Kat Dapré
@katdapre.bsky.social
Icy seismologist at UMD with a special place in my heart for Enceladus | she/her
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Kat Dapré
@katdapre.bsky.social
· Jul 1
I am now a postdoc at @univofmaryland.bsky.social!
I'm joining the ARROW project to study some very cool seismic data collected at a floating rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We hope to learn about the ice structure and seismicity of this region and how they're affected by tidal forces 🥼❄🧪
I'm joining the ARROW project to study some very cool seismic data collected at a floating rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We hope to learn about the ice structure and seismicity of this region and how they're affected by tidal forces 🥼❄🧪
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🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
nserc-crsng.canada.ca
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...
I'm on the blog team this year and we're really hoping for submissions featuring the huge range of polar research disciplines in the US. If you've got a story about recent adaptations, challenges, or improvements in your field, from new satellites to Arctic community initiatives, get in touch! ❄🥼🛠
Our 2025-26 call for blog posts is out now!
If you work in Arctic, polar, or cryospheric science, we want to hear about your experiences relating to this year's blog theme: "Reimagining Data in Polar Science". Send us an email by Feb 20th to register your interest!
www.usapecs.org/post/2025-26...
If you work in Arctic, polar, or cryospheric science, we want to hear about your experiences relating to this year's blog theme: "Reimagining Data in Polar Science". Send us an email by Feb 20th to register your interest!
www.usapecs.org/post/2025-26...
2025-26 Call for Blogs
This year, USAPECS is hosting a blog series entitled “Reimagining data in polar science”! We are looking for US-based scientists, fieldwork organizers, and professionals with any polar/alpine/cryosphe...
www.usapecs.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm on the blog team this year and we're really hoping for submissions featuring the huge range of polar research disciplines in the US. If you've got a story about recent adaptations, challenges, or improvements in your field, from new satellites to Arctic community initiatives, get in touch! ❄🥼🛠
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YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
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🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨
We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.
This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.
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We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.
This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨
We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.
This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.
(1/2)
We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.
This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.
(1/2)
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Just decline the peer review invitation.
What are you people even doing?
What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just decline the peer review invitation.
What are you people even doing?
What are you people even doing?
@univofmaryland.bsky.social Active Tectonics group are at #AGU25!
Come track down our posters and talks this week to hear about finding slow-moving landslides using InSAR, seismology at the Ross Ice Shelf, and hydroacoustics:
🛠❄
Come track down our posters and talks this week to hear about finding slow-moving landslides using InSAR, seismology at the Ross Ice Shelf, and hydroacoustics:
🛠❄
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
@univofmaryland.bsky.social Active Tectonics group are at #AGU25!
Come track down our posters and talks this week to hear about finding slow-moving landslides using InSAR, seismology at the Ross Ice Shelf, and hydroacoustics:
🛠❄
Come track down our posters and talks this week to hear about finding slow-moving landslides using InSAR, seismology at the Ross Ice Shelf, and hydroacoustics:
🛠❄
Very exciting projects being advertised, including some with my PhD supervisor @jessicairving.bsky.social - if you're at AGU and want to chat about STFC planetary PhDs at Bristol, feel free to reach out!
#AGU25 🛠🪐
#AGU25 🛠🪐
🌍🪐 STFC funded PhD opportunity in Planetary Science @bristoluni.bsky.social
Choose from projects on:
1️⃣ Chondritic meteorites
2️⃣ Titan's atmosphere
3️⃣ The deep interior of Mars
4️⃣ Highly siderophile elements in the solar system
🕒 Apply by: 25 Feb 2026, 14:00 GMT
ℹ️ www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...
Choose from projects on:
1️⃣ Chondritic meteorites
2️⃣ Titan's atmosphere
3️⃣ The deep interior of Mars
4️⃣ Highly siderophile elements in the solar system
🕒 Apply by: 25 Feb 2026, 14:00 GMT
ℹ️ www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Very exciting projects being advertised, including some with my PhD supervisor @jessicairving.bsky.social - if you're at AGU and want to chat about STFC planetary PhDs at Bristol, feel free to reach out!
#AGU25 🛠🪐
#AGU25 🛠🪐
Last month we buried 7 seismometers in a cornfield to see if we could detect groundwater changes using ambient noise cross-correlation. Last week we went to retrieve them - my first snow day in Maryland, and much less corn than before! It sure added an extra layer of excitement to the process...
❄️⚒️🧪
❄️⚒️🧪
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Last month we buried 7 seismometers in a cornfield to see if we could detect groundwater changes using ambient noise cross-correlation. Last week we went to retrieve them - my first snow day in Maryland, and much less corn than before! It sure added an extra layer of excitement to the process...
