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The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory : A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature /

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...

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Autor principal: Lannoo, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Spirit
  • Something Heavy 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 / 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
  • The Friends of Lakeside Lab / Jane Shuttleworth
  • A Regents Resource Center, 2007-Present
  • Resurrecting Natural History.