On July 30, Meg Lowman was on The Leonard Lopate Show. Eight years after the publication of Life in the Treetops, globetrotting rainforest biologist and single mother Margaret Lowman is here in the urban jungle with her son and co-author Edward Burgess. They’ll share their new collection of stories filled with science and adventure from […]
Below are photos from the Meg Lowman Treetops Camp in Elmira New York. The camp earmarks young women who do not have extensive opportunity and inspires them to seek careers in field biology.
Meg mentioned in Wired News article: Will forests slow global warming – or speed it up? Everyone knows that forests are good for the environment. By removing carbon dioxide – the principal cause of global warming – from the air, trees grow. And the bigger and more plentiful the trees, the more CO2 they sequester. […]
Hike off holiday dinner and discover Florida’s forest canopy Looking for a way to lose those extra holiday pounds? Discover the wonders of Florida’s forest canopy at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 29, during a 90-minute nature walk with Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies Dr. Meg Lowman and her New College of Florida Conservation Biology […]
An interview with Meg Lowman is in the December issue of Smithsonian magazine: Margaret Lowman, of the New College of Florida, pioneered forest ecology by building the first canopy walkway in North America, in 1991. She recalls her adventures as a scientist and single parent in It’s a Jungle Up There. Why spend time in […]
91st ESA Annual Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee – August 6-11, 2006 The location of the 2006 ESA meeting is Memphis, Tennessee, the “Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “Home of the Blues”. In ecology, as in the music world, there are people whose ideas and work have become so widely accepted and established that they […]
The Association for Tropical Biology (ATB) Annual Meeting: The annual meeting in 2006 will be held, for the first time ever in China, from July 18-21, 2006. The theme of the meeting will be “Tropical Biology: meeting the needs of changing tropical ecosystems”. Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) […]
The Weather Breakers? A scientist from Down Under visits Florida We walk on earth, We look after, Like rainbow sitting on top. But something underneath, Under the ground. We don’t know. You don’t know. What do you want to do? If you touch, You might get cyclone, heavy rain or flood. Not just here, You […]
From the Star-Gazette: Elmira native Meg Lowman is a scientist, author, educator and internationally recognized rain forest researcher. She has globe-hopped from rain forests in Africa to Australia to Peru, specializing in the study of plant-insect relationships and the ecology of rain-forest canopies (life among the treetops). The Florida resident will return to her hometown […]
From the Earthwatch Institute: Raising Her Children in the Treetops, Meg Lowman Led Earthwatch Expeditions in the Rainforests of Australia Full Article
