Excerpt from “The Excrement Experiment“: The inspiration for OpenBiome was a friend of Smith’s, an otherwise healthy man in his twenties who, in 2011, acquired
Come join us to learn about a different kind of bank. The world of stool banking, poop transplants, and the human microbiome. WHAT: TREE Foundation’s
In a Google Science Fair Hangout On Air conversation with editor-in-chief of Scientific American, Mariette DiChristina, Dr. Lowman discusses how she became fascinated with what
Join Untamed Science for their visual tour of CanopyMeg’s Amazon field research. The video team joined her July 2014 citizen science research expedition, so watch
In the San Francisco Business Times‘ May 2, 2014 issue, Dr. Meg Lowman made the list of the most Influential Women in Bay Area Business.
Most children have a bug period. — E.O. Wilson, Harvard entomologist and biodiversity expert I love insects, which is probably why I became a scientist
As a child, I loved the natural world. Maybe it had something to do with growing up in a small town in upstate New York where the distractions of big-city lights were absent. Maybe it was because nature had so many secrets and I was thrilled to be a detective, uncovering them one by one. My neighbor Betsy and I built a tree fort and created rooms walled by foliage. We collected wildflowers instead of Barbie dolls. We put band-aids on earthworms inadvertently chopped by our dads’ lawnmowers. We diligently rescued and cared for baby birds that had fallen from their nests. We called our fort “Hullabaloo,” alluding to the action-packed activities of our backyard world.
Life in the Treetops – Exploration of the World’s Canopies by Dr. “CanopyMeg” Lowman Chief of Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, USA www.canopymeg.com
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. — Rachel Carson When baby
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in huffingtonpost: When baby boomers think back to their childhoods, they can probably recall a treehouse, a Boy/Girl Scout
