Joanne Simpson (March 23, 1923 – March 4, 2010) was the first woman to ever receive a Ph.D. in meteorology. Simpson was a graduate of the University of Chicago and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Simpson contributed to many areas of the atmospheric sciences, particularly in the field of tropical meteorology. She researched hot towers, hurricanes, the trade winds, air-sea interactions, and helped develop the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. By 1966, she became the director of Project Stormfury while chief of the Experimental Meteorology Branch of the Environment Satellite Services Administration's Institute for Atmospheric Sciences. She eventually became NASA's lead weather researcher and authored or co-authored over 190 articles.
Simpson had to endure years of not being taken seriously by her male colleagues and being passed over for jobs simply because of her sex. She is quoted as saying winning the Carl-Gustav Rossby Research Medal in 1983 made her feel "it isn't really so ridiculous that I did all of this. I'm not really a freak; I am a member of the community.“ Yet, poignantly, in an article published in the New York Academy of Sciences Annals, she was quoted as saying "I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.”
Her brother Daniel C. Gerould was the Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
The Drink:
Heat Wave:
1 oz dark rum
1 oz triple sec
1 oz rock and rye
½ oz lemon juice
Fill w/hot water
Garnish w/orange slice and cinnamon stick
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3.5
Accessibility: 2.5
Drunkability: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3.5
Accessibility: 2.5
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: more doodles, "hot beverage"
From weather-y-science-y women hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
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