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. […]
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 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
From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune: When scientist Meg Lowman assigned her young sons the task of keeping personal journals of their time in the rain forests, little did she know that she was planting the seeds for a future book project. Full Article
From the NJ Times: Since they were too small to remember, Edward and James Burgess have been exploring life in the treetops with their mother, Margaret D. Lowman, director of environmental initiatives and professor of biology and environmental studies at New College of Florida in Sarasota. Full Article Also check out this article: Attitude is […]
From the Miami Herald: As a young single mother working to support her children and a scientist struggling to pioneer the new field of canopy biology, Lowman often had to take her kids to work. Work wasn’t just in the office, but in the canopies of tropical trees scattered from Australia to Samoa, from Africa […]
Eighteen environmental researchers have been awarded Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowships for 2006. Fellows receive intensive communication and leadership training to help them deliver scientific information more effectively to policymakers, the media, business leaders and the public. Full Article
