Acknowledgements

There was not a single person who was less than helpful in avoiding delays and crises with the 1987/88 programme, but special mention must be made of Jim Barker, Garth Varcoe, Cass Roper, the OIC and Base Mechanic of Scott Base, and VXE6 Helicopter Squadron for giving us the priority and good will needed to make my extremely tight timetable for Erebus and the Sakurajima Volcano Observatory possible. I assure them all that it was very worthwhile.

I also thank my team of Susan Ellis, Terry Ball and Steven Lassky for their dedication, Brian Anderson, and Bill McIntosh for assistance on the mountain, Phil Kyle for co-operating in our descent from Erebus, and for supporting the continuation of the seismic programme with NSF, and Katsu Kaminuma for his full and generous support of the programme, even though he did not get permission to come to Scott Base this season.