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Title: The hydrophilidae of Michigan with keys to species of the Great Lakes region
Creator: Willson, Ronald Bair
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Induction of hepatic cytochrome P450 and examination of ovarian steroid receptor homeostasis in three generations of mink consuming PCB-contaminated carp from Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron
Creator: Shipp, Elizabeth Brownell
Date: 1999
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Pre-settlement beaver population density in the Upper Great Lakes Region
Creator: Alcoze, Thomas Moore
Date: 1981
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Science education as a means for improving Great Lakes citizens' risk decision making skills and predicting teachers' intention to incorporate risk education : a comparison of the theories of reasoned action, planned behavior and trying
Creator: Zint, Michaela T. (Michaela Theresia)
Date: 1996
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The sandstone architecture of the Lake Superior Region
Creator: Eckert, Kathryn Bishop
Date: 1982
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A comparison of productivity and related traits for European Larch (Larix decidua Miller) and red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across a site quality gradient in the Great Lakes Region
Creator: Gerlach, John Philip
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Middle management and the small college : an analysis of the evolution, organization, and condition of professional administration at seven small, independent, liberal arts colleges in the Great Lakes region
Creator: Potter, William Paul
Date: 1992
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Documentary and archaeological perspectives on European trade goods in the Western Great Lakes Region
Creator: Anderson, Dean
Date: 1992
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: On the use of a regional-scale numerical climate model in wind energy applications
Creator: Shein, K. A. (Karsten A.,)
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Behavior and development of larval gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.), on trees of the upper Great Lakes forests
Creator: Roden, David Berkeley
Date: 1992
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Comparing questionnaire based measures on Great Lakes sport fish consumption for prediction of human serum polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) levels
Creator: Mullard, Andrew
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Traditional medicine at an Indian reserve
Creator: Joy, Mary E.
Date: 1989
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The caffeine breath test : a less invasive method to measure cytochrome P450-1A activity in birds
Creator: Feyk, Lori Ann
Date: 1994
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Systems of subsistence and networks of exchange in the terminal woodland and early historic periods in the Upper Great Lakes
Creator: Smith, Beverley Ann
Date: 1996
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Assessing ecosystem-based management in the Great Lakes Basin
Creator: Guthrie, Amanda G.
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Ecosystem-based management incorporates biotic, abiotic, and social components into natural resource management decisions to promote natural resource sustainability. Fishery management in the Great Lakes basin has been facilitated by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) as the GLFC has taken a lead role in supporting ecosystem-based management for Great Lakes fisheries. The GLFC hosts Lake Committee meetings which began in the 1960s. Additionally the GLFC sponsored the Salmonid Community...
Show moreEcosystem-based management incorporates biotic, abiotic, and social components into natural resource management decisions to promote natural resource sustainability. Fishery management in the Great Lakes basin has been facilitated by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) as the GLFC has taken a lead role in supporting ecosystem-based management for Great Lakes fisheries. The GLFC hosts Lake Committee meetings which began in the 1960s. Additionally the GLFC sponsored the Salmonid Community on Oligotrophic Lakes (SCOL) workshop in 1971 that furthered understanding about anthropogenic stressors on fish communities, advancing management and research discussions in the basin. I explored 1) the role of the GLFC in developing ecosystem-based management principles in 1970-1975 through Lake Committee Meetings, and 2) how the structure of the Lake Committee meetings and SCOL influenced fishery management agency views towards ecosystem-based management principles. I confirmed that the GLFC facilitated management agencies to share fisheries management decisions and concerns across jurisdictions. SCOL was found to influence fishery management agencies to view management through a more comprehensive ecosystem perspective leading to a community and ecosystem perspective. Overall, ecosystem-based management principles were developing in the basin in 1970-1975 primarily through a fisheries perspective as resource managers moved from a single species type approach to an ecosystem perspective which was facilitated by the GLFC activities.
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Title: Simulating Springwells : a complex systems approach toward understanding Late Prehistoric social interaction in the Great Lakes region of North America
Creator: Carroll, Jon William
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation examines the nature of Springwells phase (ca. A.D. 1160 to 1420) sociopolitical interaction and integration during the Late Prehistoric period (post A.D. 1000) in the Great Lakes region of North America. Combined ceramic analysis and computer simulation employing Agent Based Modeling (ABM) supports the interpretation that Springwells phase communities were organized in a form of sociopolitical integration most readily recognized as a loose confederation or interactive...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the nature of Springwells phase (ca. A.D. 1160 to 1420) sociopolitical interaction and integration during the Late Prehistoric period (post A.D. 1000) in the Great Lakes region of North America. Combined ceramic analysis and computer simulation employing Agent Based Modeling (ABM) supports the interpretation that Springwells phase communities were organized in a form of sociopolitical integration most readily recognized as a loose confederation or interactive network of middle range, tribal societies spanning a broad area. The interpretation presented here differs from those in previous work in that it characterizes tribal sociopolitical organization as the embodiment of a complex system as outlined by the complexity science literature. A revised ceramics typology expands the resolution of the original Springwells phase ceramic typology, thus inserting a more fine-grained understanding of common stylistic design elements. This expanded taxonomy allows for increased resolution relating to the geographic distributions of Springwells stylistic motifs. Agent Based Modeling is then used to explore changes in relationships between cultural transmission (CT) and interactional exchange scenarios. A complexity science approach attributes the overall characteristics of the Springwells social network to emergent properties generated by individual agents that scale up and become recognizable at a system level. The advent of Late Prehistoric social complexity in the form of tribalization is seen as a social response to widespread political developments in the region. ABM is seen as an important new analytic tool through which to explore the parameters of past social behaviors.
