Interview with Dr. Anne Grunow, Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and curator of the Center’s Polar Rock Repository at the Ohio State University. Grunow describes her childhood in Southern New Jersey where her father was a potato farmer and her mother was a schoolteacher. She recalls helping out on the farm throughout her childhood. Grunow discusses her initial enrollment at Lehigh University for her undergraduate studies and her eventual transfer to Wellesley College where she studied geology. She describes her summer internship at Chevron before beginning her graduate studies at Columbia University, studying with Ian Dalziel. Grunow talks about her time at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and her field work in South America and Antarctica. She also reflects on being the only woman or first woman on many of her Antarctic expeditions. Grunow discusses her NATO post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford as well as another post-doc that led her to Ohio State University. The interview concludes with Grunow’s involvement in the establishment of the Polar Rock Repository and her general reflections on how the field has changed over time.
