John Stanturf, Scott Goodrick and Mel Warren (SRS-Oxford) spent most of September in Liberia, conducting a Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the USAID-Liberia mission. They spent the first week in Monrovia meeting with staff from various Liberian government agencies, staff of the AID mission, and non-governmental organizations. During week two they traveled southeast along the coast to the port city of Buchanan and north to the iron ore mining area of Nimba Province, close to the border with Sierra Leone and Guinea. They are concentrating on the present condition and utilization of key natural resources (forestry, agriculture, mining, and fisheries), identifying proposed development activities in these areas, and assessing how vulnerable they are to climate change and variability. A major challenge is that there are no consistent meteorological data for Liberia; very little has been collected since the civil wars began in the 1980s and most of what was collected prior to that was lost during the conflicts.