Anne Grunow

Anne Grunow is a senior research scientist at Ohio State University in the Byrd Polar Research Center. She is also the current director of the Polar Rock Repository. Grunow worked under advisors Ian W.D. Dalziel and Dennis V. Kent on her dissertation entitled: Aspects of the evolution of the West Antarctic margin of Gondwanaland.

Following this, Grunow received a NATO Post Doctoral Fellowship from 1991 to 1993 Their work was published in the Journal of Geodynamics in 1997. Her expertise includes geology and earth science, Her research centers on Antarctic Tectonics and she has led research teams to the Antarctic Peninsula and the Transantartic Mountains.

Some of Anne Grunow's most cited and notable work includes her research on Pan-African deformation and the potential links to the lapetus opening. This research centered around data collections dating back to the late Neoproterozoic era, and how they demonstrated a temporal correlation between Pan-African deformation and the Iapetus ocean basin closing. This research focused on the early Cambrian Period tectonics and its association with volcanic arc magmatism . and published in Journal of Geophysical Research.

Her work was noted by the United States Antarctic Program, which commented on the benefit of her work and the Polar Rock Repository's ability to provide samples from Antarctica to a variety of scientific sources for study.

Grunow was also active in tectonics research of the Avalon Terrane in New England with Wellesley College mentor, Margaret Thompson. They have published many articles on the Boston Basin and it's evolution in the late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian. She also conducted research on Neoproterozoic rocks near Corumba, Brazil and Puerto Suarez, Bolivia. Results from this work with colleague Loren Babcock have been published.

Publications New paleomagnetic data from the Antarctic Peninsula and their tectonic implications The implications for Gondwana of new Ordovician paleomagnetic data from igneous rocks in southern Victoria Land, East Antarctica Pan-African deformation and the potential links to the lapetus opening Antarctic Service Medal