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Title: Investigations of aquaculture methodologies to enhance success of Great Lakes lake sturgeon streamside facilities
Creator: Bauman, John Matthew
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Streamside rearing facilities (SRFs) have been widely advocated in the Great Lakes basin as the preferred method of culturing Lake Sturgeon in situations where restoration goals to enhance or repatriate populations can be met by stocking. However, over the past decade, targeted stocking goals have been difficult to achieve due in large part to low survival and low growth during early life periods. This study examined three specific early life periods encountered during streamside operation ...
Show moreStreamside rearing facilities (SRFs) have been widely advocated in the Great Lakes basin as the preferred method of culturing Lake Sturgeon in situations where restoration goals to enhance or repatriate populations can be met by stocking. However, over the past decade, targeted stocking goals have been difficult to achieve due in large part to low survival and low growth during early life periods. This study examined three specific early life periods encountered during streamside operation (egg, free-embryo, and larval) and aimed to quantify the effects of different methodologies on the body size and survival of lake sturgeon in a SRF. Information collected during the egg period provides insight regarding the use of different egg chemotherapeutants, de-adhesion and incubation procedures, as well as the documentation of microbial community composition on lake sturgeon egg surfaces. Among egg chemotherapeutants utilized in streamside hatcheries, hydrogen peroxide showed higher mean proportional survival compared to formalin and the control (although results were not statistically significant). Additionally, chemotherapeutants may have selected for microbial communities that have been determined in other studies to be pathogenic. The effects of de-adhesion and incubation on lake sturgeon eggs were quantified using egg survival, egg oxygen consumption rate, and body size as response variables. Results revealed that these variables, except egg survival, did not vary significantly among de-adhesion and incubation treatments. Microbial community composition data suggest de-adhesion and incubation techniques affect the bacterial community composition on the egg surface which may provide insight into mechanisms responsible for differences detected in survival. At the free-embryo period, the effects of rearing density and family on body size and survival in association with dissolved oxygen concentration were quantified to the time of emergence. A significant density and family effect on free-embryo body size at emergence was documented. Feeding regimes, as well as the effects of different weekly prophylactic chemotherapeutants were quantified during the larval period. Results from feeding regime studies revealed significant differences in body size as a function of feeding frequency in hatchery-produced larvae to 30 days post-exogenous feeding. In addition, using hatchery-produced as well as wild-caught larvae, significant differences in body size and survival as a function of alternate food types were documented. Results from the weekly prophylactic chemotherapeutant study revealed a significant treatment effect on the survival of young-of-year lake sturgeon at 49 days post-exogenous feeding. This investigation at multiple life periods highlights methods that improve survival and growth, as well as serves as a tool for the development of standard operating procedures for SRFs geared to enhance current production and recovery of the Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon.
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Title: La Louisiana, parte settentrionalle : scoperta sotto la protettione di Luigi XIV, Ré di Francia, etc
Creator: Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Date: 1695
Collection: Maps

Title: Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c : ce qui est le plus advance vers le Septentrion est tiré de diverses Relations des Anglois, Danois, &c. Vers le Midy les Costes de Virginie, Nouvlle Suede, Nouveau Pays Bas, et Nouvelle Angleterre Sont tirées de celle...
Creator: Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Date: 1656
Collection: Maps

Title: Map of the country embracing the route of the expedition of 1823 commanded by Major S.H. Long
Creator: Penny, R. (Engraver)
Date: 1825
Collection: Maps
Description: Map of the Great Lakes and Rainy River regions and the valleys of the Minnesota River and Red River of the North, showing the route of the 1823 expedition of Stephen Harriman Long. Includes descriptive notes, and indicates the dates and locations where the expedition stopped. Indicates settlements, forts, and Native American tribal regions. The route of the expedition is shown in red.

Title: Freshwater resources : an evaluation of Michigan residents' perception of wetland ecosystem services
Creator: Walkowiak, Toni Anne
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "Thus, this research serves two purposes: (1), to gather information about Michigan residents' overall knowledge of wetlands ecosystems; (2), to establish whether residents can accurately distinguish between wetland functions and values. Two activities: semi-structured focus group interviews and online digital card sorts were conducted within Chippewa, Huron, and Macomb Counties of Michigan, to evaluate individuals' environmental perceptions of wetland ecosystems." -- Abstract.

