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Miss Elen Elaine Austin, MA (1895 – 17 July 1987) was one of the early female scientific graduate recruits to the Met Office.

Education
Austin studied at Mrs W.N.Shaw's college (Newnham) and held a Cambridge degree in Natural Sciences.

Career
Austin joined the Met Office in July 1918. She was seconded to Imperial College as Napier Shaw's secretary when he was Professor of Meteorology there during 1920-24 and served as his editorial assistant for his four-volume Manual of Meteorology. In 1935, she returned to the Met Office and specialised in climatology.

Austin retired officially in 1955 as a Principal Scientific Officer, but stayed on in a more junior grade until 1957. She worked on significant climate papers for the Met Office, mostly upper winds and temperatures of various areas around the world. After Shaw died in 1945, Austin also produced “A bibliography of the works of Sir Napier Shaw, FRS, 1854 -1945”, published in 1955.