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Ben Lowin awarded NASA FINESST grant for coastal carbon cycle research

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Ben Lowin stands in a white t-shirt in front of green foliage. Fluffy dark hair halos his face, speckles his jaw, and condenses in a mustache. He looks proud though his spectacles and into the camera.

"Ben Lowin, a doctoral student in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and based at the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO), has been named a new investigator for NASA’s Future Investigators in the NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program. 

As a member of NASA’s Early Career Research (ECR) FINESST 2025-2027 cohort, Lowin will receive a research grant of $50,000 per year for two years to support his work on carbon cycle monitoring along the South Atlantic Bight. 

“I am excited to be working with NASA, doing research that will help advance our ability to determine where in the ocean is a source or sink of carbon,” said Lowin..."

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