Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Cutting-edge technology helps save rhinos in India The North Carolina Museum of Natural History’s new Nature Research Center, opening spring 2012 in Raleigh, will employ cutting-edge technologies to convey scientific discoveries to students, policy-makers and citizens. Using remote cameras in distant field sites such as forest canopies, […]
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Yttrium, promethium, europium and luterium may sound like mythological characters, but they’re rare-earth elements that comprise the backbone of new technologies for the 21st century. Their discovery in recent years has advanced the electronics industry. Yttrium, when alloyed with other elements, forms part of aircraft engines; promethium […]
From the Earthwatch Institute: A fierce supporter of ‘citizen science’, and the first scientist that Earthwatch supported in Australia, here Meg reflects on the rapidly accelerating rate of loss of species in the world, and the importance of enthusing and involving non-scientists in research and conservation efforts. Read the full article
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: The U.S. military is moving aggressively to reduce its energy “bootprint.” The Department of Defense is our country’s largest single consumer of energy, using more than 300,000 barrels of oil per day. With an armored Humvee averaging only 4 miles per gallon, and with a gallon of […]
Lowman and Dunn’s team of biodiversity students shared between NC State University and the NC Museum report amazing new findings on our bodies! View the story on io9.com.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
