Working with the ICESat-2 Project Science Office is a logical step for Kelly – she studied the interactions between the ice sheets and the oceans as a PhD student, then used data from the first ICESat satellite to examine ice shelf structures in her postdoctoral work at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She was a part of a team that surveyed a region in Bolivia to help calibrate ICESat, and is coordinating on-orbit calibration and validation of ICESat-2 data.