On Sunday, April 21, at 7 p.m., an event will be organized for the general public at the Bellonia Cultural Center in Fira, where all the scientists will present data from their research.
An international group of scientists – members of the oceanographic mission 398 of the International Ocean Exploration Program (IODP) will meet from April 20 to 25 in Santorini.
Scientists will participate in collaborative discussions, take geological tours of the volcanic complex and present the results of their scientific research to the public.
On Sunday, April 21, at 7 p.m., an event will be organized for the general public at the Bellonia Cultural Center in Fira, where all the scientists will present data from their research.
The meetings of the scientific group will be attended from Greece by the deputy professor, Paraskevi Nomikou, the professor, Stefanos Kilias, and the emeritus professor, Dimitris Papanikolaou, all from the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as Olga Koukousioura , laboratory-teaching staff of the Department of Geology of AUTH, and Paraskevi Polymenakou, principal researcher in the Department of Environmental Microbiology of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research.
The international oceanographic mission IODP 398 carried out from December 2022 to February 2023 surveys in the Santorini caldera and the surrounding area with the American research vessel “Joides Resolution”.
On board were 30 scientists from nine different countries, 30 technical staff and 60 crew. During these two months, cores were taken from the sediments and volcanic layers deep in the sea basins, at a depth of 900 meters below the sea floor. These cores were studied on board the ship and are now kept at the Marum Center for Marine Environmental Sciences of the University of Bremen in Germany. The samples are now being studied in laboratories around the world.
The main objectives of the mission were for the scientists to obtain a complete record of the geological history of the Santorini and Kolumbo volcanoes, extending even to the period when the Santorini eruptions took place mainly under the sea.
Objectives were also to record a large now extinct volcano near Christiana, to study how faulting and earthquakes affect volcanism in Santorini, to record offshore deposits from the great Minoan eruption, to study the frequency and effects of undersea explosive eruptions from Kolumbo and Kameni and the search for microbial ecosystems buried deep inside the Santorini volcano.
“Just one year after the mission, some spectacular results have already been published in prestigious international scientific journals (Nature group). We have discovered a huge underwater eruption of ancestral Santorini that took place half a million years ago in the southwestern part of the island. More recently we sampled and documented the pumice layer from the historic 726 AD eruption. of the Kameni volcano, which was bigger than we thought until now. We have also found a very thick layer of ash near Santorini from the Kos volcano, 120 km to the eastMrs. Nomikou points out to APE-MPE.
She adds that the meeting “will enable scientists to interact, share results and ideas, advance their new discoveries and inform residents and local authorities about the geological history of Santorini, thus contributing to a better understanding of the region’s geohazards».
Source: Skai
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