Title: Characterization of cytochrome P450-1A (CYP1A) enzymes in three aviant species and the development of a caffeine breath test to measure CYP1A activity in vivo
Creator: Feyk, Lori Ann
Date: 1997
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Soccer community formation and the creation of a Mexican barrio in the Great Lakes
Creator: Pescador, Juan Javier
Date: 2002-04-03
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Michigan State University History Professor Juan Javier Pescador delivers a talk entitled, "Soccer Community Formation and the Creation of a Mexican Barrio in the Great Lakes." Pescador describes how the affinity for sports, especially soccer, helped create a social space to initiate political participation, define ethnicity, defy segregation, and celebrate a notion of being Mexican. He looks at the evolution and transformation of the Mexican soccer communities. Pescador is introduced by Kurt...
Show moreMichigan State University History Professor Juan Javier Pescador delivers a talk entitled, "Soccer Community Formation and the Creation of a Mexican Barrio in the Great Lakes." Pescador describes how the affinity for sports, especially soccer, helped create a social space to initiate political participation, define ethnicity, defy segregation, and celebrate a notion of being Mexican. He looks at the evolution and transformation of the Mexican soccer communities. Pescador is introduced by Kurt Dewhurst, Director of the Center for Great Lakes Culture. Part of the Michigan Sate University Libraries' Colloquia Series and cosponsored by the Center for Great Lakes Culture. Held in the MSU Main Library.
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Title: Cultural connections at the Great Lakes Folk Festival
Creator: Pierantozzi, Paul Dante
Date: 2004
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: The hydrophilidae of Michigan with keys to species of the Great Lakes region
Creator: Willson, Ronald Bair
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Two soybean cropping system challenges : manganese fertilizer antagonism of glyphosate, and scheduling irrigation to increase soybean yield
Creator: Bernards, Mark L.
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The thunderbird and underwater panther in the material culture of the Great Lakes indians : symbols of power
Creator: Gile, Marie A.
Date: 1995
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Island population and trait comparisoins of Tiger swallowtail butterflies P. canadensis, in the Great Lakes region
Creator: Ording, Gabriel J.
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Egg injection studies to determine the effects of polyhalogenated environmental contaminants on avian species
Creator: Powell, Debra Curtis
Date: 1995
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Stories as maps and maps as stories : a navigational epistemology
Creator: Choffel, Ezekiel
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: In this thesis, I develop a navigational epistemological lens in order to understand the pathways of navigating knowledge construction. Specifically, I am working with Native American and Indigenous scholars in general, and three scholars specifically, to develop this lens around four main characteristics: history, land, story and relationships. This thesis is broken down into three content chapters, and each chapter focuses on one primary author. Chapter 2 works with Lisa Brooks’ The Common...
Show moreIn this thesis, I develop a navigational epistemological lens in order to understand the pathways of navigating knowledge construction. Specifically, I am working with Native American and Indigenous scholars in general, and three scholars specifically, to develop this lens around four main characteristics: history, land, story and relationships. This thesis is broken down into three content chapters, and each chapter focuses on one primary author. Chapter 2 works with Lisa Brooks’ The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast to build the structure and foundation of the four characteristics. Chapter 3 is a conversation with Andrew Blackbird’s History of the Ottawa and Chipewa Indians of Michigan to better understand how history and land functions in Native epistemology. Chapter 4 is a journey with Louise Erdrich’s Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, specifically considering the implications of story and relationships in Native epistemology. Together, these chapters offer a method of understanding the ways that knowledge is constructed in an Indigenous context and provides a way to theorize and contextualize history, land, story, and relationships with in scholarly discourse.
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Title: Modeling the impacts of barrier removal on Great Lakes sea lamprey
Creator: Jensen, Alexander James
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Barriers in the Great Lakes represent an effective form of control for the invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) by blocking large extents of river habitat and subsequently eliminating the need for the lampricide treatments in these upstream areas. With increasing pressure for barrier removals, the availability of suitable sea lamprey habitat above these barriers and the expected population response to dam removals represent key uncertainties in decision-making. The development and...
