Meg Lowman Interview Questions and Answers

Almost 50 percent of life on earth is estimated to live in tree canopies, yet this was an unexplored region until about 25 years ago.

Much of my work has involved solving the challenge of just getting into the treetops: inventing gadgets, refining hot air balloon design, creating canopy walkways, working from cherry pickers and construction cranes.

Much of my work has involved solving the challenge of just getting into the treetops: inventing gadgets, refining hot air balloon design, creating canopy walkways, working from cherry pickers and construction cranes.

Lots of things stress forests. And with forests becoming warmer, drier, and more fragmented, insect outbreaks are predictably one of the first responses to climate change.

I was so shy that I did not even dare speak, due to the gender disparity, but it also made me determined to pursue what I loved.

What fascinates you the most about canopy ecology?

Until recently, when a few of us climbed into the canopy, no human being knew that half of the biodiversity on our terrestrial earth lived in the treetops.

Until recently, when a few of us climbed into the canopy, no human being knew that half of the biodiversity on our terrestrial earth lived in the treetops.

For centuries, foresters had assessed forests by looking at the very bottom of the tree.

It is almost as if we had been trying to gauge the health of people by just looking at someone’s big toe but ignoring the rest.