From the rolexawards.com:

The Laureates of the inaugural series of the Young Laureates Programme will be chosen in March 2010 by a panel of distinguished, highly talented individuals. The winners will be announced in April 2010.

Please visit the new Young Laureates programme website to meet the finalists in the inaugural series.

View the list of Jury members here.

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As part of Earthwatch Board of Directors, I visited the leatherback turtle and the sustainable coffee research projects in Costa Rica during January 2010. This group photo of the BOD is at the Golding Research Center where the turtle project is head-quartered. - Dr. Lowman

Photos from the Amazon Rainforest Workshop led by Meg Lowman on June 24 - July 2, 2008:

Professor Lowman and New college undergraduates studying herbivory and Ethnobotany in the forest canopy of the Amazon rain forests in Peru. Lowman’s field class tested a hypothesis that medicinal plants in this region would have lower herbivory levels than non-medicinal plants. Working with the local shaman, students measured 20 species for herbivory, and their hypothesis was based on the assumption that plants used for medicinal purposes may also contain a relatively high level of chemicals (which infer the medicinal properties). The results are still being analyzed, but students will take a poster to the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Milwaukee, WI.

Meg Lowman was the explorer chosen for a classroom assignment by 4th grade student, Colleen Schulken, at Webster Hill Elementary School in West Hartford, CT.

The assignment from the classroom teacher was to create a passport about an explorer.  The explorer could be of the student’s choosing.  Colleen wanted to explore a woman, who is currently exploring rainforest.  After a search on the internet they found Dr. Lowman.

Below are some scans of the passport from the class assignment:

Photos and Drawings from 2007 Sarasota Arts Festival… (more…)

Here are photos from the January 2008 Amazon trip. Student logs are available here.

Below are photos from the Meg Lowman Treetops Camp in Elmira New York. The camp earmarks young women who do not have extensive opportunity and inspires them to seek careers in field biology.

Explorers Club Annual Retreat to Iceland - June 2005. Photos are Copyrighted © 2005 Ragnar Th Sigurdsson. (more…)