[1] Meissner moved to the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France where she investigated the predictability of the West African monsoon based on ocean-atmosphere fluxes off the coast of Senegal.

[4] Meissner completed a postdoc at the University of Victoria, Canada, 2000-2002 and subsequently was an assistant professor there in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences from 2002 until 2009.

[1] Her relocation from a tenure-track position in Victoria was in part due to the long term issues of reduced funding for climate change science across Canada.

[12] Meissner also voiced her concerns about climate change in an episode of ABC’s Lateline in 2017[13] and in an opinion article in the Sydney Morning Herald.

[15] In June 2018, she was a co-author of a paper[16] in Nature Geoscience which posited that current model-based climate projections could be greatly underestimating the rate of warming.