Kat Dapré

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Icy seismologist at UMD with a special place in my heart for Enceladus | she/her

Geological core filled with rock samples stretching horizontally along the wall of a metro platform. In the foreground the text says "tunnel opens 1998", and the dates (and rocks!) get older along the length of the core, corresponding to the depth in the bedrock above the station at which they were extracted.
Gimena's AGU talk: NH23A-05 Identification of Potential Slow-Moving Landslides Using PCA/ICA on InSAR Time Series and Terrain Analysis Tuesday 16 Dec 15.15-15.30 room 295-296
I'm standing next to a groundwater well on snow-covered ground in a cornfield that has been recently harvested. I'm wearing winter gear, holding a shovel, and smiling at the camera, blissfully unaware of the hardships in my near future (we spent half an hour trying to find the seventh instrument)
I'm taking a selfie in front of my poster titled "Seismic Properties of Mélange in an Ice Shelf-Penetrating Rift from the ARROW Deployment at the Ross Ice Shelf". Some of the figures visible include a location map of the seismic array, a cartoon cross section through the rift, spectrograms, and work on ambient noise cross-correlation.
My POV as I'm walking up some stairs looking down at the brand new nameplate for my office door in my hand.
A jigsaw that will eventually be a photo of about 2/3 the surface of Enceladus, but currently only has the outer rectangular border and the curved outline of the moon completed. A box of puzzle pieces is sorted vaguely by lightness, while about 30 pieces with blue tint are laid out unassembled on the table.
My dad and I, wrapped up in coats and hats, aim binoculars at a very clear night sky in the general direction of Jupiter, which is out of shot to the right. The constellation Orion is visible directly above our heads.
Set of 7 polyhedral dice, sharp-edged and transparent purple with lil moons inside, surrounding an absolutely enormous (~4-inch-tall) purple d20 with a handpainted Saturn inside
screenshot from spotify wrapped that says “your biggest listening day was on 13 September with 632 minutes. where do you find the time?”
screenshot from BBC Asia with subtitle that says “…carving the ice into strange shapes.” The picture is of a chunk of ice, very smooth, that has been carved by the wind into a strange shape sort of like a 4-legged animal
A foot-long cross-sectioned sample of what sure seems like rhodochrosite - it has the dusky pink colour, circular patterns and the white banding down, and the centre is filled with white crystals
My thesis title page, which says “Planetary Seismology on an Icy Moon: Global seismic wavefield modelling to investigate the interior of Enceladus” above my name and the University of Bristol logo
Screenshot of Wikipedia page "Seismic velocity structure" featuring two figures adapted from my research about Enceladus
microsoft word attempts to correct 'cryoseismology' to 'cry seismology'