In June 1992, Dr. Meg Lowman became the Director of Research and Conservation at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, an institution that specializes in tropical plants, especially epiphytes. She administers a department of taxonomists and ecologists, is overseeing a scientific journal, Selbyana, a herbarium and an active program of plant conservation and education. Her expertise is in canopy ecology, particularly herbivory and other plant-insect relationships. The title of her lecture is "Life in the Treetops: What is the Value of Biodiversity."