Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: The time was 4:24 a.m. I sat upright in bed, awakened by an inspirational choir that just burst into sound. Vacationing in the woods of northern Vermont, I took a June sojourn back to my childhood forests of New England. Sleeping until noon is an obvious privilege […]
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Did you know that over 70 species of ants live in Raleigh? A survey of urban insects, recently conducted by the Museum of Natural Sciences and the biology department at N.C. State University, represents the first effort that engaged citizens to count the wealth of unknown critters […]
Dr. Lowman was a guest on WCOM’s Radio in Vivo on June 1, 2011. Discussion included the Nature Research Center, canopy science research and communicating science. You can also listen the the podcast using the player below: [media id=27 width=320 height=20]
From technicianonline.com: Learning the Ropes Specialists in forest canopy research and in tree climbing came together to pass on climbing tips. Meg Lowman, a scientist with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, first started her work in rain forest canopies in 1979 with a will to explore the heights of forest ecology and a […]
Student Jiri Hulcr was on NPR’s Living on Earth to talk about the Belly Button Biodiversity project. Listen and read at: http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=11-P13-00019&segmentID=7 You can also listen using the player below: [media id=26 width=320 height=20]
Below is an article written by Dr. Lowman in newsobserver.com: A biological inventory project, called the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), was recently launched to catalog information about Earth’s 1.8million scientific species classified during the past several centuries. Currently, information on some species is only available piecemeal in different museums, collections, websites or roughly scribbled in […]
From NewsObserver.com: Researchers in Raleigh want to know what creatures have made themselves at home in human bellybuttons. The team at N.C. State’s Belly Button Biodiversity project is finding that this often forgotten body part has a secret life of its own, holding worlds of bacteria and fungi that differ from person to person. Read […]
In late March and early April of 2011, an expedition team including NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, and University of Chicago found a gang of us exploring the northeastern coastline of South America — starting in Brazil and ending up in the Dutch Antilles. As I sampled herbivory in the canopy from point […]
Here is some updates on the progress going on to help save the Church Forests of Ethiopia. From De Alemayehu Wassie Eshete: 1. Zahara is in a good progress: they will finish the fence in two weeks. and they have started digging the hole for the latrine. I will send you photos. 2. This weekend […]
Below is an article written by Dr. Lowman in newsobserver.com: “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir Like a baby’s soft skin, the new foliage of spring is delicate and breathtaking as it unfolds to signify a rebirth of the natural world. A leaf lover for many decades, […]
