Meg Lowman Praises Voiijer Platform in Forbes
Do you Voiijer? Learn why CanopyMeg, quoted in the Forbes article below, says this new platform “eliminates the elitism of scientific publications and, best of all, makes STEM more fun!” Read more here.
Scottish Sculptress Uses Rocks to Illustrate Deep Time
Scottish artist and sculptress Angela Palmer, based in London, thrills the imagination with history, geology, mapping, sculpture, and masterful storytelling. Watch this video to light up your brain, heart, and soul. Deep Time: Uncovering our Hidden Past – Angela Palmer from Novella on Vimeo.
Meg Lowman Joins Board of LEAP Spiral
Early this year, TREE Foundation Executive Director Meg Lowman was named to the board of Land Empowerment Animals People (LEAP) Spiral, an organization dedicated to conservation and restoration of the forests and residing wildlife of Sabah, a region of the Malaysian Borneo. Since its establishment in 2004, LEAP has successfully established partnerships between small-scale community […]
The Arbornaut Korean Translation!
Woo Jong Young, author of I Want to Live Like a Tree, has created a Korean translation of Meg Lowman’s novel, The Arbornaut! Check out the jacket here:
Meg Lowman Highlighted in Chinese Publication!
A recent article in “China Dialogue,” a Chinese publication educating the public on China’s environmental issues, highlighted Meg Lowman’s career success researching and protecting forest canopies. In the piece, Meg explains the purpose of Mission Green and the multifold benefits of conserving our forests. “We need to have the big trees most of all, and […]
Meg Lowman shared in German magazine!
Meg Lowman was recently interviewed about her canopy exploration for a German magazine. Check it out below!
The Arbornaut Makes Phi Beta Kappa Shortlist!
Last month, Meg Lowman’s The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us made the shortlist for the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science! The Phi Beta Kappa Science Award recognizes exceptional scientific books that are both educational and accessible to a wide audience. To read more about the award and recognition of The Arbornaut, […]
Canopy Meg Discusses Canopy Life in Atlas Obscura
Writer Ella Morton interviewed Meg Lowman for this April 18, 2022 article in Atlas Obscura about the fascinating species and life at the canopy layer of trees.
Ginger Zee Visits Myakka Canopy Walkway
Meg Lowman met up with ABC News’ Ginger Zee in Sarasota’s gorgeous Myakka River State Park – Sarasota, Florida Canopy
Saving Big Forests to Save Our Big Planet
Dr. Margaret Lowman, Executive Director of the TREE Foundation, will join John W. Reid, co-author of Ever Green, in a
Meg Lowman talks The Arbornaut on WUSF 89.7 Public Media
On August 13, 2021 Meg Lowman spoke with WUSF’s Cathy Carter her new book The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the
Meg Lowman at Sarasota County’s UPCOMING 16th Annual Sustainable Communities Workshop
Under the theme “Roots of Sustainability,” the virtual conference will bring together residents, students and community members of all ages,
Meg Lowman’s Virtual Book Launch and Q&A
On August 10,2021 Meg Lowman’s memoir The Arbornaut: A life discovering the eight continent in the trees above was published. The Sarasota
Meg Lowman on Australia’s Giant Stinging Tree
On August 10, 2021 Meg Lowman took to Literary Hub to write a story about when she encountered one of
The Arbornaut in The Globe and Mail
On July 30, 2021, Meg Lowman’s memoir The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us being deemed as one of the top four books on protecting trees as a matter of not only our survival, but the survival of the planet by The Globe and Mail. Read the article here. […]
Earth Day Event Hot Girls Know Science Technology Engineering and Math
What do Hot Girls Know? Well, they know a LOT about science, technology, engineering and math — and they’ve invited
CanopyMeg Gets a New Look
TREE Foundation executive director Dr. Margaret Lowman, known around the globe as CanopyMeg, is celebrating Earth Day with some exciting
Saxophonist Nick Roth Unites Music and Science
Nick Roth Music Saxophonist, composer, producer and educator Nick Roth, has created an outstanding dendro-chronographic film — “Crann” — which explores the world of the tree in literature. The film premiered in late December 2020 and is a perfect union of music and science! “I was lucky enough to grow up with old growth forest […]
Canopy Walkways of the World Map
Scientists estimate that forest canopies are home to 50% of our land-based biodiversity, yet less than 10% of those species remain undiscovered. Canopy walkways offer a unique, education and inspirational means to explore the treetops, and walkways also provide economic incentives for indigenous people to conserve their forests for ecotourism instead of logging. MISSION GREEN […]
Some trees may ‘social distance’ to avoid disease
From NationalGeographic.com: In some ways, crown shyness is the arboreal version of social distancing, says Meg Lowman, a forest canopy biologist and director of the TREE Foundation. “The minute you start keeping plants from physically touching each other, you can increase productivity,” she says. “That’s the beauty of isolation … The tree is really safeguarding […]
Publications
Margaret Lowman Catalog of Publications
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Books
- Lowman MD and Yaroslava Yashchuk, 2025. CanopyMeg Chronicles 2 – What Next? In press.
