FP7 - HERMIONE project
Programme: FP 7
Project Title: Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas
Acronym: Hermione
Duration: 2009-2012
Total Budget : € 10.884.787
Web site: www.eu-hermione.net
Summary: HERMIONE is the successor to the highly successful HERMES project, which finished in March 2009. It is designed to make a major advance in our 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 adaptions 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. To design and implement effective governance strategies and management plans we must understand the extent, natural dynamics and interconnection of ocean ecosystems and integrate socio-economic research with natural science. HERMIONE study sites include the Arctic, North Atlantic and Mediterranean and cover a range of ecosystems including cold-water corals, canyons, cold and hot seeps, seamounts and open slopes and deep basins. The project will make strong connections between deep-sea science and user needs. HERMIONE will enhance the education and public perception of the deep-ocean issues through some of the major European aquaria. A major aim of the project is to create a platform for discussion between a range of stakeholders, and contribute to EU environmental policies.
Contact person in ISMAR: fabio.trincardi@ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Natural Environment Research Council – NERC - United Kingdom
- French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea - Ifremer - France
- The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research – NIOZ -Netherlands
- University of Barcelona UB - Spain
- Hellenic Centre of Marine Research HCMR - Greece
- Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften IFM-GEOMAR - Denmark
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche/ISMAR CNR/ISMAR - Italy
- Alfred Wegener Institute – AWI - Denmark
- University of Tromsø UiT - Norway
- National University of Ireland, Galway – NUI -Ireland
- Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg FAU - Denmark
- University of Gent Ugent - Belgium
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Scientificas CSIC - Spain
- Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Scienze del Mare CONISMA - Italy
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology MPIMM - Denmark
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS - France
- Instituto Hidrografico - Portugal
- Jacobs University Bremen JUB -Denmark
- University of Bremen MARUM - Denmark
- Cardiff University - United Kingdom
- Institute of Marine Research IMR - Norway
- University of Goteborg -Sweden
- University of Southampton - United Kingdom
- Netherlands Institute for Ecology NIOO - Netherlands
- University of Aberdeen - United Kingdom
- University of Liverpool - United Kingdom
- Scottish Association of Marine Science SAMS - United Kingdom
- University of Aveiro - Portugal
- Université de Marie et Pierre Curie - France
- P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology SIO - Russia
- United Nations Environment Programme WCMC - United Kingdom
- University of the Azores - Portugal
- Median SCP - Spain
- ArchimediX - Germany
- University of Thessaly - Greece
- University College Cork - Ireland
- National Marine Aquarium - United Kingdom
- Acquario di Genova - Italy
