Claire Martin (meteorologist)

For other women named Claire Martin, see Claire Martin (disambiguation)

Claire Martin BSc is 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. She has been Chairman of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorologists since October 2007.^[1]

Education and career

UK

Before emigrating to Canada, Martin worked for the UK Met Office as a forecaster, responsible for SW England. She received a Higher National Certificate, a first class university degree with distinction in Mathematics, Statistics and Physics from University of Reading in the United Kingdom while on day release from her job. She was later transferred to the Central Forecast Office in Bracknell, UK^[2]

Canada

She moved to Canada in July 1990 and worked in a support position for Environment Canada's Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC). She attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton from 1993 - 1995, completing her Bachelors of Science with specialization in Meteorology. She worked on the "media bench" for Environment Canada's Northern Alberta Weather Centre.^[2]

She moved to a job as a staff meteorologist and weather presenter with 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. In 2007, she moved to CBC Vancouver to host regional weather forecasts.^[3]

She became member of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) in 1993, of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in 1994, of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorologists (IABM) in 1996, of the UK Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) in 1998, and of the National Weather Association (NWA) in 1999. She is highly involved in the broadcasting quality of meteorological information as the Chairman of the IABM, and she also sat on AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorology which judges AMS approbation of their "Seal of approval" for on-air meteorologists.^[2]

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 was produced annually by meteorologists and broadcast weather presenters from various nations and has been supported by the World Meteorological Organization.

Childhood

As a child Claire appeared in the video for Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" but did not sing.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Claire Martin Elected". International Association of Broadcast Meteorology. http://www.iabm.org/. Retrieved 2007-11-18. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Claire Martin profile". International Association of Broadcast Meteorology. http://www.iabm.org/page27.html. Retrieved 2007-11-18.  Indicates BSc with Meteorology specialisation.
3. ^ CBC: Claire Martin profile
4. ^ "On The Coast, CBC Radio One". CBC Radio One. 5 June 2008. 

Further reading

• Waldman, Deborah (Spring/Summer 1998). "Off the Beaten Path". New Trail (University of Alberta): p. 27. http://repository.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/9094.3.61/55.html. Retrieved 21 January 2011. 
• "Where are they now? / Claire Martin" (PDF). Science Contours (University of Alberta): p. 8. Fall 2002. Archived from the original on 27 September 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060927164731/http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/science/pdf/Contours_Fall_2002.pdf. Retrieved 21 January 2011. 

External links

• CBC Personalities - Claire Martin
• Imagiverse interview
• Martinez, Pilar. "Edmonton Writings / Cover Story". Edmonton Public Library. Archived from the original on 21 December 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071212211050/http://www.epl.ca/EPLTheSourceArticle.cfm?article=V8-2/Cover. Retrieved 21 January 2011. </ref>

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