McCabe studied Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class honours degree before going on to spend three months as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she used satellite magnetic data to interpret the underlying crustal structure of parts of Australasia.
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In January 2006, she briefly gained some measure of notoriety in Scotland following a forecast where she told Rangers fans heading to their game to "wrap up warm if they are heading for Castle Grayskull".
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Further study at the University of Oxford saw her involved in a project to look for evidence of climate change in old volcanic soils on the Greek island of Santorini (Thera).
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During her time at Oxford she was offered a three-month internship at New Scientist magazine where she went on to work as a sub-editor for four years.
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