Atmospheric science pioneer Dave Lowe

Dave Lowe taking an air flask sample at the edge of the Baring Head cliff in 1972.

Dave Lowe in 1973 at the DSIR Institute of Nuclear Sciences laboratories in Gracefield, Lower Hutt.

The first failed attempts to record atmospheric Co2 in New Zealand were made at Fort Opau

Dave Lowe, left, as a teenage surfboarder in Taranaki in the mid-1960s.

The Baring Head lighthouse and research station in 1972

The Baring Head station in 2018 Dave Allen NIWA