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Title: Genetic climatology of the Great Lakes Region
Creator: Hodgins, Larry Edwin
Date: 1960
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Paleoindian economic organization in the lower Great Lakes region : evaluating the role of caribou as a critical resource
Creator: Carr, Dillon H.
Date: 2012
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: There is a widespread perception that Rangifer tarandus (caribou) constitutes a critical resource for Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers inhabiting the lower Great Lakes region. However, this perception has not been formally tested using the regional archaeological record. To this end, this dissertation constitutes a formal test of the caribou hunting hypothesis utilizing archeological data from lower Great Lakes Paleoindian (ca. 11,500-10,000 14C BP) sites. To formally test...
Show moreThere is a widespread perception that Rangifer tarandus (caribou) constitutes a critical resource for Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers inhabiting the lower Great Lakes region. However, this perception has not been formally tested using the regional archaeological record. To this end, this dissertation constitutes a formal test of the caribou hunting hypothesis utilizing archeological data from lower Great Lakes Paleoindian (ca. 11,500-10,000 14C BP) sites. To formally test the hypothesis that caribou were the organizational focus of lower Great Lakes Paleoindian subsistence economies a heuristic model for a residentially mobile caribou hunting society is constructed from ethnographic and comparative archaeological data. Archaeological data from lower Great Lakes Paleoindians are compared against expected patterning derived from the residentially mobile caribou hunting model to evaluate the extent to which patterned variability in the Paleoindian archaeological record reflects an intensive caribou hunting society.This formal evaluation of the caribou hunting hypothesis indicates that certain aspects of the Paleoindian archaeological record support the idea that caribou were an important resource. In particular, there is some evidence to suggest that more standardized extractive implements and larger, multi-locus, Lake Algonquian coastal sites support an interpretation of intercept caribou hunting. Likewise assemblage level data and regional scale data support the interpretation that Paleoindian inhabitants of the lower Great Lakes region practiced a high rate of residential mobility across large territories (>20,000 km2). Residential mobility, the large size of these territories, and the likelihood for low population density are all characteristics consistent with those modeled for intensive caribou hunting societies. However, and in contradiction with expected patterns, there is less evidence to support the interpretation that Paleoindian bands practiced herd-following, where groups would spatially relocate themselves between the winter and summer ranges of caribou herds. Instead, standardization data and site level data suggest an interior/coastal focus, as opposed to a north/south focus, within the overall organization of the economic system. This realization raises the possibility that caribou herds may have been intercepted during autumn near the coastal zone with the exploitation of other interior resources at other times of the year. In this regard, lower Great Lakes Paleoindian archaeological data conform more closely with central European Upper Paleolithic Magdalenian economies. This pattern contrasts with the classic barren-ground herd following pattern exemplified by ethnographic and archaeological data from the Ethen-edeli Chipewyan.
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Title: Climatology of springtime freeze events in the Great Lakes Region and their impact on sour cherry yields in historical and projected future time frames
Creator: Rill, Lydia
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "Production of sour cherries has a significant impact on the economy of the Great Lakes Region, valued at more than $74 million. In contrast to cereal crops where water is the most limiting factor, perennials in temperate regions are limited by freeze injury, especially in the spring following initial phenological development, which was highlighted in 2002 and 2012 when yields decreased considerably. This study analyzed the spatial and temporal variability of springtime freeze events in the...
Show more"Production of sour cherries has a significant impact on the economy of the Great Lakes Region, valued at more than $74 million. In contrast to cereal crops where water is the most limiting factor, perennials in temperate regions are limited by freeze injury, especially in the spring following initial phenological development, which was highlighted in 2002 and 2012 when yields decreased considerably. This study analyzed the spatial and temporal variability of springtime freeze events in the Great Lakes Region and their impact on sour cherry production, as well as explored the use of gridded climatic datasets. Additionally, this study examined the historical trends in sour cherry yield and potential future changes by the mid-century. The Great Lakes played a major role in the spatial variability of springtime freezes, as locations inland experienced colder temperatures than near the coast. Simulated damaging freeze events over the past 50 years were most common during the later phenological stages of the crop, while the most severe damage occurred in the earlier stages. Gridded datasets were less suitable for this application than individual station observations. Over time, phenological development has tended to begin earlier, and this trend was projected to continue into the mid-century at three stations located in northwest, west central, and southwest Lower Michigan. An ensemble of climate projections indicated a large uncertainty envelope surrounding changes in simulated sour cherry yield. The projected changes varied by emissions scenario, downscaling method, and climate model."--Page ii.
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Title: The laurel world : time-space patterns of ceramic styles and their implications for culture change in the upper Great Lakes in the first millennium A.D
Creator: Rajnovich, Margaret Grace Nell
Date: 2003
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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