Collecting weather data on the roof

Today, we worked with Shirley Murillo. I was very impatient to meet her after reading her biography from the JASON curriculum. She is a research meteorologist and she is the top female hurricane researcher in the world! She was truthfully amazing. She makes you realize that meteorology isn’t just a man’s career, the number of women getting involved in meteorology is rapidly increasing. I, personally, thought that she was very nice. You could tell by the way she talked about weather and hurricanes that she really loves meteorology. You can see that she is fascinated by flying in hurricane planes, using doplar radar, receiving hurricane and weather information from all of the hurricane research tools, working with other scientist, and watching hurricanes at landfall. She also explained how the doplar radar works, why you have to wear flight suits, and what it feels like to be in a flight suit for more than nine hours! 

 

Cassandra measuring the wind speed

Shirley has been involved in meteorology for more than 13 years and she even started in high school! That is amazing! She is truthfully a role model for many and she gives us the advice of always pursuing our dreams. The experience with Shirley Murillo and all of the other scientists was out of this world! I learned numerous amounts of information in just four days! With Shirley, we didn’t just study, study, study. We also had fun, we laughed about the hurricane class parties, the re-shoots, and mostly the mess ups!

 

Shirley isn’t a geeky scientist, she is a normal person, yet she is the top female hurricane researcher in the world! That is phenomenal! I am very grateful for being allowed to meet three, amazing and top world hurricane researchers. I think that the coolest fact was learning that 2/3 of a hurricane is ice and snow. Most people are oblivious of this fact, and I was one of them. Also, learning about the SAL and looking at pictures from the eye of the hurricane was fascinating! Well, actually, everything was fascinating! What I thought was very cool was when we took the weather collections and when I finished collecting the dew point and we all looked at the results, we saw that the micro climates had affected the dew point and temperature. I

Shirley and Cassandra with the wind dial

was fascinated because we had learned about micro climates in the Boot Camp in Wisconsin! It was great to know what micro climates were thanks to the Boot Camp!

 

I learned numerous amounts of information in the past four days with Jason, Michael, and Shirley. I just can’t believe it! As soon as Jude told us we would be going to Miami, I have been extremely excited and had been waiting for this moment for a very long time! I was also very excited about meeting Shirley Murillo because there aren’t a lot of women working in Meteorology. I was so thrilled to now that I met the top female hurricane researcher in the world! Thank you so much JASON Project for this wonderful opportunity, you definitely changed our lives!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filming the weather results on the roof	Giving our weather results on the beach	The team on the roof collecting weather data
Mathew with the wind speed tool on the roof	Taking temperature and dew point at the park	The Argos, Christine, and Shirley at the park