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Project Baseline Vinkeveen Project Baseline empowers passionate citizens to observe and record change within the world’s aqua Connect underwater objects by logging positions.

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Map route through gps position. Create GPS based map of the objects. Monitor state of objects. Monitor fish populations. Monitor salt levels
Clean up underwater garbage. Many thanks to our supporters! Scuba Academie & GUE Netherlands

22/08/2023

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Op 3 maart, 31 maart, 28 april organiseert Scuba-Academie weer bootduiken in het kader van het project Baseline. Activit...
17/02/2019

Op 3 maart, 31 maart, 28 april organiseert Scuba-Academie weer bootduiken in het kader van het project Baseline. Activiteiten: documenteren wrakken, timelapse locaties bep***n en plaatsen p***n, temperatuur en zichtmetingen. Aanmelden via de agenda bootduiken van Scuba-Academie.

16/08/2018
16/08/2018
In Vinkeveen we have few Lota Lota (Burbot) fish left. In the dutch waters this species is nearly extinct. We know that ...
24/07/2018

In Vinkeveen we have few Lota Lota (Burbot) fish left. In the dutch waters this species is nearly extinct. We know that they are highly influenced in their reproduction by temperature. In 2017 therefore RAVON asked Project Baseline Vinkeveen if we could deploy temperature loggers. Stichting RAVON focusses on study and protection of the in The Netherlands living amfibious, reptile and fish. So these loggers where placed by Project Baseline Vinkeveen volunteers on the edge of the Sand Island 4 diving area. After a year in the water we got to remove them last weekend. All loggers where intact and untouched. They are currently on their way back to Stichting Ravon.

Project Baseline Vinkeveen wordt voortgezet vanuit GUE centrum Scuba-Academie. KICK-OFF 26 juli bij Scuba-Academie 19:00...
20/07/2018

Project Baseline Vinkeveen wordt voortgezet vanuit GUE centrum Scuba-Academie.
KICK-OFF 26 juli bij Scuba-Academie 19:00 uur
- meten, observeren en registreren van de veranderingen van het aquatisch mileu
- documenteren van wrakken op de gehele plas
- samenwerking met Dupan/ duurzame palingsector Nederland en het registreren van de paling groei
- duikprojecten in de "Zuidplas"
- maandelijkse bootduiken voor vrijwilligers "Baseline"
- en nog veel meer.

We gaan nog niet duiken op de 26e. De kick-off is een informatieve avond aangaande het project.

Inschrijven: https://www.supersaas.nl/schedule/scuba-academie/(Duik)__evenementen

20/07/2018
18/07/2018

We have exciting news! scuba-academie will be taking over Project Baseline Vinkeveen.

After 8 years of working hard on Project Baseline Vinkeveen it is time to further professionalise it. As you might have noticed Project Baseline Vinkeveen has been less active over this last year. The 2 remaining boardmembers (Jan Plukkel/Rick van Dijk) have been active with other projects. Jan is nearly a professional photographer and Rick has moved towards board work for the regional water authorities and other caving adventures.

Scuba Academie is becoming a GUE dive center and running Project Baseline Vinkeveen from the Scuba Academie basis guarantees continuity and many activities. We are therefore very excited to announce that as per july 26, 2018 Scuba Academie will be running Project Baseline Vinkeveen. Ofcourse we will remain volunteers and be part of Project Baseline Vinkeveen team. We could not have wished for a better team to take over. From day one Cees den Toom has supported us and has always been a keen Project Baseline fan.

There have been many volunteers working hard on Project Baseline Vinkeveen over these last years. We would like to thank them for all the support and hope for their continious Project Baseline Vinkeveen support. A special mention is needs to go out to Marco Garitta and Jack Vliegendhart who both where the orginal founders. Without our original fundamentals buddies we would never have come so far.

Scuba Academie will have a Project Baseline Vinkeveen in new style kick-off July 26. A further invitation will follow. We are looking forward to it!

Thank you!
Jan Plukkel & Rick van Dijk

We hebben heel mooi nieuws! scuba-academie gaat Project Baseline Vinkeveen overnemen.

