Claire Martin (meteorologist)

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Claire Martin BSc (born Claire Morehen in England) is a meteorologist who is currently a national television weather presenter with CBC Television in Canada.

She is a niece of Barbara Edwards, who in 1974 became the BBC's first female weather presenter in the UK.

1 Education and career
2 Awards and recognition
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Education and career

Claire Martin received a Higher National Certificate with distinction in Mathematics, Statistics and Physics from University of Reading in the United Kingdom. She studied this on day release from the UK Met Office. She was later transferred to the Central Forecast Office in Bracknell, UK.

She moved to Canada in July 1989 and worked at Environment Canada since 1990. Seeking improved career prospects at Environment Canada, she enrolled at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1993. She earned her Bachelors of Science in 1995.

After further work with Environment Canada, she became a staff meteorologist and weather presenter for ITV (now Global Television Edmonton) in August 1996.

In 2005, she moved from Edmonton to join CBC Television's news operations in Toronto. CBC introduced nationally-televised weather features at that time for its news programs The National and Canada Now.

[edit] Awards and recognition

The International Weather Festival awarded Claire Martin the honour of "Best Weather Presenter in the World" in 2000, 2001 and 2003. The festival is produced annually by meteorologists and broadcast weather presenters from various nations and has been supported by the World Meteorological Organization.

As a child Claire was a backing vocalist for Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" as one of the students chanting the now famous line: "We don't need no education".^[1]

In the days before she joined the British Met. Office she was also editing Spare Rib, the feminist magazine. In it she complained that climate research is dominated by men. In the late 70s and early 80s the idea that we were heading towards another ice age was in vogue and she was determined then to prove her theory of global warming. She suggested that global warming was caused by the greenhouse effect long before it entered the public consciousness.^{[citation needed]}