Funding Year: 2009
Funding Scheme: Small to medium scale collaborative project
Project Duration: 36 Months
Total Project Value: €10,884,787
EU Grant-Aid: €7,998,955
Funding to Ireland: €262,164
Lead Partner: Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
Irish Partner(s):
- National University of Ireland, Galway
- University College Cork
Website: HERMIONE
Project Summary:
The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in the knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modelers and socio-economists) that will integrate biodiversity,
specific adaptations and biological capacity in the context of a wide range of highly vulnerable deep-sea habitats. Gaining this understanding is crucial, because these ecosystems are now being affected by climate change and impacted by man through fishing, resource extraction, seabed installations and pollution.
Download further information on the FP7 HERMOINE project (Pdf 51k).
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