The Malcolm H. Wiener Visiting Research Professor for 2007-08, Prof. Floyd W. McCoy (University of Hawaii), has been conducting research on “The Late Bronze Age eruption of Thera (Santorini)” for many years and arrived at the Lab in September. Prof. McCoy presented a Fitch-Wiener Lab seminar that was extremely well-attended the day before Thanksgiving, and is offering a winter seminar on “Catastrophism in the archaeological and historic record: Causes, consequences, recognition and mitigation” as well as a two-day field trip to Santorini in the spring. He is also presenting a lecture at the Canadian Institute in Greece on "The LBA Eruption of Santorini" on Feb. 12th.