Editorial from newsobserver.com:
Perhaps it was only a matter of time until Meg Lowman left Raleigh for career advancement. Still, it’s hard to see the former director of the Nature Research Center, at the state Museum of Natural Sciences, depart for California.
Lowman, a biologist with a national reputation, carried good-naturedly the nickname “Canopy Meg” because she studied forest canopies on five continents in the course of her scientific research. The Nature Research Center, a $56 million complex, was her baby, and with its huge globe outside the museum in downtown Raleigh, it drew over a million visitors during its first year, making it the state’s most popular visitor destination.