Na 8 jaar Project Baseline Vinkeveen krijgen we de kans om het project verder te professionaliseren. Zoals je wellicht gemerkt hebt is Project Baseline Vinkeveen het laatste jaar wat minder actief geweest. De 2 nog actieve bestuursleden (Jan Plukkel/Rick van Dijk) zijn telkens actiever geworden in andere projecten. Jan is practisch professioneel fotograaf en Rick is naast grot(duik)avonturen zeer actief geworden binnen het Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht.

Scuba Academie wordt een GUE duikcentrum. Door Project Baseline Vinkeveen te borgen bij en in Scuba Academie garanderen we continuïteit en meer activiteiten. Daarom zijn we zeer blij te mogen aankondigen dat per 26 juli, 2018 Scuba Academie Project Baseline Vinkeveen gaat overnemen. Uiteraard blijven we vrijwilligers in het project en hopen dat jullie allen dat ook doen. We konden niet voor een beter vervolg en team wensen bij Scuba Academie. Vanaf dag één heeft Cees den Toom en zijn team ons gesteund en zijn ze er altijd voor Project Baseline Vinkeveen geweest.

Zeer veel vrijwilligers hebben de laatste jaren keihard aan Project Baseline Vinkeveen gewerkt. We willen jullie allemaal bedankten voor alle steun en toekomstige steun. Een speciale dank gaat uit naar Marco Garrita en Jack Vliegendhart. Zonder de start van met deze fundie buddies was het project nooit zo ver gekomen.

26 juli zal er bij Scuba Academie een kick-off gehouden worden in de nieuwe stijl. Hier volgt nog een verdere aankondiging over. We kijken er naar uit!

Iedereen bedankt!
Jan Plukkel & Rick van Dijk

We just received the results back from last years NETLAKE study on Microplastics. VInkeveen performed ok-ish in comparis...
25/07/2017

We just received the results back from last years NETLAKE study on Microplastics. VInkeveen performed ok-ish in comparison. Vinkeveen had 0 plastics smaller then < 0,5 cm and 5 plastics > 0,5 cm. Check out these results:

Yesterday we deployed the 2 sediment traps per request of NETLAKE and NIOO-KNAW. Volunteers Klaas Talsma and Klaas Talsm...
14/07/2017

Yesterday we deployed the 2 sediment traps per request of NETLAKE and NIOO-KNAW. Volunteers Klaas Talsma and Klaas Talsma JR build these 2 sediment traps following the NETLAKE protocol. As we are a deep lake we deployed at two different depths. Thank you for all the help Klaas and Klaas Jr!

Photography by: Klaas talsma en Jan Plukkel

Today Project Baseline Vinkeveen deployed 4 temperature sensors for Stichting Reptielen Amfibieën Vissen Onderzoek Neder...
11/05/2017

Today Project Baseline Vinkeveen deployed 4 temperature sensors for Stichting Reptielen Amfibieën Vissen Onderzoek Nederland. These sensors are part of a larger study into Burbots in The Netherlands. These sensors will log temperature all the way into next winter. The bouy we deployed is connected to the rope next to the 18 meter platform in the diving area (Sand Island 4) of the Vinkeveen North Lake.

Because we often receive questions about Project Baseline funding, we (and others) have asked Project Baseline to be mor...
08/05/2017

Because we often receive questions about Project Baseline funding, we (and others) have asked Project Baseline to be more transparant about funding.

This has resultated in this a newsletter to all volunteers from Project Baseline headquarters. The link to the newsletter is below and here are some excerpts on Funding, Budget, and Transparency

In regards to Project Baseline Vinkeveen. We have never had any extra funding except from volunteers paying for PBVV materials that have been used in PBVV activities.

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Transparency with respect to Project Baseline’s financials has been a priority since our inception though it appears that we have not done a very good job at communicating our status. Below you will find a summary followed by great detail in relation to these financial transactions.

Summary
* No money has been spent by GUE/PB to facilitate GlobalSubDive projects including those aboard the Baseline Explorer.
* GlobalSubDive has instead been responsible for the largest financial contributions to our work, without which we would not have our database interface.
* Membership revenue has been insufficient to consistently cover Vanessa’s salary, which is why we have not filled that position since her departure and instead are focusing on part-time work to address our promotional and communication efforts.
* We remain in need of finding a sustainable financial model to support the back-end work that we know is needed to support PB, including: 1) maintenance of and improvements to the database and database interface; 2) promotional work, outreach, and communications/reporting; 3) website upgrades and maintenance; and 4) fund raising. Without the support for these positions the hard work our volunteers do would go unnoticed and Project Baseline would cease to exist.
* Moving forward, we will be tracking and reporting our financials in the form presented in the 2016 Annual Report.
* We’re considering reporting our status more regularly, quarterly for instance, but this will require an allocation of time and therefore dollars that we don’t have at present.