❄️⚒️🧪
❄️⚒️🧪
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Great news for lunar science! 🧑🚀🌓🚀 NASA has selected the SPSS payload for the Artemis IV mission (2028) It will be deployed near the Moon’s South Pole to record moonquakes and reveal the deep interior. A proud international effort led by JPL! #ArtemisIV
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Great news for lunar science! 🧑🚀🌓🚀 NASA has selected the SPSS payload for the Artemis IV mission (2028) It will be deployed near the Moon’s South Pole to record moonquakes and reveal the deep interior. A proud international effort led by JPL! #ArtemisIV
Fascinating study from CU Boulder discussing dramatic effects associated with glaciers at grounding lines. Thinning of the glacier caused the seaward part to float, which let the ocean in to form cracks at its base and break off more icebergs.
Full story: buff.ly/D43Y8nv
Full story: buff.ly/D43Y8nv
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Fascinating study from CU Boulder discussing dramatic effects associated with glaciers at grounding lines. Thinning of the glacier caused the seaward part to float, which let the ocean in to form cracks at its base and break off more icebergs.
Full story: buff.ly/D43Y8nv
Full story: buff.ly/D43Y8nv
Having an excellent time at the @seismosocam.bsky.social Environmental Seismology conference so far, and thanks to everyone who came by our poster! (if you missed it, feel free to corner me later this week) Looking forward to the rest of the talks and posters lined up for the next two days 🥼❄🧪
October 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Having an excellent time at the @seismosocam.bsky.social Environmental Seismology conference so far, and thanks to everyone who came by our poster! (if you missed it, feel free to corner me later this week) Looking forward to the rest of the talks and posters lined up for the next two days 🥼❄🧪
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PSA for folks visiting any National Public lands (parks, forests etc) during the shutdown: PLEASE take everything you brought in with you, including trash! Don't leave it in the bins if you can avoid it - those are emptied by National Parks/Forest workers. If they're furloughed that job isn't done.
October 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
PSA for folks visiting any National Public lands (parks, forests etc) during the shutdown: PLEASE take everything you brought in with you, including trash! Don't leave it in the bins if you can avoid it - those are emptied by National Parks/Forest workers. If they're furloughed that job isn't done.
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The last paper from my PhD is out today in JGR Planets! we looked at how Titan's topography can interact with tidal and possible tectonic stresses to generate fractures, which could erode over time to produce icy sediment and provide fresh surface area for hydrocarbon interxn
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Topographic Stress as a Mechanical Weathering Mechanism on Titan
Stress perturbations induced by topographic features on Titan can lead to fracture in its icy crust, enhancing mechanical weathering This mechanism could help generate sediment on Titan Titan's ...
doi.org
July 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The last paper from my PhD is out today in JGR Planets! we looked at how Titan's topography can interact with tidal and possible tectonic stresses to generate fractures, which could erode over time to produce icy sediment and provide fresh surface area for hydrocarbon interxn
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
I am now a postdoc at @univofmaryland.bsky.social!
I'm joining the ARROW project to study some very cool seismic data collected at a floating rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We hope to learn about the ice structure and seismicity of this region and how they're affected by tidal forces 🥼❄🧪
I'm joining the ARROW project to study some very cool seismic data collected at a floating rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We hope to learn about the ice structure and seismicity of this region and how they're affected by tidal forces 🥼❄🧪
July 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I am now a postdoc at @univofmaryland.bsky.social!
I'm joining the ARROW project to study some very cool seismic data collected at a floating rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We hope to learn about the ice structure and seismicity of this region and how they're affected by tidal forces 🥼❄🧪
I'm joining the ARROW project to study some very cool seismic data collected at a floating rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We hope to learn about the ice structure and seismicity of this region and how they're affected by tidal forces 🥼❄🧪
Have we considered classifying geological terranes by making a surface image into a jigsaw and setting professional jigsaw solvers on it?
It’s not even funny how well these (independently evolved) piles are going to line up with descriptions of surface categories I learned during my PhD 😂
🪐🔭⚒️
It’s not even funny how well these (independently evolved) piles are going to line up with descriptions of surface categories I learned during my PhD 😂
🪐🔭⚒️
April 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Have we considered classifying geological terranes by making a surface image into a jigsaw and setting professional jigsaw solvers on it?
It’s not even funny how well these (independently evolved) piles are going to line up with descriptions of surface categories I learned during my PhD 😂
🪐🔭⚒️
It’s not even funny how well these (independently evolved) piles are going to line up with descriptions of surface categories I learned during my PhD 😂
🪐🔭⚒️
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I’m working on a piece about funding basic science and if you’ve never explored spinoff.nasa.gov, I would really encourage you to do so. Even though I’ve been doing this for 20 years, it really is humbling and informative to see the ways in which space science works its way into our daily lives.
Home | NASA Spinoff
spinoff.nasa.gov
March 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I’m working on a piece about funding basic science and if you’ve never explored spinoff.nasa.gov, I would really encourage you to do so. Even though I’ve been doing this for 20 years, it really is humbling and informative to see the ways in which space science works its way into our daily lives.
Took the parents to watch the planets align last night. We had moderate success (Mercury had already set by the time we got there) but the stars were very pretty ✨🔭🧪
March 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Took the parents to watch the planets align last night. We had moderate success (Mercury had already set by the time we got there) but the stars were very pretty ✨🔭🧪
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February 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
In the unlikely event that anyone has the time or energy to read my PhD thesis, it’s now publicly accessible!
hdl.handle.net/1983/a617d18...
