Dan Leathers serves as a Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware, as Delaware State Climatologist and as a director of the Center for Environmental Monitoring & Analysis (CEMA). His major research interests include understanding the role of snow cover in the global climate system, the influence of land-surface changes (natural and human induced) on regional climates, environmental monitoring and the integration of environmental data sources, and the climate of the northeast United States. He has previously served the University as the Chair of the Department of Geography and as Deputy Dean of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.