Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 1 article published in JoVE Environment Protocol for Measuring the Thermal Properties of a Supercooled Synthetic Sand-water-gas-methane Hydrate Sample Michihiro Muraoka1, Naoko Susuki1, Hiroko Yamaguchi2, Tomoya Tsuji3, Yoshitaka Yamamoto1 1Research Institute of Energy Frontier, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, 3SHIZEN ikohza, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia We present a protocol for measuring the thermal properties of synthetic hydrate-bearing sediment samples comprising sand, water, methane, and methane hydrate.