Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: As a nerdy scientist, I was never a Super Bowl fan. This year when Anquan Boldin – who shares my passion for building stone walls in Ethiopia – made the first touchdown of the winning Baltimore Ravens, I became one. Science and sports appear worlds apart, but […]
I can try to explain it to you, but unless you see it for yourself, you really can’t grasp the situation. They’re going through one of the worst droughts ever, it’s barely rained in three years. There is no water to grow vegetation, no water to drink. Everything is like desert. For people in the […]
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: What group of species is more common in North America than anywhere else? Freshwater mussels. But this unique group of organisms rarely reaches the headlines or even reaches the center of discussion in school biology classes. Even more amazing is the fact that, of the 297 species […]
On WUNC 91.5 The State of Things radio show, host Frank Stasio talks to Meg Lowman about her life in the treetops and her work at the Nature Research Center. You can listen to (or download) the full program here: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/Canopy_Meg.mp3/view
Last year, CanopyMeg lectured to the architecture school in Barcelona. They all study trees as part of their architectural training, since Gaudi was inspired by trees for his famous architectural structures. Here is a video where the students have followed up by planting trees! Rolex fellow juror Vicente Guillarte is the director and professor of […]
Dr. Meg Lowman appeared on UNCTV’s NC Now program to talk about her work in treetop exploration. Duration: 07:28 Date: 01/11/2013
Coffee is migrating. As it’s getting hotter at lower altitudes, the lower plants are dying off, so it marches the coffee forest up the slopes. — Dean Cycon, owner of Dean’s Beans Coffee Co. Coffee, java, morning Joe, black wine, jolt juice, espresso, cappuccino … Whatever the name, coffee is synonymous with the American dream. […]
Science Cafe panel discussion on the top science stories of 2012 at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. On the panel: NASA/JPL ambassador Tony Rice (@rtphokie), WRAL-TV meterologist Nate Johnson (@nsj), Nature Research Center Director Meg Lowman (@canopymeg), NC State biology prof, author, writer Rob Dunn (@RobRDunn), and Curator of the Daily Planet Brian Malow (@sciencecomedian).
Everyone is buying it!! The new textbook in the Christmas stocking of Dean Jeff Braden, NSCU, and his wife Jill! Find out more and order your copy of “Methods in Forest Canopy Research”!
Great compilation of E.O. Wilson quotes by Virginia Greene:
