Education
Elsner earned a Bachelor of Surgery (1981), Master of Surgery (1984), and Doctor of Philosophy (1988) from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM).
geographer meteorologist statistician
Elsner earned a Bachelor of Surgery (1981), Master of Surgery (1984), and Doctor of Philosophy (1988) from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM).
He joined the faculty of Florida State University (FSU) in 1990 as an assistant professor in the Department of Meteorology and moved to the Department of Geography in 1998 where he has held his current position as the Earl and Sophia Shaw Professor since 2008. He has been President of Climatek, Incorporated., since 2001. Elsner organized the biannual International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change in 2001 and the International Summit on Tornadoes and Climate Change, the first scientific conference on the topic, in 2014.
He is a storm chaser and leads a FSU storm intercept program
He is member of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), the American Geophysical Union (American Geophysical Union), and the American Meteorological Society (American Mathematical Society).