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Jeff Kimpel: Faculty Member, Director, Dean, and Senior VP & Provost
John T. SnowRegents’ Professor of Meteorology
The College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences
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Contributions
• Vision a “weather enterprise” for Oklahoma • Leadership realizing the vision
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Vision A “weather enterprise” for Oklahoma
• Communicate, Coordinate, Collaborate Oklahoma Weather Center• From Collocation to Consolidation• OSF and OKC WFO to Adair Bldg on North Base• National Weather Center • National Weather Radar Testbed/Phased Array Radar Project
• Foster Private Sector Meteorology
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Leadership – Realizing the vision
What did Jeff do best? – Articulated the Vision in ways that caused others to buy in – Created a collegial, supportive environment wherein education, research and scholarship, and outreach to the wider community could flourish.
Some results and consequences:-- students integrated throughout the weather enterprise-- adjunct faculty program in the School of Meteorology-- research linkages between NSSL and the University weather and climate programs
– Hired outstanding faculty
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Outstanding Hires
• Doug Lilly + Tsvi Gal Chen
• Ken Crawford
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Outstanding Hires
• T.H. Lee Williams
• Kelvin Droegemeier
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Well Done!
Congratulations!
Best Wishes!