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One Day and One Night of Misfortune: The Cataclysmic Eruption of Santorini Volcano

NAU in Greece: The Cataclysmic Eruption of Santorini Volcano

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From left Laura, Emily, and Tibyan on the boat to Nea Kameni

Erin excited about truncation (2017)

Snails found in a pot excavated from Akrotiri (~1613 BC)

Lizzie measuring grain size

Jenna overlooking Aspronisi (small white island) (2016)

Leah at Ahmoudhi Quarry

The Temple of Poseidon at Sounio

Brittany on the boat to Nea Kameni

The girls at the National Archaeological Museum

Emily using her hand lense to identify minerals in pumice

Alex (2014)

Allaire and Kevyn (2014)

My trusty field notebook, grain size card, and pencil.

Laura, Leah, and Emily figuring out how to use a GIS application on the iPads

From right: Zegri, Sarah, Emily, and Tib inside the National Archaeological Museum

At Caldera Beach looking at phases 0 and 1 of the Minoan Eruption

Jonathan overlooking the town of Perissa from Ancient Thera (2014)

Leah with the Saronic Gulf behind her

The girls taking their first test on the ferry to Santorini (2018)

Too excited for Nea Kameni

Holly at Cape Akrotiri (2016)

Lunch outside of the National Archaeological Museum (2018)

Natasha measuring the Minoan phases 0 and 1 (aka bank robber)

Figure 3.

BOAT Day!

A lonely tomato thriving on Nea Kameni

Excavation of Xeste 3

Fortress walls built during the Peloponnesian War to protect the Temple of Poseidon from Spartan invasion

Sarah, Sarah, and Zegri at the Temple of Poseidon (Sounio) on a very windy day

Class of 2018 at the Acropolis

Autobreccia of glassy dacite on Nea Kameni (Leah for scale)

Looking north to Aspronisi (Lisa)

After 4 years of coming to Santorini every summer… THIS day is #1.

Sarah at Ahmoudhi Quarry

Santorini donkeys

Weeks of studying pyroclastic rocks can really get to your throat, nose, and eyes (ash and pumice are technically glass) (2017)

Looking north across the caldera

Rachael at Ahmoudhi Quarry

Prom pic looking south over the caldera

Alex (2014)

“The Boxers” fresco excavated from Akrotiri (~ 1613 BC)

Kevyn measuring grain sizes (2014)

Brittany on the Acropolis (view to the south of Athens)

Port of Naxos

Micah looking at minerals. Cape Akrotiri (2016)

Sarah teaching Tib how to describe rocks

Emily and Leah coming into Santorini

Brittany and Leah looking a minerals in scoria at Red each

The group excited at the airport (before our travel woes) (2018)

40 mile an hour winds don’t really show up in the photo

Oia, as seen from the ferry through the north passage of Santorini

Sheridan on the trail – Cape Plaka (2017)

Emily rocking a bandana doing fieldwork in a pumice quarry (bandanas help protect us from inhaling ash)

Leah looking at a basalt dike (view to the south over the caldera)

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