Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach is a 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
editAccording 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
edit- ^ "Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach". Western Washington University. Retrieved September 2, 2023 – via bepress.
- ^ "WWU seismologist captures 'Swift-quake,' story goes global". WWU News. Western Washington University. July 31, 2023. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
- ^ a b c "caplanj: Jackie Caplan-Auerbach". Geology Department. Western Washington University. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
- ^ a b Hoffman, Hailey (August 9, 2023). "Viral 'Swift Quake' WWU professor aims to make earth science popular". Cascadia Daily News. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
- ^ Hawryluk, Dianna (July 28, 2023). "Jackie Caplan-Auerbach: Swiftquake". KGMI. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Jackie Caplan-Auerbach". Classmates.com. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ Barber DeGraaff, Regina (May 11, 2019). "Seismology & Volcanology with Dr. Caplan-Auerbach". Spark Science (Podcast). Western Washington University. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
- ^ 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.
External links
edit- Website at Western Washington University Geology Department
- Jackie Caplan-Auerbach publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Publications by Jackie Caplan-Auerbach at ResearchGate