Richard Seager is a senior research scientist@Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1990, Seager held postdoctoral positions at Lamont-Doherty and@the University of Washington in Seattle. His current research interests include the causes of extratropical drought, the climate of the last millennium and the experimental prediction of decadal variability in climate. Address: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, N.Y 10964. Internet: seager@ldeo.columbia.edu