Bruce W. Christenson

Bruce W. Christenson is probably the most active researcher among the crater lake pioneers. His long-term experience, innovating and revolutionary ideas on Ruapehu and White Island, among many other volcanoes, are always illuminating and scientific corner-stones for our community. He is our guide in the acid lake business. Bruce witnessed and monitored the 1995-1996, 2006 and 2007 Ruapehu eruptions, Tongariro’s 2011 eruption and the recent eruption dynamics of White Island, which he started studying together with “the” fluid pioneer Werner F. Giggenbach. Christenson is co-author of the first Monograph on Volcanic Lakes (Springer, 2015). Christenson, together with Agnes Mazot, organized CVL10-New Zealand in 2019.