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The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory : a century of discovering the nature of nature / Michael J. Lannoo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lannoo, Michael J.
- Series:
- Bur Oak Book
- A Bur oak book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology--Research--Iowa--History.
- Ecology.
- Natural history--Research--Iowa--History.
- Natural history.
- Conservation biology--Research--Iowa--History.
- Conservation biology.
- Nature study--Iowa--History.
- Nature study.
- Naturalists--Iowa--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- Iowa Lakeside Laboratory--History.
- Iowa Lakeside Laboratory.
- Iowa Lakeside Laboratory--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Imagine a place dedicated to the long-term study of nature in nature, a permanent biological field station, a teaching and research laboratory that promotes complete immersion in the natural world. Lakeside Laboratory, founded on the shore of Lake Okoboji in northwestern Iowa in 1909, is just such a place. In this remarkable and insightful book, Michael Lannoo sets the story of Lakeside Lab within the larger story of the primacy of fieldwork, the emergence of conservation biology, and the ability of field stations to address such growing problems as pollution, disease, habitat loss,
- Contents:
- The Spirit
- Something in the Midwestern Air
- An Opportunity of Magnificent Possibilities
- A Brief History of Field Stations
- The Factors of Ecology Are All Here
- The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory as a Student Sees It, by Maud Brown, 1910
- The Victorians, 1909-1932
- Hard Times and Stone Labs, 1932-1947
- Classical State Universities Versus Land Grant Institutions
- A Regents Institution, 1947-2007
- Teaching Philosophy
- Leadership
- Habitat Restoration
- The Friends of Lakeside Lab, by Jane Shuttleworth
- A Regents Resource Center, 2007-Present
- Resurrecting Natural History
- Appendixes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60938-139-4
- OCLC:
- 812406859
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