Jackie Caplan-Auerbach

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Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach is an American seismologist and professor of geology at Western Washington University (Western). [1] [2] [3] She is best known for identifying the "Swift Quake", a seismological phenomenon during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. [4] Her research usually focuses on the sounds and seismic motions from volcanoes. [5] [6] She currently serves as the associate dean of Western's College of Science and Engineering. [3]

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Personal life and education

According to her profile on Classmates.com, Caplan-Auerbach graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California with the class of 1985, and them from the Peninsula School in Menlo Park, California with the class of 1981. [7]

She later received a dual-B.A. in physics and English from Yale University, and later a Ph.D. from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2001. [3] [8] Although her educational background is in physics, she found an advisor at the University of Hawaiʻi who was planning to put seismometers on an underwater volcano, and Caplan-Auerbach's interest was piqued, so she joined the team. [9]

Caplan-Auerbach is married to Pete Stelling, [4] also a volcanologist, and retired faculty at Western. [8] [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach". Western Washington University . Retrieved September 2, 2023– via bepress.
  2. ↑ "WWU seismologist captures 'Swift-quake,' story goes global". WWU News. Western Washington University. July 31, 2023. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "caplanj: Jackie Caplan-Auerbach". Geology Department. Western Washington University . Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Hoffman, Hailey (August 9, 2023). "Viral 'Swift Quake' WWU professor aims to make earth science popular". Cascadia Daily News . Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  5. ↑ Hawryluk, Dianna (July 28, 2023). "Jackie Caplan-Auerbach: Swiftquake". KGMI . Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  6. ↑ Glazer, Ilan (July 5, 2019). ""Our role as geoscientists is to help people understand fragility and power of the world." an interview with Jackie Caplan-Auerbach". StoryCorps Archive. StoryCorps . Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Jackie Caplan-Auerbach". Classmates.com . Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  8. 1 2 "Alumni News" (PDF). Nuhou Kanaka Puka [Alumni News]. Department of Geology and Geophysics of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology: 18–21. Summer 2006.
  9. ↑ Barber DeGraaff, Regina (May 11, 2019). "Seismology & Volcanology with Dr. Caplan-Auerbach". Spark Science (Podcast). Western Washington University . Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  10. ↑ Jacobo, Julia (February 8, 2023). "This is how heat from a volcano can be used to power an entire town". WDBO . Retrieved September 8, 2023.
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