Objective The purpose of the ANAXIMANDER project is to perform the delicate sampling of methane containing sediments and associated gas hydrate sites in the Eastern Mediterranean with a state of the art instrumentation, and to study the associated fluids and gas and the deep biosphere (bacteria) related to production of methane and/or to dissociation of gas hydrates. The field data will be studied in the laboratories by using the most modern technology, in order to develop the correct models of the various parameters that comprise the gas hydrate environment and to answer the relevant questions that have been up to now unanswered about the hydrate environment. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologybacteriologynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorologybiospheranatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds Programme(s) FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.4.-3. - Key action Sustainable Marine Ecosystems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts
