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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: 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: 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: Great Lakes region : island potential Beaver Archipelago
Creator: Tapp, Rodney
Date: 1966
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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: Analysis of fish eggs from fish of the Great Lakes region for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
Creator: Adamsons, Holly Fortnum
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: John Askin's many beneficial binds : family, trade, and empire in the Great Lakes
Creator: Carroll, Justin M.
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation argues that John Askin, a prominent British merchant, provides a vista from which to view the fluidity of the Atlantic fur trade and the constraints of the British Empire in the late-eighteenth-century North American Great Lakes. Through the critical exploration of Askin's life, family, and trade, this work examines the complex contestation and negotiation that confronted individuals as they went about their lives, businesses and day-to-day interests. Consideration of the...
Show moreThis dissertation argues that John Askin, a prominent British merchant, provides a vista from which to view the fluidity of the Atlantic fur trade and the constraints of the British Empire in the late-eighteenth-century North American Great Lakes. Through the critical exploration of Askin's life, family, and trade, this work examines the complex contestation and negotiation that confronted individuals as they went about their lives, businesses and day-to-day interests. Consideration of the family that Askin nurtured, the imperial and economic relationships that he maintained, and the public image he crafted shows that Askin maintained constant involvement with the complicated economic and social processes of the multi-ethnic communities in which he lived. Likewise, the network of kinship and colleagues that Askin developed allowed him to mute disruptive imperial demands and quell the economic uncertainty that occasionally defined the Great Lakes. Askin nurtured relationships with important British imperial officials like Major Arent Schuyler de Peyster and maintained several multi-ethnic families that connected him to new regions of the fur trade. This dissertation argues that Askin leveraged these relationships into a prosperous trade and established him as one of the region's dominant merchants, but his economic initiatives competed with British imperial designs, eventually making him a target of zealous British officials during the crisis of the American Revolution.
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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: 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: Improving penetration of copper in micronized copper azole pressure treated Michigan red pine
Creator: Rademacher, John
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACTIMPROVING PENETRATION OF COPPER IN MICRONIZED COPPER AZOLE PRESSURE TREATED MICHIGAN RED PINEBy John RademacherMichigan red pine Pinus resinosa is a critical part of the Great Lakes region lumber industry. The species is used for various applications such as telephone poles, dimensional lumber, decking and various other uses. This species is native to the Great Lakes meaning lower shipping costs and the creation of local jobs. The goal of this study overall was to improve the...
Show moreABSTRACTIMPROVING PENETRATION OF COPPER IN MICRONIZED COPPER AZOLE PRESSURE TREATED MICHIGAN RED PINEBy John RademacherMichigan red pine Pinus resinosa is a critical part of the Great Lakes region lumber industry. The species is used for various applications such as telephone poles, dimensional lumber, decking and various other uses. This species is native to the Great Lakes meaning lower shipping costs and the creation of local jobs. The goal of this study overall was to improve the penetration of MCA pressure treated red pine. Using duration, steaming and penetration enhancers we were able to increase the penetration to allow some samples to pass the AWPA penetration standard. We found that the average solution uptake of the treated samples was 47% for spring samples, 106% for summer samples and 79% for fall and winter samples. Steaming alone created better penetration than non-steamed samples but with the addition of penetration enhancers we were able to boost the penetration to levels we had not observed with other treatments as indicated above. Penetration enhancers alone greatly increased the penetration but the steaming would allow for a higher moisture content, which in turn swelled the wood allowing PE to aid greater penetration. Anatomically, red pine has issues with high resin content and pit aspiration, which was observed but a conclusion has was not reached as to what causes the pit aspiration or why aspiration is sporadic in red pine samples regardless of drying or treating
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Title: Factors influencing breeding season survival of female mallards in the Great Lakes region
Creator: Boyer, Ryan Adam
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) are one of the most widely studied waterfowl species in North America, yet there are unknown demographic vital rates that are critical to enhancing the management of this waterfowl species. Specifically, information on breeding season survival rates of female mallards in the Great Lakes region is lacking. We estimated breeding season survival for 484 individually radio-marked female mallards across 9 study sites in the Great Lakes region from 2001-2003. We...
