EMCOL serves the needs of researchers working in the Eastern Mediterranean regions in the areas of natural hazards and environmental change, involving imaging of sea and lake sediments and analyzing important proxies in sediment cores. With the EMCOL facilities it is possible to map active faults and submarine landslides, determine high resolution records of past earthquakes and tsunamis that are essential for earthquake and tsunami risk assessment. The same facilities can also be used for determination of the high resolution sediment records of  sea-level, climate and ecological changes.