There is one important difference between ecology and many other fascinating sciences and games: unsolved problems of chess, astronomy, or mathematics will not change if we ignore them. Our activity or lack of activity can alter the state of ecology. [Lawrence Slobodkin, 2003 in A Citizen’s Guide to Ecology] From November 29 to December 10, […]
From newsobserver.com: RALEIGH — When it opens in 2012, the Nature Research Center in downtown Raleigh will instantly become one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the state. . . . The center’s director, Meg Lowman, said Monday that the facility will be unique in the way it merges science and technology to the benefit […]
As part of the Alonso-Stepanova lab at NCSU, there is a website that includes experiments for elementary school kids: For many centuries, people have been fascinated with plants and wanted to learn more about them. People have been growing plants (mainly for food) for many thousands of years. Not only do plants give us food […]
Check out the video of Dr. Lowman and the other members of the jury of the Rolex Awards for the Young Laureates Programme: http://young.rolexawards.com/about/meet_the_jury
You may have noticed inconsistencies in the spelling of Ethiopian place names. Spelling is tricky with some Ethiopian names, because the locals use different spellings than what the English-speaking cartography world picks up. Alas, we used various spellings along the way, depending on whether we were working directly with our local partners or if we […]
On Tuesday, October 19th, BBC Radio 4 will include a segment about the Ethiopian Church Forests. For more information see the BBC Radio 4 website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vcp4c
In the September 2010 issue of Popular Science, Dr. Lowman’s Peruvian Amazon Field Course at New College (and field courses through the Nature Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences) was listed as one of the “30 Awesome College Labs“.
In 2008 a series of stakeholder interviews on sacred forests were carried out as a part of the Helsinki University’s Viikki Tropical Resources Institute’s (VITRI) research in collaboration with Ethiopian Wondo Genet College of Forestry. The purpose of the study was to explore the social aspects related to the remnant sacred forest patches in the […]
Neville Winchester provides us with a sample picture of one Berlese trap extraction taken from a Church Forest in Ethiopia (click for a larger image):
Photos from Ethiopia taken by Phil Harpootlian: [slideshow id=27]
