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Author Lowman, Margaret, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  577.3 LOWMAN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY LOWMAN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  581.7092 LOWMAN    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B LOWMAN M.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  581.7 LOW    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  577.3 LOWMAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B LOWMAN, MARGARET    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  581.7092 LOW    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  577.3 LOW    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  577.3 LOWMAN    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xi, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Foreword / by Sylvia A. Earle -- Ten tips of field biology for every aspiring arbornaut -- Prologue: How to see the whole tree (and what that means for the forest) -- From wildflower to wallflower : a girl naturalist in rural America -- Becoming a forest detective : first encounters 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 Malaysia'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 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.
Subject Lowman, Margaret.
Plant ecologists -- United States -- Biography.
Botanists -- United States -- Biography.
Women botanists -- United States -- Biography.
Rain forest ecology -- Research.
Forest canopy ecology -- Research.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
Lowman, Margaret. (OCoLC)fst00193028
Botanists. (OCoLC)fst00836862
Forest canopy ecology -- Research. (OCoLC)fst00932067
Plant ecologists. (OCoLC)fst01065414
Rain forest ecology -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01089450
Women botanists. (OCoLC)fst01177368
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiography.
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Added Title Life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us
Arbornaut : a life discovering the 8th continent in the trees above us
Life discovering the 8th continent in the trees above us
ISBN 9780374162696 (hardcover)
0374162697 (hardcover)
Standard No. 40030709530
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