- Lowman MD. Tree Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Arboreal Lives. University of Chicago Press, August 2025.
- Lowman MD and Yaroslava Yashchuk. 2023. CanopyMeg Chronicles – Peppertree Press.
- Lowman MD. The Arbornaut. A memoir. Farrer, Strauss & Giroux, August 2021.
- Frost C and M Lowman. In prep. Forest Canopies – third edition. Springer/Elsevier.
- Lowman MD, S Azizah Mohd Nor, N Ruppert (editors). In press. Biodiversity Survey on Penang Hill, Malaysia. USM Publishers.
- Lowman MD. 2017. Muddy Boots – essays of a field biologist. Peppertree Press, 148 pp.
- Lowman MD. 2016. Through the Year with Gertrude Grosbeak. Peppertree Press, children’s book.
- Lowman, M.D. and W Mulat. 2014. Beza – Who Saved the Forests of Ethiopia, One Church at a Time. Peppertree Press (children’s book), both English and Amharic versions.
- Lowman, M.D., S. Devy, and T. Ganesh. 2013. Treetops at Risk. (Springer Verlag).
- Lowman, M.D., Schowalter T., & Franklin J. 2012. Methods in Forest Canopy Research (University of California Press).
- Lowman, M.D., J. Burgess and E. Burgess. 2006 It’s a Jungle Out There – More Tales from the Treetops. Yale University Press. 291 pp. (Paperback, 2008; reprinted in Korean, 2009).
- Lowman M.D. and H.B. Rinker. 2004 Forest Canopies. Elsevier Press.
- Lowman, M.D. 1999. Life in the Treetops. Yale University Press. (Editions in German, Chinese and Korean; paperback version in 2002)
- Lowman, M.D. and N.M. Nadkarni (eds.) 1995. Forest Canopies. Academic Press 624 pp. (Second Edition in paperback 1996)
- Lowman, M.D. (ed.) 1992. Ecology of Hopkins Forest. Williams College Printers. 100 pp
- Heatwole, H. & M.D. Lowman. 1986. Dieback: The Death of an Australian Landscape, Reed & Co. 150 pp.
- Lowman, M.D. 1974. Some Aspects of the Fabric of Life, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare 204 pp.
National Leadership Reports
- Lowman MD. 2024. Mission Green – a prospectus.
- Meg Lowman, signatory to, The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory
- Aldo Leopold Leadership Program. 2019. Environmental leadership case studies. Chapter on Ethiopian church forests and bottom-up conservation.
- Lowman, M.D. 2012. Health and environment – kids and treehouses. http://www.epa.gov, blog from Women and Environment White House summit.
- NEON Tiger Team. 2008. Education Plan. http://www.neoninc.org/documents/tigerteam
- Sarasota County Environmental Initiatives, FL (2004 – 2009) series of quarterly reports over 5 years to document environmental programs: invasive reptiles, science education outreach, development of Land Institute, conservation action plans, and other activities.
- NEON ISEP. 2006. National Ecological Observatory Network, Integrated Science and Education Plan. National NEON Design Committee, M.D. Lowman – co-chair education group, contributed to ISEP plan and writing.
- Lowman, M.D. 1974. Some Aspects of the Fabric of Life, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare 204 pp.
Theses
- Lowman, M.D. 1982. Leaf Growth Dynamics and Herbivory in Australian Rain Forest Canopies. Ph.D. Thesis. Sydney University (Supervisor: Peter Myerscough).
- Lowman, M.D. 1978. Phenology and Productivity of Betula pendula and B. pubescens in Scotland. Master’s Thesis. Aberdeen University (Supervisor: Peter Ashton).
- Lowman, M.D. 1976. Phenological Phenomena and Growth Studies for 16 Northern Hardwoods. Honors Thesis. Williams College (Supervisor: Henry Art).
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed except those with *)
- K.M. Klemow, A.R. Berkowitz, C.R. Cid, T.A. Langen, M.D. Lowman, G. Middendorf, J.A. Reynolds. 2026. A Century of Learning: The Story of ESA’s Education Committee, 1918–2025. The Ecological Society of America (ESA) Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70089
- Moore, A., W.R. Miller & M.D. Lowman, Subm. Tardigrades of the Canopy: Milnesium martafischeri nov sp. (Eutardigrada: Apochela: Milneslidae) from Oregon, USA
- Caviglia-Harris, J., K. E. Hodges, B. Helmuth, E. M. Bennett, K. Galvin, M. Krebs, K. Lips, M. Lowman, L. A. Schulte, and E. A. G. Schuur. 2021. The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader. Ecology and Society 26(3):9.
- WR Miller, H Cotten, SAM Nor, MD Lowman. 2021. Tardigrades of Malaysia: New records of occurrence from Penang Hill. In: Kansas Biology Transactions.
