OMARC cluster: Ocean Margin Deep-Water Research Consortium
	OMARC conference
	ACES - Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study
	ANAXIMANDER - Exploration and Evaluation of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea Gas Hydrates and the associated Deep Biosphere
	ASSEMBLAGE - ASSEssMent of the BLAck Sea sedimentary system since the last Glacial Extreme
	COSTA - The Continental Slope Stability
	DEEPBUG - Development and assessment of new techniques and approaches for detecting sub-seafloor bacteria and their interaction with geosphere processes
	ECOMOUND - Environmental Controls on Mound Formation along the European Continental Margin
	EURODELTA - European Co-ordination on Mediterranean and Black Sea Prodeltas
	EURODOM - European Deep Ocean Margins: a new training-through-research frontier
	EUROSTRATAFORM - European Margin Strata Formation
	GEOMOUND - The Internal Mound Factory
	HYDRATECH - Techniques for the Quantification of Methane Hydrate in European Continental Margins
	PROMESS - Profiles across Mediterranean Sedimentary Systems. Part 1
	STRATAGEM - The Stratigraphical Development of the Glaciated European Margin
	Other projects related to methane fluxes and gas hydrates
	EU projects
	CRIMEA - Contribution of high-intensity gas seeps in the Black Sea to methane emission to the atmosphere
	HYACINTH - Deployment of HYACE tools in new tests on hydrates
	Other related projects
	MUMM - Methane in Gas Hydrate Bearing Sediments - Turnover Rates and Microorganis
	GHOSTDABS - Gas Hydrates: Occurrence, Stability, Transformation, Dynamic, and Biology in the Black Sea
	LOTUS - Long term Observatory for the Study of Control Mechanisms for the Formation and Destabilization of Gas Hydrate
	OMEGA - Shallow Marine Gas Hydrates: Dynamics of a Sensitive Methane Reservoir
	INGGAS - Integrated Geophysical Characterisation and Quantification of Gas Hydrates
	TECFLUX - Tectonically- induced Fluxes
	The GASHYDRATE web page
	European network projects
	ESONET - The European Sea Floor Observatory Network
	EU research
	FP5
	EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"
	FP6
	FP4
	Community Research and Development Information Service: CORDIS
	CORDIS home page
	EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"
	Key action - Sustainable Marine ecosystems
	OMARC
	METROL
	Research vessels used in METROL
	RV Heincke
	RV Gunnar Thorson
	St.F. Henry
	RV Poseidon
	Genetica II
	MS Line
	Research submersible JAGO
	Geophysical data managment
	Fielax -
	Data bases
	PANGAEA
	EU-SEASED
	The gas hydrate database
	Collaborating working groups
	Dr. Christian Huebscher - Institute of Geophysics, Univ. Hamburg
	METROL sub contractors
	Admiral Danish Fleet / Operator of RV Gunnar Thorson
	Oktopus
	Aquatec at MPI-Seewiesen/Submersible JAGO
	Multi Scan Dykker Service
	Education
	CREAM - Center for Research and Monitoring of the Marine Environment - a Marie Curie training site at NERI
	MarMic - School for Marine Microbiology
	Graduate Program in Geosciences and Astrophysics at IUB
	Web designer
	Luedeling Design
	WellCom GmbH