A Debt to the Future: Achievement of the Desert Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona
| dc.contributor.author | Bowers, Janice E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-10T18:28:07Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-06-10T18:28:07Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0734-3434 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556672 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In 1903 the Carnegie Institution of Washington established a Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona. For the next thirty-seven years the Desert Laboratory was the site of pioneering research into the biology and ecology of desert Plants and animals. More than sixty scientists who worked on Tumamoc Hill published some 350 papers and books based on research there. William A. Cannon and Volney M. Spalding share credit for successfully launching the new facility. Daniel T. MacDougal, who became the first director in 1906, hired an enthusiastic, able staff and recruited many visiting scientists. His untiring promotional efforts gave the laboratory a national reputation, and when he transferred his research projects to a second laboratory at Carmel, California, the Desert Laboratory entered a nine year decline. Promotion of Forrest Shreve to head the laboratory in 1928 brought about a renewed focus on the ecology of desert plants. The Carnegie Institution closed the facility in 1940, ostensibly because of the depression and consequent financial cutbacks, but actually because institution administrators no longer found it worthwhile to support descriptive ecological research. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright © Arizona Board of Regents. The University of Arizona. | en_US |
| dc.source | CALS Publications Archive. The University of Arizona. | en_US |
| dc.title | A Debt to the Future: Achievement of the Desert Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.contributor.department | US Geological Survey | en |
| dc.identifier.journal | Desert Plants | en |
| dc.description.collectioninformation | Desert Plants is published by The University of Arizona for the Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum. For more information about this unique botanical journal, please email the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Publications Office at pubs@cals.arizona.edu. | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-07-15T04:14:41Z | |
| html.description.abstract | In 1903 the Carnegie Institution of Washington established a Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona. For the next thirty-seven years the Desert Laboratory was the site of pioneering research into the biology and ecology of desert Plants and animals. More than sixty scientists who worked on Tumamoc Hill published some 350 papers and books based on research there. William A. Cannon and Volney M. Spalding share credit for successfully launching the new facility. Daniel T. MacDougal, who became the first director in 1906, hired an enthusiastic, able staff and recruited many visiting scientists. His untiring promotional efforts gave the laboratory a national reputation, and when he transferred his research projects to a second laboratory at Carmel, California, the Desert Laboratory entered a nine year decline. Promotion of Forrest Shreve to head the laboratory in 1928 brought about a renewed focus on the ecology of desert plants. The Carnegie Institution closed the facility in 1940, ostensibly because of the depression and consequent financial cutbacks, but actually because institution administrators no longer found it worthwhile to support descriptive ecological research. |