Income
* The majority of our income has come from GUE membership dues. We have been steady at ~1,000 members for several years and Project Baseline is ear-marked $39 per membership. Thus, PB has received ~$40,000 per year from GUE membership dues. Last year that was $46,215.
* We’ve received very small periodic donations – usually $50 - $500. Last year, those totaled $556.
* GlobalSubDive contributed approximately $80,000 directly to Project Baseline between 2015 and 2016 that didn’t flow through GUE’s account but were listed in our 2016 Annual Report. These funds were earmarked for promoting Project Baseline and Baseline Explorer missions with scientific and conservation organizations, uploading Baseline Explorer data to the PB database, and improving the database interface.

Expenses
* Our largest expense has been salary and benefits associated with the single funded full-time position that was held by Vanessa from about 2013 to about December 2016. For most years, this position cost GUE more than PB’s membership revenue provided thus we have always been looking for additional sources of funding.
* We spent $30,450 on the development of and revisions to the database interface between 2013 and 2015.
* We spent, $14,346 between 2014 and 2015 for part-time work to move the back-log of data from Project Managers into the database as well as data collected from the 2014 GlobalSubDive missions on Pacific Provider and the 2015 missions on Baseline Explorer, and to develop and implement procedures to more quickly and effectively obtain and enter data from our Project Managers into the database.
* We’ve spent $21,090 between 2010 and 2016 on travel expenses associated with sending Vanessa to the GUE conferences, trade shows, and out to some of our project locations to conduct PB Workshops and work with teams to launch and expand their efforts.
* We’ve spent $5,346 between 2010 and 2016 on printed promotional materials, advertising, and marketing.
* We spent $500 in 2015 on team grants intended to encourage Project Managers to participate in scientific or public events in their areas.
* The $80,000 from GlobalSubDive was used to engage in promoting Project Baseline with scientific and conservation organizations and to process video transect, photographic, and numeric data from the 2016 Baseline Explorer missions into the Project Baseline Database and into deliverable files for the scientific collaborators on those missions. In 2015 and 2016 a portion of this was used on minor fixes to the database interface.

In-Kind Contributions

We attempted to capture in-kind contributions that have been made by various companies to support Project Baseline operations in the 2015 Annual Report. We stopped this because, at present we aren’t tracking all the different contributions made by people and organizations around the world to our work and feel that it is unfair to only report those that we’re most directly connected to at HQ. At some point, we believe there would be significant value in tracking and reporting as much of the in-kind support received by our Projects as possible. The major contributions that we’re currently aware of include:

* GlobalSubDive – sustained promotional support aboard Baseline Explorer and yearly public outreach events.
* GeoHydros, Inc – provided office space and logistical support for Caylin and then Vanessa between 2009 and 2016.
* Halcyon Manufacturing – provided products for auctions and project support.
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Click on the link below to read the full newsletter.

Listen to the beautifull sound of the Vinkeveen Lota Lota in the mating season.
10/03/2017

Listen to the beautifull sound of the Vinkeveen Lota Lota in the mating season.

Midden in de winter, wanneer het water op zijn koudst is, is de kwabaal in paaistemming. En dat laat de hij luid en duidelijk horen. Om elkaar te kunnen vinden maken ze namelijk geluiden. Afgelopen winter gingen onderzoekers van RAVON gewapend met een onderwatermicrofoon op zoek naar het geluid van…

Project Baseline Vinkeveen is ready for Duikvaker 2017.. See you all there.. The place to be this weekend!!
04/02/2017

Project Baseline Vinkeveen is ready for Duikvaker 2017..
See you all there.. The place to be this weekend!!

Exciting projects have been done in 2016 and new ones for 2017 are planned. Want to know more about them then pay a visi...
02/02/2017

Exciting projects have been done in 2016 and new ones for 2017 are planned. Want to know more about them then pay a visit to our booth at Duikvaker 2017.

