Kathryn Anne "Kathy" Whaler[1] OBE FRSE FAGU (born 11 June 1956) is a professor of geophysics at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences,[2] in the Research Institute of Earth and Planetary Science and is a member of the Solid Earth Geophysics and Natural Hazards Research Group.

[7] Whaler was the principal investigator of a NERC funded consortium called GEOSPACE (Geomagnetic Earth Observation from SPACE.)

This was a 5 year research grant funding the exploitation of data from the new generation of vector magnetic field satellites, and was in operation from 2004 to 2011.

[2] It is within this field that she, in collaboration with Derek Keir, published her highest cited paper during the 2008-2013 time window relevant for inclusion in the Research Excellence Framework.

[12] The same year, Whaler was also interviewed for the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 14th edition of Science Scotland and this was reported in an article entitled "Magnetic Field Personality".

[4][16] Whaler gave the Bullard Lecture of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2012[17] on studies in East Africa.

[19] The Price Medal is awarded for investigations of outstanding merit in solid earth geophysics, oceanography or planetary sciences.