A chemical and geological investigation of Lake Superior waters and sediments is presented. The study area extends from Superior, Wisconsin to Amnicon Point, Wisconsin, a distance of eight miles. Sampling was enacted on ...

The twin ports of Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota were founded at the head of the world's greatest continuous mass of freshwater. The Laurentian Great Lakes contain about 20% of the world's freshwater resources. ...

A primary threat to Great Lakes sport and commercial fisheries arises from contamination problems due to the introduction of certain xenobiotic chemicals in aquatic environments. Of particular concern are hydrophobic ...

The Lake Superior Research Institute (LSRI) contracted with SEH to evaluate the toxicity of sediments collected from several near-shore sites in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, at Ashland, Wisconsin. The study area had ...

The Superior-Duluth estuary contains more than 11,500 acres of water (calculated from planimeter measurements of maps provided by the Metropolitan Interstate Committee). If compared to inland bodies of water in Wisconsin, ...

The Soviet Union is the world’s third largest producer of cotton, growing approximately one-eighth of the world’s total annual productions of cotton. The country’s average yield of lint per acre in 1964 was the world’s ...

Acute flow-through toxicity tests were conducted with 1 nin e chlorinated organic compounds and four species of freshwater organisms. Eight compounds (1 ,2-dichlorobenzene, 1 ,4-dichlorobenzene, 1,2,4-tirchlorobenzene,hexa­ ...

The Center for Lake superior Environmental studies (CLSES) was created in the late 1960's, a period of national environmental concern. The founding scientists, from the departments of biology, chemistry, geology and ...

Much work has been done during the past few years showing that as the temperature of an organism changes, either upward or down, ionic equilibrium is disturbed within this organism. The degree of disturbance has been shown ...