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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center Publications
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Water chemistry at selected sites on pools 7 and 8 of the upper Mississippi River: a ten-year survey
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V. K. Dawson, G. A. Jackson, C. E. Korschgen
Species composition of fish communities in northern Wisconsin lakes: Relation to pH
Fish communities in circumneutral Wisconsin lakes contained significantly more species than did those in acidic lakes (pH 5.1-6.0). Common, as well as rare, species occurred with lower frequency in acidic lakes than in circumneutral lakes. Certain taxa, such as minnows and darters, were either absent or rare in the acidic lakes, probably because of pH-related stress. The differences in species
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J.G. Wiener, P.J. Rago, J.M. Eilers
Longitudinal distribution of trace elements (As, Cd, Cr, Hg, Pb, and Se) in fishes and sediments in the upper Mississippi River
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J.G. Wiener, G. A. Jackson, T.W. May, B.P. Cole
Introduction - Contaminants in the upper Mississippi River
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J.G. Wiener, R.V. Anderson, D.R. McConville
Relationship of young-of-the-year northern pike to aquatic vegetation types in backwaters of the upper Mississippi River
The association of young-of-the-year northern pike (Esox lucius) with different aquatic plant types (e.g., submerged, emergent, floating) was studied to evaluate the impacts of a potential loss of backwaters on available fish nursery habitats in the upper Mississippi River. Eight biweekly collections were made at each of six representative lentic habitats in Navigation Pool 7. In the spring, avera
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L.E. Holland, M.L. Huston
Effects of twenty-five compounds on four species of aquatic fungi (Saprolegniales) pathogenic to fish
Four species of aquatic fungi (Achlya flagellata, A. racemosa, Saprolegnia hypogyna, and S. megasperma) were exposed to 25 chemicals representing seven classes of compounds for 15 and 60 min, in an effort to identify potential fungicidal agents for use in fish culture. The antifungal activity of each chemical was compared with that of malachite green, a reference compound with known fungicidal pro
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Tom A. Bailey
Chromatographic investigations of the configurational and geometrical isomerism of allylic N-terpenyl-N-hydroxyethyl-nitrosamines
A preparative adsorption column chromatographic method is reported for the separation of cis and trans geometrical isomers of two types of N-nitrosamines derived from allylic terpenyl ethanolamines (experimental fish toxicants). Column eluates were monitored by gas chromatography in which a Carbowax 20M stationary phase was used. Further separation of E and Z configurational isomers was achieved b
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S. L. Abidi
Observations on burrowing rates and comments on host specificity in the endangered mussel Lampsilis higginsi
In preliminary laboratory studies, the endangered mussel Lampsitis higginsi was unable to burrow into rocky substrates, but did burrow into substrates comprised of silt, clay, sand, and/or pebble-gravel. Burrowing times were shortest in silt and longest in pebble-gravel. As judged by longevity of glochidial infection, walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) and largemouth bass (Micropterus satrnoides) may
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J.R. Sylvester, L.E. Holland, T.K. Kamer
Climatic data for Williams Lake, Hubbard County, Minnesota, 1983
Research on the hydrology of Williams Lake, north-central Minnesota includes study of evaporation. Presented here are those climatic data needed for energy-budget and mass-transfer studies,including: water-surface temperature, dry-bulb and wet-bulb air temperatures, wind speed, precipitation, and solar radiation. Data are collected at raft and land stations.
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A.M. Sturrock, D. O. Rosenberry, L.G. Engelbrecht, W.A. Gothard, T. C. Winter
Preliminary evaluation of ground-water contamination by coal-tar derivatives, St. Louis Park area, Minnesota
Operation of a coal-tar distillation and wood-preserving plant from 1918 to 1972 in St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minn., resulted in ground-water contamination. This preliminary evaluation presents an overview of the problem based on the results of the first year (1979) of an ongoing study.
By 1932, water in the Prairie du Chien-Jordan aquifer, the region's major source of ground water,
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Marc F. Hult, Michael E. Schoenberg
Hydrogeologic setting and the potentiometric surfaces of regional aquifers in the Hollandale Embayment, southeastern Minnesota, 1970-80
Sedimentary Paleozoic rocks in the Hollandale embayment in southeastern Minnesota are as thick as 2,000 ft. This sedimentary sequence, together with the Proterozoic Hinckley Sandstone and the Quaternary drift, is divided into six regional aquifers: undifferentiated drift, Upper Carbonate, St. Peter, Prairie du Chien-Jordan, Ironton-Galesville, and Mount Simon-Hinckley.
Potentiometric-surface maps
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G. N. Delin, D. G. Woodward
National water summary 1983: Hydrologic events and issues
The United States as a Nation possesses abundant water resources and has developed and used those resources extensively. The national renewable supply of water is about 1,400 billion gallons per day (for the conterminous 48 States). Approximately 380 billion gallons per day of freshwater is withdrawn for use by the Nation's homes, farms, and industries, and about 280 billion gallons per day is ret
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