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Medeco research cruise: Exploring the diversity of Mediterranean deep-sea ecosystems to better preserve them...

Medeco is one of the key cruises for the Hermes research project in the Mediterranean Sea and represents the Pourquoi pas?'s first expedition in this region. Using Ifremer's ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Victor 6000, some sixty scientists from ten different countries will—over two months time—study various deep-sea ecosystems that dwell in very different geographical and geological settings: Var Canyon, cold-water coral reefs found on the Calabrian Arc as well as cold seeps found south of Greece and Turkey, in the Nile deep-sea fan and south of the Calabrian Arc.

This multidisciplinary research cruise, federating geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, biologists and microbiologists, will cover the eastern and western basins of the Mediterranean Sea to explore their biodiversity and to study the unique habitats found in this fragile body of water. [...]

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Mission Medeco