BATS, Bermuda Atlantic Time-series
A station in the Sargasso Sea about 80 km south-east of Bermuda that has been sampled every month since 1988. It sits beside Hydrostation S, where regular ocean measurements began in 1954, the longest-running oceanographic time series in the world.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1954 CE mainstream
Henry Stommel of Woods Hole begins regular measurements of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen at Hydrostation S, about 25 km south-east of Bermuda, which becomes the longest-running oceanographic time series in the world source - 1988 CE mainstream
the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences joins the US Joint Global Ocean Flux Study to create the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study, run alongside the Hydrostation S observations source - 1989 CE mainstream
1989 to 1994: monthly water samples from the surface to 250 m are counted by flow cytometry, one of the first long-term programmes to do so, and show Synechococcus peaking in spring and Prochlorococcus in summer and autumn source - 2001 CE mainstream
Steinberg and colleagues publish an overview of the first decade of BATS, 'a decade-scale look at ocean biology and biogeochemistry' source - 2011 CE mainstream
the genomes of two single-stranded DNA phages, viruses of bacteria, are fully sequenced from the marine environment for the first time, in work on the viruses of the BATS site source
Where
31.6670° N, 64.1670° W
The point is the position Wikipedia gives for the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study station, 31 40 N, 64 10 W, about 80 km south-east of Bermuda. The older Hydrostation S, which Stommel began in 1954, is a different place about 25 km south-east of the island.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Atlantic_Time-series_Study
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0645(00)00148-X
Each event carries Aion's own evidence grade (mainstream, disputed or speculative). This page repeats what the globe shows for this place.