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The Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (www.hcmr.gr/en/) is the national marine laboratory of Greece. It supports three institutes, which collectively cover oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, marine biology, genetics and inland waters, from basic science to technological research. |
The Centre has well-equipped facilities in 4 major sites, in Athens and the islands of Crete and Rhodes, with public aquariums in the latter two island sites. It operates 3 research vessels (65 m Aegaeo, 26 m Philia, 14 m Alkyon), a 600 m manned submersible and several ROV systems, including a 2000 m system. It has been extremely active in all the EU framework programmes, involved in numerous projects as coordinator or a partner. Approximately 30% of its income is directly from the EU for research projects and it produces 150+ peer reviewed publications per year. The Centre is active throughout in the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent seas. At a national level it runs the Poseidon sea forecasting system and is responsible for both the National Fisheries Monitoring programme and the Waters Framework Directive monitoring system in Greece.
Keywords | Oceanography, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Marine biology, Genetics |
Address | 46,7 km, 19013, Anavisso, Greece |