Hotspot Ecosystems Research on the Margins of European Seas, or HERMES, was an international multidisciplinary project, from April 2005 to March 2009, that studied deep-sea ecosystems along Europe's deep-ocean margin.[1][2][3]
The HERMES project was funded by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, and was the predecessor to the HERMIONE project, which started in April 2009.[4]