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Prof. Dr. Oliver Wurl
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Dr. Mariana Ribas-Ribas
Funded by the German Research Foundation
Project development
07.10.2024
Claudia Thölen, Mike Novak, Jochen Wollschläger and Rüdiger Röttgers of BASS subproject 1.3 visited the Ocean Optics Conference in Gran Canaria, where Claudia and Mike had BASS related talks and Jochen and Rüdiger presented posters.
19.08.2024
Isha Athale visited the 19th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME19) with a poster presentation about diversity, activity and adaptations of the microbial community in the sea-surface microlayer of the North Sea.
19.09.2024
BASS spokesperson Oliver Wurl participated in the „Hirn vom Hahn” ("brain from the tap") format in Oldenburg, where scientists are invited to share their science with the public in a comfortable pub setting.
09.07.2024
RV Heincke and the BASS team are setting sails to start the big BASS campaign around Helgoland with two research vessels, RV Heincke and MS Fritz Reuter, both research catamarans HALOBATES and GLAUCUS A., research plane Jade One and drifting sensors.
28.06.2024
BASS goes KiWO! Lea, Falko, Shubham and Theresa were on board the Alkor for the Open Ship during the Kieler Woche representing the project and demonstrating SML sampling.
21.06.2024
Carsten Rauch presented the BASS project during the „Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft” (Long night of science) at the botanical gardens in Wilhelmshaven.
05.06.2024
We installed some new sensors on Glaucus Atlanticus and tested them multiple times at the Jade Bay in Wilhelmshaven before the BASS campaign in July.
01.06.2024
Where the ocean meets the sky... BASS joins the "Dicovery Days" of the ICBM in Oldenburg.
22.05.2024
For a few days this month the BASS PhD students and their supervisors met in Oldenburg at a writing retreat for a deep dive into discussions and some time of focused paper writing.
16.04.2024
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”
19.02.2024
A part of the BASS team visited the Ocean Science Meeting in New Orleans, USA.
29.01.2024
The BASS team conducted experiments in the Wind-Wave Tank of the University of Hamburg.
22.01.2024
The BASS team met in the CAU Wissenschaftszentrum in Kiel for the annual meeting.
02.11.2023
Testing the simultaneous operation of both catamarans HALOBATES and GLAUCUS ATLANTICUS in the port of Bremerhaven from onboard RV Heincke and the work boat.
02.11.2023
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.
17. - 18.10.2023
The BASS team had a follow-up meeting – discussing prrliminary results of the mesocosm study in the spring and planning further joint experiments.
22.09.2023
Jasper Zöbelein of SP 1.5 made third place in the ICYmare poster contest with his poster about the BASS mescosmn experiment.
02.06.2023
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.
15.05. - 16.06.2023
The BASS team conducted a 5 week experiment in the Sea-Surface Facility at the Centre of Marine Sensors in Wilhelmshaven.
10.03.2023
BASS has a Scientific Advisory Board with Prof. Dr Heather Allen (The Ohio State University), Dr. Michale Cuncliffe (University of Plymouth and The Marine Biological Association UK) and Prof. Dr. Robert Upstill-Goddard (Newcastle University) as members. We welcome them to BASS and look forward to working with them.
07. - 09.02.2023
Graduate students met at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel for a training workshop on data analysis and management.
16. - 17.01.2023
BASS group met for a winter retreat at ICBM in Wilhelmshaven, and planned joint mesocosm and field studies
15.01.2023
The DFG Research Group BASS was presented in the 01/2023 issue of the Bunsen Magazine (https://bunsen.de/bmo)
19. - 23.09.2022
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).
05. - 06.07.2022
BASS Kick-Off Meeting 5-6 July 2022 with visit of the University of Hamburg wind-wave tunnel.
Pressemittelung: Einblicke in die dünne Haut der Ozeane
11.05.2022: Erfolg für Oldenburger Umwelt- und Meeresforschung: DFG fördert neue Forschungsgruppe
Autonomous catamaran HALOBATES during checkout on the Jade Bay [YouTube-Video]. At present, German only
HALOBATES, the autonomous catamaran, in the field