Show moreMallards (Anas platyrhynchos) are one of the most widely studied waterfowl species in North America, yet there are unknown demographic vital rates that are critical to enhancing the management of this waterfowl species. Specifically, information on breeding season survival rates of female mallards in the Great Lakes region is lacking. We estimated breeding season survival for 484 individually radio-marked female mallards across 9 study sites in the Great Lakes region from 2001-2003. We modeled the effects of study site, year, state, female age (after second year [ASY] vs second year [SY]), body condition, and 3 time periods within the breeding season. Additionally, we created utilization distributions (UDs) (i.e., home ranges), estimated core areas for 282 individuals, and quantified land cover types in those core areas to model the effects of those cover types on breeding season survival. Survival ranged from 0.62-0.85 and the mean across all sites was 0.76. Survival was lowest during the peak nesting period, but study site, year, state, age, and body condition had no significant effect on survival. Our top model suggested that breeding season survival decreased as the percent composition of forested cover within the core areas increased (Beta = -1.740, 95% CI Lower = -3.282, Upper = -0.197). Breeding season survival estimates were similar to those estimated elsewhere and we failed to detect a strong relationship between most land cover types within core areas and survival, suggesting that female mallard survival in the Great Lakes region may be affected by land cover factors not assessed as a part of this study or at alternative spatial scales.
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Title: Computationally efficient hierarchical spatial models for large datasets : a case study for the assessment of forest characteristics across the Lake States
Creator: Zhu, Huirong
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The scientific community is moving into an era where data rich environments provide extraordinary opportunities to understand the spatial complexity of ecological processes. Across scientific fields, researchers face the challenge of coupling these data with imperfect models to better understand variability in their system of interest. In the environmental sciences there is recognized urgent need to develop and disseminate methodology capable of accurately accounting for multiple sources of...
Show moreThe scientific community is moving into an era where data rich environments provide extraordinary opportunities to understand the spatial complexity of ecological processes. Across scientific fields, researchers face the challenge of coupling these data with imperfect models to better understand variability in their system of interest. In the environmental sciences there is recognized urgent need to develop and disseminate methodology capable of accurately accounting for multiple sources of uncertainty. Accordingly, the goal of this thesis was to explore and illustrate the properties of promising new modeling tools that will enable researchers to extract more information from large spatial datasets. In particular, this thesis was motivated by a larger project's need to analyze a large forest inventory dataset with the intent to better understand the potential of managing forests for increased complexity as a climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy. The thesis yields results from the analysis of synthetic and forestry datasets that clearly demonstrate how model misspecification, specifically ignoring spatial dependence among model residuals, can result in incorrect inference about regression parameters of interest. These results have important implications for hypothesis testing and ultimately forest management and policy decisions. The thesis details some modeling tools and useful guidelines that allow practitioners to more fully accommodate model assumptions and draw correct inference for large spatial datasets.
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Title: The effects of lampricide treatments on stream pH
Creator: Gannon, Rebecca N.
Date: 2007
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Using GIS to assess FAUNMAP and determine geographic range characteristics of mammoths and mastodons, Great Lakes, USA
Creator: Adams, Kristin M.
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: During the Terminal Pleistocene, many now extinct megafauna roamed across North America. Two of the most widely studied genera from this time period are Mammut (or mastodons) and Mammuthus (or mammoths). While paleoenvironmental studies on individual site localities have been performed, no one has attempted to do a regional study on such species. Additionally, most research on fauna during this time focuses on community dynamics rather than individual species (or genera). The prime source of...
Show moreDuring the Terminal Pleistocene, many now extinct megafauna roamed across North America. Two of the most widely studied genera from this time period are Mammut (or mastodons) and Mammuthus (or mammoths). While paleoenvironmental studies on individual site localities have been performed, no one has attempted to do a regional study on such species. Additionally, most research on fauna during this time focuses on community dynamics rather than individual species (or genera). The prime source of data for these studies is the FAUNMAP database; however, some studies reveal issues with using the database. During this investigation, the FAUNMAP database was compared to a database I created, consisting of the original database and other sites previously published, yet not included, in the FAUNMAP database. To limit the spatial extent for the study, only site localities for the Great Lakes region were used, due to the large concentration of mammoth and mastodon fossils and palynology and plant macrofossil studies. After adding 528 new sites, the hypothesis stating FAUNMAP was an effective database for studies concerning individual species (or genera) was rejected. Further objectives, using the modified database, determined geographic range characteristics, such has size, range shift through time, and associated vegetation. Assuming the site localities are located near their feeding grounds, the associated vegetation may provide a geographic understanding of their diets; however, the results for this study were inconclusive.
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