Yes! Climate and weather research is still a big thing, though it also has a more active practice now in the atmospheric stabilization grid, and is quite heavily tied into terraforming. So those are definitely routes Mei could eventually go down! She'll have to start at a pretty low level position due to her situation and equivalent experience, but can work her way along over time in game.

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