I recommend Ch 2 if you want to watch me piece an icy moon together by trawling through a *whole bunch* of options for models and analogues ❄️🥼🪐🧪⚒️
hdl.handle.net/1983/a617d18...
I recommend Ch 2 if you want to watch me piece an icy moon together by trawling through a *whole bunch* of options for models and analogues ❄️🥼🪐🧪⚒️
Planetary Seismology on an Icy Moon
hdl.handle.net
February 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In the unlikely event that anyone has the time or energy to read my PhD thesis, it’s now publicly accessible!
hdl.handle.net/1983/a617d18...
I recommend Ch 2 if you want to watch me piece an icy moon together by trawling through a *whole bunch* of options for models and analogues ❄️🥼🪐🧪⚒️
hdl.handle.net/1983/a617d18...
I recommend Ch 2 if you want to watch me piece an icy moon together by trawling through a *whole bunch* of options for models and analogues ❄️🥼🪐🧪⚒️
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The depths of the anti-trans hatred in sections of the British media is just shocking to behold. Trans people in the UK are a tiny group of people who must constantly suffer this blazing hot ire directed upon them by self-righteous bigots for no reason at all.
He boasts about being a sexual predator, he's been accused by 25 women of rape, harassment or assault, a jury found he "forcibly and non consensually penetrated Carroll's vagina with his fingers," he supports banning abortion.
But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."
But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."
February 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The depths of the anti-trans hatred in sections of the British media is just shocking to behold. Trans people in the UK are a tiny group of people who must constantly suffer this blazing hot ire directed upon them by self-righteous bigots for no reason at all.
My fabulous supervisor @jessicairving.bsky.social has a #PhD project in this list looking at modelling quakes and working with seismic data on the rocky planets (v cool stuff). And if you want to pick someone's brain about doing a PhD at Bristol, feel free to reach out! ⚒️🧪🔭🪐
Looking for a #PhD in planetary #science? We have a fully funded studentship available at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. Choose from the three projects listed here: www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience....
Application deadline: 2pm, 12th Feb.
DM me for details!
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Application deadline: 2pm, 12th Feb.
DM me for details!
Please repost!
January 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My fabulous supervisor @jessicairving.bsky.social has a #PhD project in this list looking at modelling quakes and working with seismic data on the rocky planets (v cool stuff). And if you want to pick someone's brain about doing a PhD at Bristol, feel free to reach out! ⚒️🧪🔭🪐
My partner + flatmates got me these dope moon dice (byFlowerFox on Etsy) and *made* this giant Saturn d20 from scratch, like hand-painted and pressure-cooked resin and everything, all in secret?? The 7 lil guys are the moons you can see from Earth with a telescope?? I cannot comprehend
January 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My partner + flatmates got me these dope moon dice (byFlowerFox on Etsy) and *made* this giant Saturn d20 from scratch, like hand-painted and pressure-cooked resin and everything, all in secret?? The 7 lil guys are the moons you can see from Earth with a telescope?? I cannot comprehend
Thanks David for the fab summary thread and signal boost! 🪐❄️
🚀 What secrets does the icy moon Enceladus hold? A new study dives into seismic wave modeling for its 3D ice shell, paving the way for future exploration. Let's unravel the layers of this intriguing moon! 🌌❄️ #Enceladus #SpaceScience agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2169...
January 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thanks David for the fab summary thread and signal boost! 🪐❄️
3D Enceladus paper out now in JGR Planets (OA): doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Join us as we consider how Enceladus' 3D ice shell could affect body wave seismology! 🧪⚒️🪐🔭
This constitutes the last ~18 months of my PhD research with @jessicairving.bsky.social and I think our results are very cool indeed.
Join us as we consider how Enceladus' 3D ice shell could affect body wave seismology! 🧪⚒️🪐🔭
This constitutes the last ~18 months of my PhD research with @jessicairving.bsky.social and I think our results are very cool indeed.
Seismic Wavefield Modeling of Enceladus: Challenges and Opportunities Presented by a 3D Ice Shell
We describe the effects of 3D ice shell thickness and 2D surface temperature on seismic phases transiting each layer of Enceladus Deviations from 1D ice structure can cause travel time difference...
doi.org
January 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
3D Enceladus paper out now in JGR Planets (OA): doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Join us as we consider how Enceladus' 3D ice shell could affect body wave seismology! 🧪⚒️🪐🔭
This constitutes the last ~18 months of my PhD research with @jessicairving.bsky.social and I think our results are very cool indeed.
Join us as we consider how Enceladus' 3D ice shell could affect body wave seismology! 🧪⚒️🪐🔭
This constitutes the last ~18 months of my PhD research with @jessicairving.bsky.social and I think our results are very cool indeed.
you’ll never guess what date I submitted my thesis
December 4, 2024 at 1:50 PM
you’ll never guess what date I submitted my thesis