The arbornaut a life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us
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...
| Main Author: | Lowman, Margaret (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.