Show moreBarriers in the Great Lakes represent an effective form of control for the invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) by blocking large extents of river habitat and subsequently eliminating the need for the lampricide treatments in these upstream areas. With increasing pressure for barrier removals, the availability of suitable sea lamprey habitat above these barriers and the expected population response to dam removals represent key uncertainties in decision-making. The development and evaluation of models to predict larval habitat quantities using readily-available, reach-scale landscape predictors improved our understanding of common influences on stream habitat, but failed to reliably predict habitat proportions upstream of barriers in the Lake Michigan drainage basin. Subsequent simulation-based modeling of the Lake Michigan sea lamprey population revealed a disproportionate, exponential response to increasing habitat availability, driven in part by decreasing overall lampricide treatment frequencies under a fixed control budget. The same modeling approach was used to generate sea lamprey population predictions associated with projected removal of Grand River's Sixth Street Dam under a suite of alternative management actions and biological assumptions. Based on all simulation results, barrier removals appear to necessitate a substantial increase in annual lampricide control costs to prevent disproportionate increases in sea lamprey abundance across the Lake Michigan basin.
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Title: Regulation of bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) productivity in the Great Lakes Basin : an ecological and toxicological approach
Creator: Bowerman, William Wesley
Date: 1993
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Anishinaabek abroad : literal and literary indigenous journeys in the 19th century
Creator: Keway, Nichole Marie
Date: 2012
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACTANISHINAABEK ABROAD:LITERAL AND LITERARY INDIGENOUS JOURNEYS IN THE 19TH CENTURYByNichole Marie Keway The 19th century marked the first significant wave of Native North American tribal peoples to gain spoken and written literacy in English. As first-language speakers of their own indigenous languages, authors approached the learning and use of written English from dual positions of empowerment and subjugation. Their compelling experience of the processes of writing and publication...
Show moreABSTRACTANISHINAABEK ABROAD:LITERAL AND LITERARY INDIGENOUS JOURNEYS IN THE 19TH CENTURYByNichole Marie Keway The 19th century marked the first significant wave of Native North American tribal peoples to gain spoken and written literacy in English. As first-language speakers of their own indigenous languages, authors approached the learning and use of written English from dual positions of empowerment and subjugation. Their compelling experience of the processes of writing and publication underscored how English as a spoken language displaced tribal norms of communal address. The implicit devaluing of oral tradition undermined the established, place-sensitive processes of decision- and meaning- making. The contrast between the heritage of interpersonal council and the introduction of non-placed authoritative letters offers a prescient look at contemporary understandings of how access is gained and denied within the public sphere. The traditional industry, rituals, and stories addressed in the oral tradition were based on the intimacy and immediacy of communion with an expanded sphere of influence not limited to the human. Direct interaction with fellow tribal peoples, deceased ancestors, spirits of land, air and water, as well as the corporeal and spiritual presences of animals all contributed to the establishment of communicative cultural norms. In contrast, a written tradition can normalize stepping away from the immediately shared commonalities of people and place. The validity and authority of this literate public sphere is largely based upon racial, cultural, and anthropologic hierarchies suited to the exploitation of people and resources. The power invested in face-to-face communication rests on a foundation of the situated relationships among diverse life forces. In the literate public sphere, papers and decrees are vested with an authority that overrules the formative influence of place-based relationships steeped in the unifying eco-diversity of the commons. This dissertation explores the implications of this key difference in expressive norms through the writings of the several featured 19th century Anishinaabek authors, as well as through the inclusion of pertinent traditional stories that reflect how unbalanced relationships between people, place, animals, and spirits are of the highest moral and ecological consequence.
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Title: An archaeological evaluation of Fort St. Joseph : an eighteenth century military post and settlement in Berrien County, Michigan
Creator: Hulse, Charles Allen
Date: 1977
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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

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