the economic value of climate information.

Carlos Laciana was originally trained in Physics and currently is a faculty member at the Facultad de Ingeniería (School of Engineering) of the University of Buenos Aires. He is based at the Laboratory for Mathematical Modelling. Carlos has been collaborating intensively with Elke Weber (Columbia) in the exploration of "optimal" agricultural decisions identified by alternative objective functions. Carlos also is involved in the design of the computational framework.

Angel Menéndez has expertise in Physics and Fluid Dynamics. He is Professor at the Facultad de Ingeniería (School of Engineering) of the University of Buenos Aires. He is Director of the school's Program for Computational Hydraulics and heads the the Laboratory for Mathematical Modelling. Angel is leading efforts to integrate conceptual and computational models of various subsystems studied into a consistent framework.

Claudia Natenzon is Professor of Geography at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the University of Buenos Aires. She heads the Programa de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (PIRNA, Research Program on Natural resources and the Environment). Claudia has published on the geography of natural resources, protected areas, and natural disasters. In this project, she is co-leading (with Cecilia Hidalgo and Kenny Broad) the assessment of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Liliana Núñez heads the Agrometeorology Division of Argentina's Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (Meteorological Service). She is also completing a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at the University of Buenos Aires. Her thesis, supported by this project, involves the identification and description of wet and dry periods in the historical climate record of the Pampas.

Silvia Núñez is a meteorologist and she is the Head of the Climatology Division Argentina's Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (Meteorological Service). She is coordinating the implementation of climate information products to support decision-making.

Don Olson is a Professor of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Rosenstiel School. Don has been involved in studies of climate in the South Atlantic as an oceanographer and has a long record of working in mathematical biology. His work in this project extends research funded by Biocomplexity to explore resource dynamics in response to changes in human exploitation at various scales. Don is developing system models to explore the dynamics of agricultural system response to climate forcing and changes in human behavior.

Roger Pulwarty is a researcher at the NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center in Boulder, Colorado. Roger's interests are in climate and weather, their role in society-environment interactions, and in the design of effective services to address associated risks. His research and applications focus on natural resources policy, development and decision-making in the Western U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. Roger chairs the AMS Board on Societal Impacts, and is a lead author on the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Working Group 2.

Balaji Rajagopalan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder. He has considerable expertise on stochastic hydroclimatology and analyses of climate variability. He has developed non-parametric weather generators and resampling procedures to tie climate information, resource management and decision making. Balaji is leading the development of interannual and decadal climate scenarios.

Mariano Re is a researcher at the Facultad de Ingeniería (School of Engineering) of the University of Buenos Aires, where he is based at the Laboratory for Mathematical Modelling. Originally trained in Engineering, Mariano has strong interdisciplinary interests and recently completed a Master's degree in Environmental Science. He is collaborating with Angel Menéndez in the implementation of a common framework for most modeling efforts in the project.

Until recently, Fernando Ruiz Toranzo was AACREA's regional coordinator for the north of Buenos Aires region (where Pergamino, one of the target areas is located). Although he is now working in Mendoza (Argentina's wine country), he remains deeply involved in the project, overseeing outreach efforts and helping to coordinate research that involves interactions with farmers. He is trained in Agronomy.

Emilio Satorre is Director of Agricultural Research at AACREA and Professor at the Facultad de Agronomía (School of Agronomy) of the University of Buenos Aires. Emilio leads the agronomic modeling in the project. He also is facilitating interactions with stakeholders (farmers and their technical advisors) and coordinates in the development of outreach materials.

"Maru" Skansi is a meteorologist in the Climatology Division of Argentina's Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (Meteorological Service). With a strong interest in outreach, Maru is involved in the adaptation and introduction of new climate information products to support agricultural decision-making. She also monitors and facilitates the introduction process.

Marcelo Torrent is an agronomist who, until recently, served as regional coordinator for the Northern Cordoba region of AACREA (where Pilar, one of the target areas is located). Because of his extensive knowledge of farming and farmers in the Pilar region, Marcelo is helping to coordinate field work and outreach efforts there. Marcelo also is coordinating the sustainability component of the project on behalf of AACREA.

Carlos Villanueva has a degree in Meteorology and is Technical Director of Argentina's Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (Meteorological Service). He oversees the Agrometeorology and Climate Prediction sections of the Met Service.

Elke Weber heads the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York City. She is an expert on behavioral models of decision making under risk and uncertainty. She has investigated psychologically appropriate ways to measure individual differences in risk taking in environmental decision making and policy. Elke is leading simulations and decision experiments to detect non-normative goals among farmers. She also is exploring associations between some of these goals and contextual and personal characteristics of farmers.