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Arthur Davis Hasler
Arthur Davis Hasler
Pages 170-183
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Hasler was born in Lehi, Utah, the second of four sons of Mormon parents, Walter Thalmann HasTer, a physician, en cl Acia Broomheacl Hasler. His Mormon background playocl a significant en cl important role throughout his life, particularly regarding his active role in public service.
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Hanna cliecl in ~ 969. In ~ 971 Hasler married Hatheway Minton Brooks, who sharer!
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In 1963 he became director of the Laboratory for Limnology coincident with the construction of a new and proper Limnological Laboratory on the shoreline of Lake Menclota. He fought aggressively and successfully with the faculty and administration of the university against the construction of a 600-car parking lot on the site en cl extending into Lake Menclota.
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possibly most significantly, the Citizen of the Year Awarcl from the Menclota-Monona Lake Property Owners Association in ~ 987. An important measure of his influence in professional biology was his service as president of the American Society of Limnology en cl Oceanography (in 1951)
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to two small lakes in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, en cl resultecl in remarkable alkalinization en cl increased transparency of the water ~ ~ 95 ~ ~ . The stage was set for a rigorous whole-lake experimental manipulation, so he founcl two lakes on the northern Wisconsin-Michigan border, locatecl on property of the University of Notre Dame, that were connecter!
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HasTer, 1960~. Other lakes were artificially circulatecl using compressed air to recluce ice cover en cl prevent winterkill of fish, experimentally manipulated with additions of hydrogen peroxide to re cluce color, manipulate cl by aciclition s of hydrate cl NH4 through rather primitive aeration systems on the bottom of lakes to increase productivity, en c!
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He insisted that graduate students in residence meet with en cl discuss their research with each visiting scientist. Because of the international stature of his program, there was a constant flow of visitors to the Lake Lab.
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His early classic paper on "cultural eutrophication" (1947) helpecl to guicle efforts regarding sewage diversion, fertilizer en cl manure runoff, en c!
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179 I AM PLEASED to acknowledge Hatheway Hasler, Linda Holthaus, John Magnuson, and William Schmitz for details and suggestions; autobiographical materials from the National Academy of Sciences and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; various Limnology News newsletters from the Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and "Resolution of Respect" in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, July 2001 (S. Carpenter and T
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Detection and discrimination of odors of aquatic plants by the bluntnose minnow (Hyborhynchus notatus)
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Fish Res. Board Canad.
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Migratory movements of adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in coastal British Columbia as revealed by ultrasonic tracking.
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