On WUNC 91.5 The State of Things radio show, host Frank Stasio talks to Meg Lowman about her life in the treetops and her work at the Nature Research Center. You can listen to (or download) the full program here: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/Canopy_Meg.mp3/view
Last year, CanopyMeg lectured to the architecture school in Barcelona. They all study trees as part of their architectural training, since Gaudi was inspired by trees for his famous architectural structures. Here is a video where the students have followed up by planting trees! Rolex fellow juror Vicente Guillarte is the director and professor of […]
Dr. Meg Lowman appeared on UNCTV’s NC Now program to talk about her work in treetop exploration. Duration: 07:28 Date: 01/11/2013
Coffee is migrating. As it’s getting hotter at lower altitudes, the lower plants are dying off, so it marches the coffee forest up the slopes. — Dean Cycon, owner of Dean’s Beans Coffee Co. Coffee, java, morning Joe, black wine, jolt juice, espresso, cappuccino … Whatever the name, coffee is synonymous with the American dream. […]
Science Cafe panel discussion on the top science stories of 2012 at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. On the panel: NASA/JPL ambassador Tony Rice (@rtphokie), WRAL-TV meterologist Nate Johnson (@nsj), Nature Research Center Director Meg Lowman (@canopymeg), NC State biology prof, author, writer Rob Dunn (@RobRDunn), and Curator of the Daily Planet Brian Malow (@sciencecomedian).
Everyone is buying it!! The new textbook in the Christmas stocking of Dean Jeff Braden, NSCU, and his wife Jill! Find out more and order your copy of “Methods in Forest Canopy Research”!
Great compilation of E.O. Wilson quotes by Virginia Greene:
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: The new Nature Research Center in downtown Raleigh is a world-first in many ways – cutting-edge scientists working in glass labs where the public can see their activities, unprecedented global outreach of science discoveries through the multi-media SECU Daily Planet theater, myriad citizen science participatory programs for […]
From the Spring 2012 issue of NC State Alumni Magazine: Meg Lowman plans to take thousands of schoolchildren into the Amazon to study the rain forest. She wants to take them to Ethiopia, where she works to preserve what remains of the rain forest there. She also wants them to work side-by-side with other scientists […]
Margaret Lowman, pioneer of canopy ecology science, will be video chatting with Equality Charter School middle school students on Friday, December 14th from 3:00pm-4pm. Equality Charter School has the honor of hosting Dr. Margaret Lowman, dubbed “Einstein of the trees” by the Wall Street Journal, for a video chat on Friday. Students currently taking Integrated […]
