BASS was well represented in talks at the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2024) in Vienna.

Lea Lange presented a talk about „Sampling the SML for traces gases: a case study of sampling technique and resulting correction factors”

Bernd Jähne talked about „[...] the Crucial Role of Wind-Wave-Tunnel Studiesto Reveal the Mechanisms of Air-Sea Gas Exchange”

And Manuela van Pinxteren presented „Amino acids, carbohydrates and lipids in the tropical oligotrophic Atlantic Ocean: Sea-to-air transfer and atmospheric in situ formation”

The BASS team met in the CAU Wissenschaftszentrum in Kiel for the annual meeting.

Testing the simultaneous operation of both catamarans HALOBATES and GLAUCUS ATLANTICUS in the port of Bremerhaven from onboard RV Heincke and the work boat. 

One of the first deployments of the new research catamaran GLAUCUS ATLANTICUS. GLAUCUS has an automatic water sampler, which can collect 24 discrete samples from the sea-surface microlayer and underlying water.

The BASS team had a follow-up meeting – discussing prrliminary results of the mesocosm study in the spring and planning further joint experiments.

During the mesocosm experiment, the BASS consortium used the chance of having most PhD and master students at Wilehlmshaven to have a workshop for networking for young researchers.

Graduate students met at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel for a training workshop on data analysis and management.

BASS group met for a winter retreat at ICBM in Wilhelmshaven, and planned joint mesocosm and field studies 

The first field campaign of BASS was successfully completed off Helgoland Island in the German Bight within a joint campaign of research vessels „Senckenberg” and „Littorina” (Sept. 19-23, 2022). 

BASS Kick-Off Meeting 5-6 July 2022 with visit of the University of Hamburg wind-wave tunnel.

Autonomous catamaran HALOBATES during checkout on the Jade Bay [YouTube-Video]. At present, German only

HALOBATES, the autonomous catamaran, in the field

SURF - the Sea Surface Facility at ICBM