Jean Maud Bullen

Jean Maud Bullen was a New Zealand-born geophysicist, regarded as one of Australasia's first women pioneers in geoscience. She was the sister of Keith Edward Bullen.

Career

Bullen was a scholarship winner for the Junior New Zealand Test
, and she worked first as a secondary school teacher. During WW2, she worked for the geological Survey of New Zealand, and researched groundwater information of New Zealand using magnetometers. She was then a foundation member of the Geophysics Division, of the geological Survey of New Zealand.
Until she retired, Bullen worked for the Ionosphere Section of the Department of [Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)|Department of Scientific and Industrial Research] in Christchurch, New Zealand. She spent considerable time preparing instrumentation for upper atmosphere observations, but she never visited the Scott Base.

Selected work

Bullen, J. M.. An analysis of estimated values of maximum usable frequency throughout a sunspot cycle and associated electron density trends, at Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 4, 331-346.
Bullen, J. M.. Atmospheric scale height as a modifying influence on linear trend of F-region electron density with sunspot number. Nature, 192, 542-543.