Climate Change

Dr. Jeff Kimpel is the former Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory.  Prior to becoming the Director of NSSL, Dr. Kimpel served in the United States Air Force, including a tour in Vietnam for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.  He earned his graduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin before joining the Meteorology Faculty at the University of Oklahoma.  He achieved the rank of Full Professor and held a number of administrative positions including Dean of the College of Geosciences and Provost and Senior Vice President of the Norman Campus.  He was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and was elected President of the AMS in 2000.  He chaired both the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Atmospheric Sciences and the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for the Atmospheric Sciences.