Photo by: René Lipmann

In two weeks time (4-5 Feb.) the dive show Duikvaker will be held for the 25th time. Project Baseline Vinkeveen arranged...
20/01/2017

In two weeks time (4-5 Feb.) the dive show Duikvaker will be held for the 25th time. Project Baseline Vinkeveen arranged again a booth on the dive show for Project Baseline.

So if you would like to know more about Project Baseline then come and see us at Duikvaker. This year you will find us in Hal 1 next to the guys of Ghost fishing.

See you all at Duikvaker 2017
http://www.duikvaker.nl/

Team Baseline, we just received the news that Project Baseline volunteer Hugo Ramakers has passed away. We wish his fami...
01/12/2016

Team Baseline, we just received the news that Project Baseline volunteer Hugo Ramakers has passed away. We wish his family and friends our deepest condolences.

Today Project Baseline Vinkeveen and it's volunteers are featured in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) with last...
19/09/2016

Today Project Baseline Vinkeveen and it's volunteers are featured in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) with last weekends cleanup day.

An extra huge thank you scuba-academie and Scuba Diving Vinkeveense Plassen and Bert Rietveld for supporting us once again!

Today our team of dedicated volunteers cleaned up the Vinkeveen lake. We focuses on the area in front of Sand Island 5, ...
17/09/2016

Today our team of dedicated volunteers cleaned up the Vinkeveen lake. We focuses on the area in front of Sand Island 5, 6 as this summer there was the Float'in Party. Result was that we collected bags filled with beer bottles, plastic cups, over 30 CO2 chargers and more junk party people toss in our lake. It's interesting how event organisations are obligated to clean their venue's but if the venue is on water no one cares.

Yesterday Project Baseline Vinkeveen was featured in the newspaper Witte Weekblad.
09/09/2016

Yesterday Project Baseline Vinkeveen was featured in the newspaper Witte Weekblad.

Today our work in the NETLAKE research was featured in the national newspaper NRC.
01/09/2016

Today our work in the NETLAKE research was featured in the national newspaper NRC.

Onderzoek: In de Vinkeveense plassen doen duikers proeven voor wetenschappers. Steeds meer leken zoals zij helpen wetenschappers bij hun onderzoek. In het Engels: ‘citizen science’.

Yesterday we collected all tea bags from the water (see previous post) and we also took a microplastics sample. The nati...
29/08/2016

Yesterday we collected all tea bags from the water (see previous post) and we also took a microplastics sample. The national newspaper NRC and our always supporting Duiken magazine were also there. So keep a look out in the media for us aswell.

Today we are featured in the newspaper Witte Weekblad with the Netlake tea bag index research.  Nice timing as tomorrow ...
05/08/2016

Today we are featured in the newspaper Witte Weekblad with the Netlake tea bag index research. Nice timing as tomorrow we collect the second batch of tea bags.

Later this summer we are participating in microplastics research with our Vinkeveen lake. This is part of the larger NET...
21/07/2016

Later this summer we are participating in microplastics research with our Vinkeveen lake. This is part of the larger NETLAKE study being done this summer. Check out this video about plankton eating microplastics:

Even the tiniest animals in the sea are exposed to the global environmental challenge of marine litter. These little creatures are filter feeders, and indisc...

The Tea Bag index research we are running, is featured today in the "Algemeen Dagblad" news paper. Vinkeveen divers maki...
15/07/2016

The Tea Bag index research we are running, is featured today in the "Algemeen Dagblad" news paper. Vinkeveen divers making a difference!

Last evening a team of 9 Project Baseline divers deployed the research materials for the Tea-bag research. We are partic...
28/05/2016

Last evening a team of 9 Project Baseline divers deployed the research materials for the Tea-bag research. We are participating in this summers NETLAKE research for the Tea Bag Index. We deployed over 72 tea bags. A special thanks goes out the Baseline divers that came out from Germany to help!

Project Baseline Vinkeveen has been measuring environmental change over the last 5 years at over 6 different landmarks i...
25/04/2016

Project Baseline Vinkeveen has been measuring environmental change over the last 5 years at over 6 different landmarks in our lake. Some of our volunteers have adopted one of these landmarks in order to map, survey and document the landmark itself.

GUE diver Jasper Algra adopted the car wreck location. This car that is laying upside down is located between island 4 and 5 at 18 meters of depth. The last weeks Jasper has been busy documenting the wreck with his GUE buddy's. He is trying to find out what kind of car this is and how it got there. He believes it is a Ford car from the 1970-ies. Unfortunatly he was not yet able to recover a VIN/Chasisnumber as the motorarea is submerged under mud/sand. Therefore he is trying to do identification through photography. He believes the car of probably a Ford Cortina GT.

