Kathryn Anne Whaler is a British geophysicist born June 11, 1956, in Salisbury, England, who is a professor of geophysics at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences. Her research applies inverse theory to geomagnetism, studying the magnetic fields of the core and mantle of Earth, crustal magnetization on Earth, Mars, and the Moon, and African crustal geomagnetism including Zimbabwe and the East African Rift system, and she led the GEOSPACE project examining satellite magnetic field data from 2004 to 2011. She was the first woman elected to a geophysics chair in the United Kingdom, served as the first female president of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics from 2019 to 2023, was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2018, and received the Wollaston Medal in 2023.
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Kathryn Anne Whaler OBE FRSE FAGU (born 11 June 1956) is a professor of geophysics at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences, in the Research Institute of Earth and Planetary Science and is a member of the Solid Earth Geophysics and Natural Hazards Research Group.
Early life and education section
Born in Salisbury, Whaler attended Croydon High School for Girls (with a year at Old Kampala Senior Secondary School, Uganda).
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Following her role as IAGA president, she became the Vice President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics from 2015 to 2019 at the 26th IUGG General Assembly in Prague, and then became the President from 2019 to 2023, becoming the first female president of the body.
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