Ecologist Margaret Lowman is a professor at North Carolina State and director of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. She will speak about initiatives to get students of all ages and all abilities involved in field research. The Meg Lowman Treetops Camp gives science education to at-risk teenage girls.This summer Lowman will be a mentor for students in wheelchairs studying forest canopies. Lowman has been sampling insects of small indigenous forests in Ethiopia in collaboration with Colby Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Travis Reynolds and Colby students.
