Elizabeth Austin is President of WeatherExtreme Ltd., a research and consulting firm. She has also held affiliate research professor positions at the Desert Research Institute/University of Nevada at Reno. Elizabeth has been an active member of the NWA for many years, she is an active member of the American Meteorological Society, has served on many AMS Committees and is Chair of the Board of the Certified Consulting Meteorologists (CCM).

Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers bureau, Elizabeth is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Specialist award at the Laboratoire de Physique de l’Atmosphère, CNRS, Universitè de La Rèunion, Rèunion Island, France and the distinguished teaching award at the four-year Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village Nevada. She is the project meteorologist for the Perlan Project to fly a manned glider to 100,000 feet. Her areas of specialty include forensic meteorology, aviation meteorology, mountain weather, mesocale atmospheric modeling, cloud and ice physics, education, and stratospheric mountain waves. Elizabeth has appeared on-air all over the world (Germany, China, New Zealand, France, Australia and the USA), lectured and taught courses and seminars on weather and climate all over the world.