GREGORY A. ZIELINSKI is a research associate professor in the Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine. During the last ten years he has authored over forty articles including the cover story for the January 2002 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. He has taught courses on New England weather and climate and is the Maine State Climatologist. BARRY D. KEIM is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and is a member of the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. He has co-authored an atlas of extreme rainfall for the south-central United States and New England's Changing Climate, Weather and Air Quality. Keim also serves as the New Hampshire State Climatologist.
