Coming in July: Forest Canopies by Margaret D. Lowman and H. Bruce Rinker published by Elsevier Press, San Diego CA. This definitive textbook will provide summaries of all relevant topics on canopy biology, useful for college students, foresters, educators, conservationists, scientists in all disciplines of biology, and policy-makers. Some pre-announcements are listed below: US
Canopymeg attended the 100th anniversary banquet for the Explorers Club in New York City during spring 2004. Pictured here are the exotic ordeurves that included hissing cockroaches and tempura tarantula. Sir Edmund Hillary presented the keynote address, and all of the explorers shared stories of the last 100 years of achievement.
A group of twelve teachers, led by Professor Meg Lowman of New College department of Environmental Studies, visited the tropical rain forests of Panama during summer 2004. The teachers learned about tropical ecosystems, visited Panamanian schools, and brought school supplies to several schools in remote locations. During a ten-day adventure, they traipsed through pecker bushes, […]
Canopymeg worked on vines and pondered the question: “Are vines highways for herbivores?” in the rain forests of Panama. She also studied the links between the green food web (canopy) and the brown food web (forest floor) as part of the Jason education outreach broadcasts to over 2 million students.
They climbed trees and sucked bugs into tubes, then checked off items on a master list: lizards, snakes, wasps, mockingbirds and gopher tortoises. But students from New College of Florida in Sarasota weren’t catching bugs to kill them. Instead, about 50 students, friends and faculty members collected insects and counted types of mammals and plants […]
… Meg Lowman has received lots of comments about the recent 100th anniversary dinner of the Explorers Club at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC Meg hosted a table … Full Article
Video of blimp and canopy raft being used to access the rainforest canopy in French Guiana. [MEDIA=7]
Research on bromeliad tank ecosystems in Peru.
Meg Lowman on NPR’s Fresh Air (8/25/1990): [MEDIA=5]