Jasper also started mapping the surrounding area. The goal is to create a detailed map of the car with surrounding bottomprofile. To get there many more dives are necessary. Are you up for a dive? Would you like to help? Please leave a message here or contact Jasper direct.

Project Baseline Vinkeveen was featured with the Lota Lota project in the Ervaar magazine.
19/04/2016

Project Baseline Vinkeveen was featured with the Lota Lota project in the Ervaar magazine.

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Today Project Baseline Vinkeveen is featured in the national newspaper AD with our Lota Lota (Kwabaal) project.
17/02/2016

Today Project Baseline Vinkeveen is featured in the national newspaper AD with our Lota Lota (Kwabaal) project.

Duikers spannen zich in om de kwabaal voor de Vinkeveense Plassen te behouden. Daarom plaatsen zij 'huisjes' en creëren ze paarplekken, zodat de ...

Wintertime is the best time to find the Lota Lota. It likes cold water so it comes in winter time from the deep to the m...
11/02/2016

Wintertime is the best time to find the Lota Lota. It likes cold water so it comes in winter time from the deep to the more shallower parts of the lake for breeding. Although they are now in the shallows they are still hard to find but on our night dive on 10-2-’16 Ben Möhlmann and Jan Plukkel found 2 of them in the diving area!! They located them about 20 meters apart from each other close to the bagger shack. They are quit big about 35 cm long and looked very healthy.

So if you go out for a dive and find a Lota Lota then please report it to Project Baseline Vinkeveen so we can register them.

Wintertijd is de beste tijd om de Kwabaal (Lota Lota) te zien. De Kwabaal houdt van koud water en komt in de winter vanuit het diepe naar het ondiepte om te paren. Ondanks dat ze nu naar de ondiepere gedeeltes gaan zijn ze nog steeds moeilijk te vinden. Tijdens de nachtduik van 10-2-’16 kwamen Ben Möhlmann en Jan Plukkel er 2 tegen in het duikgebied. Ze zaten z’n 20 meter uit elkaar vlakbij de bagger keet. Ze waren vrij groot z’n 35 cm en zagen er gezond uit.

Als je gaat duiken en je komt een Kwabaal tegen meld het dan bij Project Baseline Vinkeveen dan melden wij deze aan bij de juiste instanties.

Project Baseline on Duikvaker 2016This is the third year the Project Baseline was present at the dive show Duikvaker and...
10/02/2016

Project Baseline on Duikvaker 2016

This is the third year the Project Baseline was present at the dive show Duikvaker and again it was a big success. Two days of meeting and talking to people, friends and volunteers about what Baseline is, what we do and about the plans for this year.

In the booth were several Baseline projects present from The Netherlands and Belgium that represented their project. The projects that were present were: PB Muisbroek, PB Groene Heuvels, PB Haarlemmermeer and PB Vinkeveen. The theme of this year was gifts/donations. We collected a total of €50,- this amount is transferred to Project Baseline main office.

Project Baseline Vinkeveen like to thank the organisation of Duikvaker for the booth and to everybody else that made the dive show such a big success!

Thank you all and see you at Duikvaker 2017!
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Project Baseline op Duikvaker 2016

Dit was het derde jaar dat Project Baseline aanwezig is op Duikvaker en net als vorig jaar was het weer een groot succes. Twee dagen lang mensen ontmoeten, spreken met vrienden en vrijwilligers over wat we doen en wat we gaan doen in dit jaar.

In de stand waren de volgende projecten aanwezig: PB Muisbroek, PB Groene Heuvels, PB Haarlemmermeer en PB Vinkeveen. Het thema van dit jaar was giften. We hebben een totaal bedrag van €50,- opgehaald en dit is overgemaakt naar het hoofdkantoor van Project Baseline.

Project Baseline Vinkeveen wilt graag de organisatie van Duikvaker bedanken voor het mogelijk maken van stand en aan iedereen die mee gehoplen heeft om Duikvaker 2016 een succes te maken!

Hartelijk bedankt allemaal en tot Duikvaker 2017!!

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06/02/2016

Doneer jij morgen ook?

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