• Cover review on Sunday New York Times Book Review for Life in the Treetops, 1999
• Margaret Douglas Medal from National Garden Club of America for Conservation Education, 1999
• Williams College Bicentennial Medal for achievements in tropical botany, 2000
• Girls, Inc. Visionary Award for Public Science & Education Outreach, 2000
• American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) Award for Program Excellence in creating two canopy walkways, one at Selby Gardens with Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility, and one at Myakka State Park, 2001
• Ecological Society of America, Eugene Odum Prize for Excellence in Ecology Education, 2002
• Kilby Laureate Medalist for work as a rainforest canopy expert, 2002
• Asteroid (10739) Lowman named by Carolyn Shoemaker of the US Department of the Interior, 2003
• Woman in Power Award, National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), 2003
• Selected three times as Chief Scientist, The JASON Project in Science Education (2004, 1999, 1994 in Panama, Peru and Belize, respectively)
• Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, 2006
• Lifetime Achievement Award for Conservation from Sarasota County, 2006
• Mendel Medal for achievements in science and spirit

Books

• Lowman, M.D. 1974. Some Aspects of the Fabric of Life, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare 204 pp.
• Heatwole, H. & M.D. Lowman. 1986. Dieback: The Death of an Australian Landscape, Reed & Co. 150 pp.
• Lowman, M.D. (ed.) 1992. Ecology of Hopkins Forest. Williams College Printers. 100 pp.
• Lowman, M.D. and N.M. Nadkarni (eds.) 1995. Forest Canopies. Academic Press 624 pp. (Second Edition in paperback 1996)
• Lowman, M.D. 1999. Life in the Treetops. Yale University Press. (Editions in German, Chinese and Korean)
• Lowman, M.D. and H.B. Rinker, eds. 2004 Forest Canopies. Elsevier Press.(all peer-reviewed, with several chapters written by M.D. Lowman)
• Lowman, M.D., J. Burgess and E. Burgess. 2006 It’s a Jungle Out There — More Tales from the Treetops. Yale University Press.