SkIO Student Spotlight: Ben Lowin
Ben Lowin, a San Francisco Bay Area native who grew up in Switzerland, is a doctoral student focusing on remote sensing in Sara Rivero-Calle’s lab at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO). Lowin received his bachelor’s degree at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, where he majored in biology and biological oceanography. Lowin then went on to earn his master’s degree at the University of Southampton, in England, specializing in remote sensing of the marine environment. His work at SkIO involves researching the impacts of climate change on the South Atlantic Bight’s ecosystem, particularly using satellite data to estimate oceanic net community production (NCP).
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Educators from Johnson High School plan to use what they experienced on the R/V Savannah to mold future lessons and projects.
In late June, several dozen miles off the Southeast Georgia coast, a group of Sol C. Johnson High School (JHS) educators stood inside the R/V Savannah, looking over the shoulder of a University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) scientist, trying to help him spot various plankton in images quickly flashing across a computer screen.
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