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The arbornaut : a life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us / Meg Lowman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0374162697
  • 9780374162696
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QK31.L69 A3 2021
Contents:
Foreword / by Sylvia A. Earle -- Ten tips of field biology for every aspiring astronaut -- Prologue: How to see the world tree (and what that means for the forest -- From wildflower to wallflower : a girl naturalist in rural America -- Becoming a forest detective : first encounter with temperate trees from New England to Scotland -- One hundred feet in the air : finding a way to study leaves in the Australian rain forests -- Who ate my leaves? : tracking -- and discovering! -- Australian insects -- Dieback in the outback : juggling marriage and investigations of gum tree death in Australia's sheep country -- Hitting the glass canopy : how Strangler figs and Tall poppies taught me to survive as a woman in science -- Arbornauts for a week : citizen scientists explore the Amazon jungles -- Tiger tracks, tree leopards, and Vedippala fruits : exporting my toolkit to train arbornauts in India -- A treetop bioblitz : counting 1,659 species in Malysia's tropical forests in ten days -- Building trust between priests and arbornauts : saving the forests of Ethiopia, one church at a time -- Classrooms in the sky -- for everyone! : wheelchairs and water bears in the treetops -- Can we save our last, best forests? : promoting conservation through Mission Green.
Summary: "Biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman-aka "Canopy Meg"-takes us on an adventure into the "eighth continent" of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action"--Summary: As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Lowman sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees., in order to be a better monitor. Over the years she planned one of the first treetop walkways, and helped create more of these bridges through the eighth continent all over the world. Here she launches us into the life and work of an ecologist and conservationist, and offers hope, specific plans, and recommendations for actions that will make an immediate and lasting impact against climate change. -- adapted from jacket
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB455.5 .L69 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800183055
Total holds: 0

Includes index.

Foreword / by Sylvia A. Earle -- Ten tips of field biology for every aspiring astronaut -- Prologue: How to see the world tree (and what that means for the forest -- From wildflower to wallflower : a girl naturalist in rural America -- Becoming a forest detective : first encounter with temperate trees from New England to Scotland -- One hundred feet in the air : finding a way to study leaves in the Australian rain forests -- Who ate my leaves? : tracking -- and discovering! -- Australian insects -- Dieback in the outback : juggling marriage and investigations of gum tree death in Australia's sheep country -- Hitting the glass canopy : how Strangler figs and Tall poppies taught me to survive as a woman in science -- Arbornauts for a week : citizen scientists explore the Amazon jungles -- Tiger tracks, tree leopards, and Vedippala fruits : exporting my toolkit to train arbornauts in India -- A treetop bioblitz : counting 1,659 species in Malysia's tropical forests in ten days -- Building trust between priests and arbornauts : saving the forests of Ethiopia, one church at a time -- Classrooms in the sky -- for everyone! : wheelchairs and water bears in the treetops -- Can we save our last, best forests? : promoting conservation through Mission Green.

"Biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman-aka "Canopy Meg"-takes us on an adventure into the "eighth continent" of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action"--

As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Lowman sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees., in order to be a better monitor. Over the years she planned one of the first treetop walkways, and helped create more of these bridges through the eighth continent all over the world. Here she launches us into the life and work of an ecologist and conservationist, and offers hope, specific plans, and recommendations for actions that will make an immediate and lasting impact against climate change. -- adapted from jacket

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