Since 1991, TTR has been actively involved into multi-disciplinary deep-sea geoscience studies. Apart from cruises, the research includes data processing in leading universities and laboratories of countries involved. The results of this work has appeared in more than 50 refereed papers in scientific journals including special issues of Marine Geology (#132, 1996) and Geo-Marine Letters (#18, 1998) and in nine comprehensive cruise reports published by UNESCO and its IOC.