Jeremy A Vetter

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Chapters

• Vetter, J. A. (2012). Field Life in the American West: Surveys, Networks, Stations, and Quarries. Aarhus University Press.
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  ;Full Citation: “Field Life in the American West: Surveys, Networks, Stations, and Quarries,” in Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions, eds. Kristian Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier, and Christopher J. Ries (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012), 225-258.;
• Vetter, J. A. (2010). Introduction. Rutgers University Press.
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  http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/excerpt/Vetter_Introduction.pdf;Your Role: author;Full Citation: Introduction," in Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences, ed. Jeremy Vetter (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010), 1-16.;
• Vetter, J. A. (2010). Rocky Mountain High Science: Teaching, Research, and Nature at Field Stations. Rutgers University Press.
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  ;Your Role: author;Full Citation: Rocky Mountain High Science: Teaching, Research, and Nature at Field Stations," in Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences, ed. Jeremy Vetter (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010), 108-134.;

Journals/Publications

• Vetter, J. A. (2012). Labs in the Field? Rocky Mountain Biological Stations in the Early Twentieth Century. Journal of the History of Biology.
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  ;Full Citation: “Labs in the Field? Rocky Mountain Biological Stations in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the History of Biology 45 (2012): 587-611.;
• Vetter, J., & Vetter, J. A. (2012). Labs in the field? Rocky mountain biological stations in the early twentieth century. Journal of the history of biology, 45(4).
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  Biological field stations proliferated in the Rocky Mountains region of the western United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. This essay examines these Rocky Mountain field stations as hybrid lab-field sites from the perspective of the field side of the dichotomy: as field sites with raised walls rather than as laboratories whose walls with the natural world have been lowered. Not only were these field stations transformed to be more like laboratories, but they were also embedded within the particular regional environmental and institutional context of the Rocky Mountains. Using the University of Colorado's Mountain Laboratory at Tolland and other contemporaneous sites as examples, this essay analyzes key features of these sites, including their location within transportation networks, buildings, equipment, personnel, scheduling, recreational and social activities, and other material and social practices on the ground. Considering both the distinctive and shared characteristics of the Rocky Mountain field stations in comparison to other types of field stations provides a more complete picture of the diversity and range of lab-field hybrid sites in the biological sciences in the early twentieth-century United States.
• Vetter, J. A. (2011). Introduction: Lay Participation in the History of Scientific Observation.
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  http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0269889711000032;Your Role: Also served as guest editor for the entire topical issue on the theme outlined in this introductory essay.;Full Citation: “Introduction: Lay Participation in the History of Scientific Observation,” Science in Context 24 (2011): 127-141.;
• Vetter, J. A. (2011). Labs in the Field? Rocky Mountain Biological Stations in the Early Twentieth Century.
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  http://www.springerlink.com/content/u77q898u62h32043/fulltext.pdf;Full Citation: “Labs in the Field? Rocky Mountain Biological Stations in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the History of Biology (published on-line 20 August 2011; forthcoming in print).;Electronic: Yes;
• Vetter, J. A. (2011). Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather: The Field Network as a Mode of Knowledge Production. Science in Context.
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  http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0269889711000093;Full Citation: “Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather: The Field Network as a Mode of Knowledge Production,” Science in Context 24 (2011): 259-280.;
• Vetter, J., & Vetter, J. A. (2011). Introduction: lay participation in the history of scientific observation. Science in context, 24(2).
• Vetter, J. A. (2010). Capitalizing on Grass: The Science of Agrostology and the Sustainability of Ranching in the American West. Science as Culture.
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  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2010.519869;Your Role: author;Full Citation: Capitalizing on Grass: The Science of Agrostology and the Sustainability of Ranching in the American West," Science as Culture 19 (2010): 483-507.;
• Vetter, J. A. (2010). The Unmaking of an Anthropologist: Wallace Returns from the Field, 1862-70. Notes and Records of the Royal Society.
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  http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/64/1/25.abstract;Your Role: author;Full Citation: The Unmaking of an Anthropologist: Wallace Returns from the Field, 1862-70," Notes and Records of the Royal Society 64 (2010): 25-42.;

Presentations

• Vetter, J. A. (2012, 2012-03-01). Expertise, â€. American Society for Environmental History. Madison, Wis..
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• Vetter, J. A. (2012, 2012-06-01). The Two Faces of Early Agricultural Experiment Station Science. Agricultural History Society. Mahnattan, Kan..
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• Vetter, J. A. (2012, 2012-07-01). The Industrialization of Science in the Field: Transforming Practice and the Environmental Change in the American West, 1860-1920. Science, Space, and the Environment. London Science Museum, London, England.
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• Vetter, J. A. (2012, 2012-10-01). Session Commentary. Western History Association. Denver, Colo..
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• Vetter, J. A. (2012, 2012-10-01). The Making of the Great Plains: Science and the Economic Roots of a Region. Western History Association. Denver, Colo..
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• Vetter, J. A. (2011, 2011-09-01). Capitalist Nature: The Sciences of Development in the American West, 1860-1920. Laramie, Wyoming.
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  As a condition of holding the Majewski Fellowship for 2011, I delivered the "Majewski Lecture" for 2011 at the American Heritage Center, which is a public lecture connected with the history of economic geology.;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Vetter, J. A. (2010, 2010-11-01). Capitalist Nature: The Sciences of Development in the American West, 1860-1920. History of Science Society. Montreal, Quebec.
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Reviews

• Vetter, J. A. (2012. Comments by Jeremy Vetter, University of Arizona [roundtable review of Thomas R. Dunlap, In the Field, Among the Feathered: A History of Birders and their Guides].
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  ;Full Citation: H-Environment Roundtable (2012), no. 7, pp. 15-21, http://www.h-­â€;Electronic: Yes;
• Vetter, J. A. (2012. Measuring Longitude by Telegraphy [review of Richard Stachurski, Finding North America: Longitude by Wire].
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  ;Full Citation: Journal for the History of Astronomy 43 (2012): 123-125;
• Vetter, J. A. (2012. [double review of Paul Brinkman, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; and Lowell Dingus & Mark A. Norell, Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex].
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  ;Full Citation: Isis 102 (2011): 771-772;
• Vetter, J. A. (2012. [review of Albert G. Way, Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management].
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  ;Full Citation: Environmental History (2012): 881-883.;
• Vetter, J. A. (2012. [review of Edmund Russell, Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth].
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  ;Full Citation: Agricultural History 86 (2012): 103-105;
• Vetter, J. A. (2012. [review of Fritiof M. Fryxell, Ferdinand Hayden: A Young Scientist in the Great West, 1853-1855].
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  ;Full Citation: Earth Sciences History 31 (2012): 162-164;

Others

• Vetter, J. A. (2010). U.S. Army, Topographical Engineers.
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  ;Your Role: author;Full Citation: U.S. Army, Topographical Engineers," in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, ed. Kathleen Brosnan (Facts on File, 2010).;Type of Publication: encyclopedia article;
• Vetter, J. A. (2010). U.S. Geological Survey.
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  ;Your Role: author;Full Citation: U.S. Geological Survey," in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, ed. Kathleen Brosnan (Facts on File, 2010).;Type of Publication: encyclopedia article;