The R/V Aegaeo cruise ends this morning, and at 8 am we get off the ship at the little harbor of Amoudhi on Santorini (Thera), with a load of core samples, samples collected during the ROV dives and our computers filled with data files from 936 km of seismic surveys of the ocean floor around the volcano. Our next expedition, on the R/V Endeavor, does not begin until 30. May, and we settle down for three weeks in a small house in the village of Akrotiri to work on processing and interpretation of all the data that we have collected. In addition, we will spend some of the days studying the volcanic deposits of Santorini on dry land for a change.

Figure caption:
A map of the Santorini region, showing the location of all the seismic
lines surveyed during the R/V Aegaeo expedition.