The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.
NSF announcement: Cassar receives PECASE award “for developing a revolutionary method to measure marine nitrogen fixation on regional and global scales and robustly quantify nitrogen cycling between the ocean and the atmosphere, and for building partnerships with community science educators to foster climate change literacy”. See Duke announcement.
