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Project PHAEDRA 2006
Project PHAEDRA 2006
June 25 - July 4, 2006
From
June 25 to July 4, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
and Hellenic Center for Marine Research - led team of engineers,
geologists, geochemists, archaeologists, and historians will
embark on the Greek research vessel Aegaeo to explore deep
sites within Greek national waters. Named for a Greek mythological
character, Project PHAEDRA 2006 is the second season of a
multi-year Greek-American ocean research partnership.
This
year the PHAEDRA team is using a combination of deep submergence
technologies with integrated technological systems that will
collect data to answer questions fundamental to both social
science and earth science.
Project
PHAEDRA embraces three areas of inquiry: archaeology in deep
water, deep submergence technology development, and oceanographic
science. Using advanced deep submergence technology, we intend
over time to document statistically significant numbers of
ancient shipwrecks from various periods in order to reach
new insights about human history and pre-history.
An
interdisciplinary project, PHAEDRA scientists will also investigate
geological and geochemical features such as hydrothermal vents,
methane seeps and brine pools, fluid flow and seeping through
submarine active faults to better understand the processes
at work in the deep sea.
PHAEDRA's
primary institutional partners are the Hellenic
Centre for Marine Research (HCMR); and the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Additional partners
are the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), the Johns
Hopkins University, University of Michigan, Franklin
W. Olin College of Engineering, and University
of Southampton.
Support
for this program comes from NOAA OE, the Hellenic Centre for
Marine Research, the National Science Foundation, the Thera
Foundation, and private sponsors.
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