The team

This project is run from the Department of Biological Sciences and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep-Sea Research at the University of Bergen. The University Museum of Bergen is a major partner in the project and will be in charge of the curation of the material and documenting material to be barcoded through NorBol. In addition, they are providing taxonomic expertise on their respective animal groups. The University of Tromsø and the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) will be provide material of fauna from cold seeps collected through the AKMA project, and from previous expeditions. In addition, they will contribute with taxonomic expertise on foraminifera from vents and seeps. From these three institutions as well as from others, taxonomists covering all major groups are contributing to the project (see below).