Paraskevi Nomikou

Geologist

University of Athens

Paraskevi Nomikou is one of Chief Scientists for the Greek leg of the expedition.

Her research interests lie mainly in the recognition of seafloor sedimentary and tectonic features that are mapped using SEABEAM technology and has a very broad background in the interpretation of seafloor morphology, marine sedimentation, regional tectonics, and volcanism. She has participated in many international multidisciplinary projects and she has dived with submersible THETIS of HCMR in many active submarine volcanoes of the Aegean Sea such as Paphsanias Volcano, Strongylli Volcano, Pachia Volcano, Nea Kameni Volcano and Kolumbo Volcano. She has participated in many marine geophysical/geological surveys over most of the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Sea and has been one of the very few specialists in the processing and interpretation of multibeam data collected over the past years by the RV AEGEON from HCMR. In 2010 she has joint the scientific party on board NAUTILUS research vessel and served as government representative, designated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additionally, she has joined the two educational research projects of HCMR “NAUTILOS 2005-2007” (www.nautiloshcmr.gr, www.explorenautilus.com) whose aim was to inspire young people to involve in ocean exploration.

Paraskevi graduated from University of Athens in 1996 with a degree in geology and completed her PhD in marine geodynamic at the same University in 2004. She is working in the Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment of University of Athens (NKUA) in the last 11 years and since 1999, she has been a scientific collaborator of the Oceanographic Institute at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (H.C.M.R).

Expeditions

Paraskevi participated in the following Ocean Exploration Trust expeditions:

2010

2011

Selected Publications

2014

Cantner, K., Carey, S., Sigurdsson, H., Nomikou, P. (2014). Integrated volcanologic and petrologic analysis of the 1650 AD eruption of Kolumbo submarine volcano. Journal of Volcanological and Geothermal Research 269: 28-43. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S03770273…

Nomikou, P., Croff Bell,K., Papanikolaou, D., Bejelou, K., Cantner, K., Sakellariou, D., Perros, I. (2014). Tsunami Hazard Risk of a future volcanic eruption of Kolumbo submarine volcano, NE of Santorini Caldera, Greece. Natural Hazards 72(3): 1375–1390. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-012-0405-0

Nomikou, P., Papanikolaou, D., Tibaldi, A., Carey, S., Livanos, I., Croff Bell K., Pasquarè, F., Rousakis, G. (2014). The detection of Volcanic Debris Avalanches (VDAs) along the Hellenic Volcanic Arc, using marine geophysical techniques. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences 37: 339-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8_30

2013

Bell, K., Carey, S., Nomikou, P., Sigurdsson, H., Sakellariou, D. (2013). Submarine evidence of a debris avalanche deposit on the eastern slope of Santorini Volcano, Greece. Tectonophysics 597-598: 147-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2012.05.006

Carey, S. Nomikou, P., Croff Bell, K., Lilley, M., Lupton, J., Roman, C., Stathopoulou, E., Bejelou, K., Ballard, R. (2013). CO2 Degassing from Hydrothermal Vents at Kolumbo Submarine Volcano, Greece and the Accumulation of Acidic Crater Water. Geology 41(9): 1035-1038. https://doi.org/10.1130/G34286.1

Kilias, S., Kilias, S., Nomikou, P., Papanikolaou, D., Polymenakou, P., Godelitsas, A., Argyraki, A., Carey, S., Gamaletsos, P., Mertzimekis, T., Stathopoulou, E., Goettlicher, J., Steininger, R., Betzelou, K., Livanos, I., Christakis, C., Croff Bell., K., Scoullos, M. (2013). New insights into hydrothermal vent processes in the unique shallow-submarine arc-volcano, Kolumbo (Santorini), Greece. Nature Scientific Reports 3(1): 2421. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep02421&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1…

Livanos, I., Nomikou, P., Papanikolaou, D., Rousakis, G. (2013). The volcanic debris avalanche on the SE submarine slope of Nisyros volcano, Greece: geophysical exploration and implications for subaerial eruption history. Geo-Marine Letters 33 (6): 419-431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-013-0338-y

Nomikou, P., Carey, S., Croff Bell, K., Papanikolaou, D., Bejelou, K., Alexandri, M., Cantner, K., Martin, J. (2013). Morphological analysis and related volcanic features of the Kolumbo submarine volcanic chain (NE of Santorini Island, Aegean Volcanic Arc). Zeitschrift fόr Geomorphologie 57: 29 - 47. https://doi.org/10.1127/0372-8854/2013/S-00142

Nomikou, P., Croff Bell, K., Papanikolaou, D., Livanos, I., Martin, J. (2013). Exploring the Avyssos-Yali-Strogyli submarine volcanic complex at the the Avyssos-Yali-Strogyli submarine volcanic complex at the eastern edge of the Aegean Volcanic Arc edge of the Aegean Volcanic Arc. Zeitschrift fόr Geomorphologie 57: 125-137.

Nomikou, P., Papanikolaou, D., Alexandri, M., Sakellariou, D., Rousakis, G. (2013). Submarine Volcanoes along the Aegean Volcanic Arc. Tectonophysics 597-598: 123-146. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S00401951…

2012

Nomikou, P., Carey, S., Papanikolaou, D., Croff Bell, K., Sakellariou, D., Alexandri, M., Bejelou, K. (2012). Submarine volcanoes of the Kolumbo volcanic zone NE of Santorini Caldera, Greece. Global and Planetary Change 90-91: 135-151. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092181811…