Edmund C. Jaeger
| Edmund C. Jaeger | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 28, 1887 Loup City, Nebraska |
| Died | August 2, 1983 (aged 96) Riverside, California |
| Resting place | Edmund Jaeger Nature Sanctuary Chuckwalla Mountains (ashes scattered) 33°41′13″N 115°26′39″W / 33.68696°N 115.44415°W |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Biology |
| Institutions | Riverside City College Riverside Municipal Museum |
| Alma mater | Occidental College |
| Known for | Hibernation of common poorwill |
| Influences |
Lawrence Bruner J. Smeaton Chase T. D. A. Cockerell Carl Eytel John H. Kellogg Marcus E. Jones David S. Jordan Willis L. Jepson John Muir Walter T. Swingle |
| Influenced | David D. Keck |
| Notable awards | Honorary Doctor of Science, Occidental College (1953) Phi Beta Kappa, Occidental College Chapter (1962) Professor Emeritus, Riverside City College (1965) Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of California, Riverside (1967) Member, University of California Chapter of Sigma Xi (1966) |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | E.Jaeger |
Edmund Carroll Jaeger, D.Sc., (January 28, 1887 – August 2, 1983) was an American biologist known for his works on desert ecology. He was born in Loup City, Nebraska to Katherine (née Gunther) and John Philip Jaeger, and moved to Riverside, California in 1906 with his family. He was the first to document, in The Condor, a state of extended torpor, approaching hibernation, in a bird, the common poorwill. He also described this in the National Geographic Magazine.
Jaeger first attended the newly relocated Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles (in 1914), but moved to Palm Springs in 1915, where he taught at the one-room schoolhouse. At Palm Springs he met artist Carl Eytel, and authors J. Smeaton Chase and Charles Francis Saunders. These men formed what University of Arizona Professor Peter Wild called a "Creative Brotherhood" that lived in Palm Springs in the early 20th century. Other Brotherhood members included cartoonist and painter Jimmy Swinnerton, author George Wharton James, and photographers Fred Clatsworthy and Stephen H. Willard. The men lived near each other (like Jaeger, Eytel built his own cabin), traveled together throughout the Southwest, helped with each other's works, and exchanged photographs which appeared in their various books. He then returned to Occidental to complete his degree in 1918 and started teaching at Riverside Junior College. Retiring from teaching after 30 years, he worked the Riverside Municipal Museum in Riverside. During all these years Jaeger used his Palm Springs cabin for his research trips across the desert. Throughout his career he wrote many popular nature books and became known as the "dean of the California deserts".
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