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

by Michael J. Lannoo

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609381211
• ISBN13: 9781609381219
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"