Kimberly Elmore:  

After high school, I went to the Univ. of Tulsa as an engineering physics major. But I decided that meteorology would be more fun and so transferred to to OU and changed my major to Meteorology. I earned my B.S. in 1978 and my M.S. in fall 1982. I got a job at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and arrive don November 4th, 1982. I worked on microbursts and later focused research on aviation weather topics. I worked mostly with radar and did some statistics. I met my wife, Pam Wilson (when we got married I kept my name) in 1984 in a pig pen, complete with piglets. The pigs liked me, her horses liked me, even her cat liked me, and so I passed the primary compatibility tests. We bought our first house in Longmont, CO, in March 1986 and we were married August 9, 1986. We took our honeymoon on motorcycles, camping all over southern Colorado. In 1990, Pam was admitted to medical school and in 1991 I bought a 1946 Cessna 140, so I could fly from Longmont, CO, to Kirksville, MO, to see her. She learned to fly in that airplane. In 1995, I left NCAR to work at the National Severe Storms Laboratory ...Expand for more