Larson
honored for Crater Lake work
Herald and News
Klamath Falls, Oregon
August 18, 2002
Douglas Larson of Portland was awarded the Centennial Award for
Excellence in Scientific Research at Crater Lake during
ceremonies at Crater Lake National Park last Sunday.
Larson is the lake's most published limnological investigator.
He first became interested in the lake's limnology of the lake
while he was a student at Oregon State University in 1967.
Most of his publications stem from the time he donated his time
as a limnological researcher during the mid-1970s and through
the 1980s, when he was a "Volunteer in the Park."
Larson's work and findings, along with the work of other
investigators, are included in the Oregon Historical Quarterly
and the American Scientist.
Institute members said the park's existing limnological research
program "owes its origin to the publications and concerns
expressed by Larson regarding the possibility that anthropogenic
activity was increasing the biological productivity of the lake,
thus affecting a reduction of lake transparency."
Those concerns eventually led to the renovation of Rim Village
waste water disposal system in the early 1990's.
Crater Lake is among the clearest bodies of water in the world.
The Crater Lake Institute, a private non-profit institute, is
also establishing the Douglas W. Larson Limnological Research
Scholarship Fund, which will be supported from donations from
individuals and organizations interested in furthering
independent scientific research on Crater Lake's limnology.
