Rosea Kemp | |
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Born | 5 June 1941
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Died | 27 December 2015
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Occupation |
Meteorologist,
weather presenter
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Rosea Lilian Kemp (5 June 1941 – 27 December 2015) was an Australian meteorologist.
Rosea Lilian Boyd was born on 5 June 1941 in Melbourne, and named after Mount Rosea, in The Grampians, where her parents had taken their honeymoon. [1] [2] She attended Hampton High School and MacRobertson Girls' School. [3]
She was first woman to be awarded an Australian Bureau of Meteorology cadetship, enabling her to study for a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne. [1] [2] [4] She joined the bureau in 1959, after her mother successfully lobbied for a change in the rules to allow women to apply for cadetships, [1] [2] [3] and was one of two women who were the second and third to graduate from its training school, in 1962. [5]
Moving to England, she achieved fame as a weather forecaster for BBC radio in London, employed—as was usual at the time—by the Met Office. [1] [2] [6] She was then the only woman broadcasting weather forecasts in England. [7] During that period, she appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 25 December 1968. [6] She also met and married fellow Australian John Kemp, while working in the UK. [2] [8]
After returning to Australia on 1 December 1969, on board the SS Oriana, [9] she again worked at the Bureau of Meteorology, and then ran a consultancy, called Weatherex, with Don Douglas, studying the storms of the New South Wales coast, [1] before returning to the bureau for a third stint in September 1988. [2]
She received the Bureau of Meteorology long-service award in 2003, in the presence of her mother. [2]
She died on 27 December 2015 in Sydney, [1] survived by two sons. [2] An obituary was published in the Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. [1] [2]
She was described as:
a trailblazer for women in Australian meteorology, being the first woman to be awarded a cadetship by the Bureau of Meteorology to study for her BSc
by The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation. [1]
Rosea Kemp | |
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Born | 5 June 1941
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Died | 27 December 2015
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Alma mater | |
Occupation |
Meteorologist,
weather presenter
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Rosea Lilian Kemp (5 June 1941 – 27 December 2015) was an Australian meteorologist.
Rosea Lilian Boyd was born on 5 June 1941 in Melbourne, and named after Mount Rosea, in The Grampians, where her parents had taken their honeymoon. [1] [2] She attended Hampton High School and MacRobertson Girls' School. [3]
She was first woman to be awarded an Australian Bureau of Meteorology cadetship, enabling her to study for a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne. [1] [2] [4] She joined the bureau in 1959, after her mother successfully lobbied for a change in the rules to allow women to apply for cadetships, [1] [2] [3] and was one of two women who were the second and third to graduate from its training school, in 1962. [5]
Moving to England, she achieved fame as a weather forecaster for BBC radio in London, employed—as was usual at the time—by the Met Office. [1] [2] [6] She was then the only woman broadcasting weather forecasts in England. [7] During that period, she appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 25 December 1968. [6] She also met and married fellow Australian John Kemp, while working in the UK. [2] [8]
After returning to Australia on 1 December 1969, on board the SS Oriana, [9] she again worked at the Bureau of Meteorology, and then ran a consultancy, called Weatherex, with Don Douglas, studying the storms of the New South Wales coast, [1] before returning to the bureau for a third stint in September 1988. [2]
She received the Bureau of Meteorology long-service award in 2003, in the presence of her mother. [2]
She died on 27 December 2015 in Sydney, [1] survived by two sons. [2] An obituary was published in the Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. [1] [2]
She was described as:
a trailblazer for women in Australian meteorology, being the first woman to be awarded a cadetship by the Bureau of Meteorology to study for her BSc
by The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation. [1]