February 16, 2006 (7:30 PM EST)

Special Community Lecture by Gary Braasch on February 16, 2006

On February 16, a special community lecture will be held featuring a world-renowned photographer and expert on climate change. Gary Braasch has made a life-time work of tracking climate change through photographs, with 30-year time frames of places like Mt. Kilamanjaro, the Arctic circle and glaciers in Iceland. Please save this date for a New College community event to be held at Sudakoff at 7:30. This event is sponsored by the TREE Foundation. Climate change is not just an issue reserved for science students, but one that involves all disciplines. All welcome. You can check Gary's web site: www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org

November 9, 2004 (4:30 PM EST)

Lynne Cherry to Visit New College of Florida

Lynne Cherry, acclaimed author and illustrator of numerous environmental books, will give a public lecture at New College on Tuesday, November 9th at 4:30 PM. The lecture will be held in Chae Auditorium in the Heiser Natural Science complex, and is sponsored by TREE Foundation. Lynne will on campus to provide advice and inspiration to the student group, Science Outreach for Schools (SOS), in Sarasota County. Under the guidance of Dr. Meg Lowman, Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, approximately eighteen New College environmental studies students are training to provide science programs to Sarasota middle school science students. Focusing in particular on Booker and Pine View Schools, the community service group has also visited many other schools during the past year.

Lynne’s lecture is open to families, teachers, and other students. She will speak about her continued environmental books and the importance of providing outreach to children. Her publications include The Great Kapok Tree, which has been translated into many languages, as well as Flute’s Journey, The Shaman’s Apprentice, and others. Her latest book, How Groundhog’s Garden Grew, advocates for children to get dirty and learn about how plants grow.

September 13-19, 2004

Lowman as keynote speaker at "Exploring Life on a Different Level -- Canopy Season At Eden, The Eden Project, Bodelva Cornwall United Kingdom

In collaboration with the Global Canopy Programme and Pro-Natura International working with The International Canopy Network (ICAN) and other groups, ‘Exploring Life on a Different Level’ at Eden will give the canopy scientific community an opportunity to connect their exciting world directly with the public and colleagues. This will be achieved through the display of the latest canopy research access methods, including a Tower Crane, IKOS, Canopy Bubble, Canopy Raft, Flybot, and Canopy Glider. ‘Exploring Life on a Different Level’ will include a rolling programme of events, stories from canopy scientists, debates and interactive projects to engage visitors to the Eden Project, and raise awareness about the science and biodiversity of forest canopies both locally, nationally and internationally.

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August 1-6, 2004

89th ESA Annual Meeting, Portland Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
Session entitled "Forest Canopies as Participants in Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology" - Wednesday afternoon (August 5). Speakers will include M. D. Lowman and H. Bruce Rinker.

Canopymeg attended the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. She presented an invited talk entitled "Herbivory in Forests - Use of long term data sets to quantify ecosystem process". She also co-authored two other talks. (See www.esa.org website for complete conference proceedings). At the ESA meeting, held in Portland Oregon, she also met with a large subsection of the canopy research consortium to plan upcoming expeditions and activities. An abbreviated version of her talk is available here.