Donald Strathearn Rawson (19 May 1905 – 16 February 1961) was a Canadian limnologist who worked with the University of Saskatchewan from 1928 to 1961.
[1] For his post-secondary education, Rawson attended the University of Toronto in the 1920s for several degrees ranging from a Bachelor of Arts to a Doctor of Philosophy.
[2] That year, Rawson started performing limnology research at Prince Albert National Park.
[8] In 1944, Rawson and his colleagues went to Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories to begin a three-year study on ostracodes.
[9] While working for the University of Saskatchewan until 1961, Rawson became in charge of the Fisheries Laboratory in 1948 and head of biology the following year.