- S Saatchi, M Longo, L Xu, Y Yang, H Abe, MD Lowman (2021). Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors. Science Direct. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.06.002
- Caviglia-Harris, J., K. E. Hodges, B. Helmuth, E. M. Bennett, K. Galvin, M. Krebs, K. Lips, M. Lowman, L. A. Schulte, and E. A. G.
Schuur. 2021. The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an
academic leader. Ecology and Society 26(3):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12396-260309 - Charles H. Cannon1, Colby Borchetta1, David L. Anderson, Gabriel Arellano, Martin Barker, Guillaume Charron, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Jeannine H. Richards, Ethan Abercrombie, Lindsay F. Banin, Ximena Tagle Casapia, Xi Chen, Polina Degtjarenko, Jane E. Dell, David Durden, Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino, Rebeca Hernández-Gutiérrez, Andrew D. Hirons, Chai-Shian Kua, Hughes La Vigne, Maurice Leponce, Jun Ying Lim, Margaret Lowman, Andrew J. Marshall, Sean T. Michaletz, Benjamin B. Normark, Darin S. Penneys, Gerald F. Schneider, Joeri S. Strijk, Bashir B. Tiamiyu, Tara L. E. Trammell, Yalma L. Vargas-Rodriguez, Samantha R. Weintraub-Leff, Alexis Lussier Desbiens and Matthew Spenko. (2021). Extending Our Scientific Reach in Arboreal Ecosystems for Research and Management
- WR Miller, H Cotten, SAM Nor, MD Lowman. July 2021. TARDIGRADES OF MALAYSIA: NEW RECORDS OF OCCURRENCE FROM PENANG HILL.
- Moore A, MD West, L Tibbs, WR Miller, C Johansson, MD Lowman. Submitted. July 2021. Tardigrades of the canopy: a new genus for Acanthechiniscus goedeni (Heterotardigrada: Eschiniscoidea: Echiniscidae) from Oregon USA. Zootaxa. (first authors were undergraduate students)
- *MD Lowman, Leon Kagonovskiy, and Caroline Haley. (2020). Herbivory in the Malaysia Rain Forest Canopy, Penang Hill
- Wayne P. Sousa, Kyle E. Harms, Claudia M. Tyler, Margaret D. Lowman, Michael J. Keough, Peter T. Green, Allan Stewart-Oaten (2021). Resolution of Respect Joseph Hurd Connell (1923-2020). The Ecological Society of America (ESA) Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1846
- *Lowman MD. David K. Goodin, Alemayehu Wassie. (2019). The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Forests and Economic Development. The Case of Traditional Ecological Management.
- *Lowman M. (2019). Life in the treetops—An overview of forest canopy science and its future directions. Plants, People, Planet. 2020;00:1–6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10125
- *Lowman MD. (2019). Life in the Treetops – A Planetary Biodiversity Hotspot
- Lowman M., Ruppert N, Mohd Nor SA. Further advancing the expert bioblitz for the rainforest conservation toolkit. Conservation
Science and Practice. 2019;1:e2. - Prashanth Ballullaya U, Manoj Kandoth, Rajesh TP, KS Reshmi, MD Lowman. 2019. Stakeholder motivation for the conservation of sacred groves in south India: an analysis of environmental perceptions of rural and urban neighborhood communities. Land Use Policy (in press). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104213
- Qing Pei, Guodong Li, BP Winterhalder, MD Lowman. 2019. Regional patterns of pastoralist migrations under the push of reduced precipitation in imperial China. Global Ecology and Biogeography 00:1-11. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13040. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13040
- Lowman MD. 2019. Methoden der baumkronen-forschung im wald. IN: Jahrbuch der Baumpflege (Yearbook of Arboriculture) 2019. (Ed D. Dujeseifken). Haymarket Media. Pp. 111-121.
- WR Miller, H Cotton, SA Kimball, MD Lowman. 2019. Tardigrades in the canopy: from outreach to classroom to science. (In press).
- Waymire A, M DuBuc, WR Miller, MD Lowman. 2019. Tardigrades in the canopy: an analysis of arboreal habitats. (In press).
- David K. Goodin, Alemayehu Wassie, M.D. Lowman (2019) The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Forests and Economic Development: The Case for Traditional Ecological Management, Journal of Religion & Society, 21: 1-23
- Lowman MD, L Nkaganovsky, C Haley. 2019. Herbivory in the Malaysian rain forest canopy, Penang Hill. IN: The Biodiversity of a Malaysian Rain Forest, Penang Hill. Malaysian Forestry Service Publications.
- Lowman MD, S Azizah Mohd Nor, N Ruppert. 2018. Advancing the rain forest conservation toolkit – a new model for biodiversity surveys. Conservation Biology and Practice (online). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.2
- Lowman MD.2018. Earth system environmental literacy. IN: Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer Scienc