What I've made

Works

Videos and books — the things I've made. For what other people have said about me, that's Press.

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Video

Talks, interviews, and a few things other people have made about the climbing itself, grouped the way the channel groups them. The channel has everything else.

Girls & Women in Science

Big Dreams Bloom During Meg Lowman's Rain Forest Talk to Girls Across U.S.

2021
Arbornaut (Climb Trees!) — by Hila The Killa (for CanopyMeg)

2021

Educator & Mentor

Meg Lowman Receives the Explorers Club Medal

2023
"The Leaf Detective" Virtual Book Launch

2021

Speaker

Meg Lowman Speaks at Nat Geo Explorers Festival 2022

2022
Virtual Closer Look with Dr. Meg Lowman: The Arbornaut, Mission Green, & Church Forests of Ethiopia

2022

Colleges & Universities

Life in the Treetops: Exploration of Tropical Rain Forest Canopies

2021

Educational Presentations

CanopyMeg Zoom Session with 5th Grade Students, Gloversville NY

2021

Interviews

Tällberg Podcast — Interview with Dr. Margaret Lowman

2024

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On the shelf

Sixteen books, and counting.

I have written for every reader I have ever met in the field: scientists who need the methods, adults who want the story, and children who want to know what is up there. These are the ones with covers you can hold.

CanopyMeg Chronicles 2 — What Next?

2025 · In press

With Yaroslava Yashchuk. From Australia to Africa.
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Tree Day

2025 · University of Chicago Press

24 hours and 24 arboreal lives. Endorsed by Jane Goodall.
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The Adventures of an Arbornaut

2026 · Young readers edition

Selected by the Junior Library Guild, 2026.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon
CanopyMeg Chronicles

2023 · Peppertree Press

With Yaroslava Yashchuk.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon
The Arbornaut

2021 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A memoir. Paperback, large-print, German, UK and Australian editions, 2022.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
La Arbonauta

2025 · Galaxia Gutenberg

The Arbornaut in Spanish, published in Barcelona.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
Muddy Boots

2017 · Peppertree Press

Essays of a field biologist.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon
Through the Year with Gertrude Grosbeak

2016 · Peppertree Press

A children’s book, written and illustrated by Meg.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon
Beza — Who Saved the Forests of Ethiopia, One Church at a Time

2014 · Peppertree Press

With Wondu Mulat. Published in English and Amharic.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon
Life in the Treetops

1999 · Yale University Press

Adventures of a woman in field biology. Cover review, New York Times Book Review.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
Die Frau in den Bäumen

1999 · Kunstmann

Life in the Treetops in German.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon
Der unentdeckte Kontinent

2021 · Blessing Verlag

The Arbornaut in German.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
A nyolcadik kontinens

2021 · Park Könyvkiadó

The Arbornaut in Hungarian.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon
It’s a Jungle Up There

2006 · Yale University Press

More tales from the treetops. With Edward Burgess and James Burgess. Reprinted in Korean.
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Treetops at Risk

2013 · Springer

Challenges of global canopy ecology and conservation. Edited with Soubadra Devy and T. Ganesh.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
Methods in Forest Canopy Research

2012 · University of California Press

With Timothy D. Schowalter and Jerry F. Franklin.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
Forest Canopies

2004 · Elsevier / Academic Press

Second edition. Edited with H. Bruce Rinker.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
Forest Canopies

1995 · Academic Press

First edition. Edited with Nalini M. Nadkarni.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon
Dieback: Death of an Australian Landscape

1986 · Reed & Co

With Harold Heatwole.
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And three written about me

The Leaf Detective

2021 · Calkins Creek

By Heather Lang, illustrated by Jana Christy. How scientist Meg Lowman explored and protected the treetops.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
What's in Your Pocket?

2021 · Charlesbridge

By Heather L. Montgomery, illustrated by Maribel Lechuga. Meg is one of the collectors it follows.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon Publisher page
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World

1997 · Harcourt Brace

By Kathryn Lasky, photographs by Christopher G. Knight. Written about Meg’s canopy work.
Where to buy → Also at Amazon

“The Arbornaut is the story of a shy little girl who loved to play outdoors and later, as a scientist, revealed to us the marvelous life teeming in the treetops.”
Temple Grandin

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