In January 2005 Kourounis brought his camera to the remote Danakil Depression in the harsh Ethiopian desert and was lowered 60 ft (18 m) into the smoking crater of the active Erta Ale volcano.

Kourounis has been a guest on television programs, including CTV Newsnet, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, BBC-TV, and Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet.

[6] The show has featured Kourounis participating in such adventures as tornado chasing, rappelling into erupting volcanoes, driving into the eye of hurricanes, enduring extremes of heat and cold and boating on a lake of sulfuric acid at Ijen in Indonesia.

[citation needed] Kourounis co-hosted and was the director of photography on three episodes of the television series Storm Hunters which was produced for The Canadian Weather Network.

[7] The East Coast episode was filmed on location in Nova Scotia, including Peggys Cove and the Cape Breton Highlands, along the Cabot Trail.

The Western episode showcased avalanche control crews that work in the mountain ranges of British Columbia, bringing down unstable snow using explosives.