Expedition to an Active Volcano

Grade / Age

3 - 8 / 8 - 14

Duration

45 minutes

Explorer Classroom is a live, interactive online event featuring National Geographic Explorers.

Learn about Katlin’s expedition to Santorini and how she hopes to better understand how to predict explosive volcanic eruptions!

Credit: Mark Thiessen / National Geographic

Event Recording

About This Event

Explorer Katlin Bowman Adamczyk is an oceanographer and physical scientist who studies mercury chemistry and plastic pollution. She works for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center in California. She recently went on an exciting expedition to Santorini, Greece, an active volcano in the Mediterranean Sea, joined by a team of scientists with one collective goal: to better understand how to predict explosive volcanic eruptions in the future. Join this event to see firsthand footage of the expedition, to learn how they used a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to study underwater hydrothermal vents, and what the waters surrounding a volcano can tell us.

Featured Explorer

National Geographic Explorers are an international community of changemakers, who use the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world, while inspiring the next generation to do the same.

Explorer Since 2018

Katlin L. Bowman

Oceanographer

Katlin Bowman is an oceanographer who studies mercury chemistry and plastic pollution. She has spent nearly a year of her life at sea.

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