Microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles in Baltic Sea methane pockmarks.

The project focuses on microbial activity as well as geochemical and mineralogical processes within the seafloor of the Baltic Sea, where active freshwater seepage and methane leakage occur. The research was conducted at an active pockmark (e.g. MET1-MP), in sediments collected from methane accumulation sites without visible gas seepage from the seafloor (e.g. MET2), and in sediments from the Gdansk Deep (ZGG), which served as reference material.