Benjamin Lamptey: Dr. Lamptey has a PhD in Geosciences from Pennsylvania State University and is the current Deputy Director General of ACMAD. Prior to joining ACMAD Dr. Lamptey was a postdoctoral researcher at NCAR where he worked on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, the Community Land Model (CLM) as well as using datasets (both remotely sensed and in situ) for various analyses particularly over West Africa. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Regional Maritime University, Ghana. His expertise are on Environmental Applications: Science and Impacts of climate variability and global environmental change, modeling weather, climate and climate change, climate change adaptation, remote sensing, meteorological applications to different disciplines