Anke Zernack is a senior researcher in the Volcanic Risk Solutions group at Massey University. She uses stratigraphic field mapping together with sedimentological and geochemical approaches to reconstruct volcanic processes, eruption histories, and magmatic evolution of long-lived stratovolcanoes, including remobilisation and resedimentation of volcanic material through debris avalanches and lahars. Her research also investigates primary and secondary products of caldera-forming silicic eruptions and their impact on landscape evolution. Anke is leading several multidisciplinary research projects that combine volcanology and archaeology with indigenous knowledge and engineering to decipher the prehistoric use of ocean-rafted pumice across the North Atlantic, and the role of pumice in Māori artefacts and modern applications. She is a member of IAVCEI, EGU and the Geoscience Society of NZ, and the current secretary of the IAVCEI Commission on Volcanogenic Sediments.
Anke obtained her M.Sc. in Geology from the University of Bonn (Germany) and her Ph.D. in Volcanology from Massey University (New Zealand) followed by post-doctoral fellowships at Blaise-Pascal University (France) and Aarhus University (Denmark). “Fire and Ice” will be her first research cruise and she is looking forward to supporting the coring operations on board as well as contributing to volcanological and sedimentological sample processing and analysis.
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