Tereza Cavazos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physical Oceanography, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. She was a Co-convener of the Workshop on The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME): Oceanographic Component, Baja California, April 2003, a Co-convener: 2004 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Oceanographic and Meteorological Processes in the Gulf of California (OS20), Portland, February 2004, a Special Session co-convener: Climate Modeling in Mexico, Annual Meeting of the Mexican Geophysical Union, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico October 2005. She has served as a Reviewer for: Journal of Climate, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Applied Meteorology, International Journal of Climatolology, Climate Research, Geophysical Research, Letters, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Atmospheric Science Letters, Annals Geographicae, Geofisica Internacional, Ingenieria Hidraulica, Ciencias Marinas and has been the author or co-author of 15 peer-reviewed articles including Journal of Climate, International Journal of Climatology, Climate Research, Geophysical Research, Letters, Journal of Hydrometeorology. Her current research interests include climate variability and downscaling, extreme events, and the North American monsoon.