Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
Geology professor and seismologist
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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]
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]