[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] 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.
[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.