Devils Lake Research Articles

A Proposed Use Of The Semantic Differential Technique In Studies Involving Acculturation

A simplified plan using the semantic differential technique for identifying some indices of acculturation is presented for cultural anthropologists whose research often entails the need to recognize cultural affiliation differences among Native Americans. This plan is based upon the analyses and results of a study conducted among Devils Lake Sioux teenagers which employed conventional interviewing techniques for discovering cultural affiliation and the semantic differential technique for measuring differences in meaning ascribed to social studies concepts. It was found that the semantic differential technique used alone could indicate cultural affiliation, suggesting that complex interviewing techniques are not always necessary.

Relationships between phosphorus loading and trophic state in calcareous lakes of southeast Wisconsin

The relationships among external phosphorus loading, lake phosphorus concentrations, and indices of lake trophic state are investigated for four calcareous and one noncalcareous lake in southeast Wisconsin. The total P and molybdate‐reactive P concentrations during winter and spring overturn are significantly higher in the calcareous lakes than predicted by models based on regional studies of Canadian Shield (ELA) lakes and the central New York Finger Lakes. The calcareous Wisconsin lakes have relatively low phosphorus retention coefficients and are eutrophic despite their low or only moderate external P loadings. By contrast, noncalcareous Devils Lake is oligotrophic; it is also adequately represented by the ELA loading vs. response equations.The calcareous Wisconsin lakes and edaphically similar Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, have lower epilimnetic chlorophyll concentrations in summer than predicted by the Dillon and Rigler equation (based on lake mean total P at spring overturn). Because these stratified lakes are frequently phosphorus‐limited in midsummer, the failure of the Dillon‐Rigler model may be related to seasonal cycles of mixed‐layer concentrations of total P (and SRP) and also to the seasonal patterns of loading. From other studies I suggest that these observations may be part of a larger edaphic pattern related to low phosphorus binding tendencies of certain calcareous lake sediments.

Estimating Map Unit Composition

Soil Survey HorizonsVolume 25, Issue 2 p. 21-25 Article Estimating Map Unit Composition R. J. Bigler, R. J. Bigler Soil survey party leader Soil Conservation Service, Devils Lake, ND, 58301Search for more papers by this authorK. J. Liudahl, K. J. Liudahl soil scientist Soil Conservation Service, Devils Lake, ND, 58301Search for more papers by this author R. J. Bigler, R. J. Bigler Soil survey party leader Soil Conservation Service, Devils Lake, ND, 58301Search for more papers by this authorK. J. Liudahl, K. J. Liudahl soil scientist Soil Conservation Service, Devils Lake, ND, 58301Search for more papers by this author First published: Summer 1984 https://doi.org/10.2136/sh1984.2.0021Citations: 2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume25, Issue2Summer 1984Pages 21-25 RelatedInformation

The Devils Lake — Sourisford Burial Complex on the Northeastern Plains

The Devils Lake — Sourisford Burial Complex on the Northeastern Plains

The Prediction of Great Salt Lake Levels on the Basis of Recent Solar - Climatic Cycles

The major glacial-interglacial cycles are considered very briefly as to probable cause and the implications of such cause as to their future trend and its effect on the future levels of Great Salt Lake. The recent solar-climatic cycles since the 14th century, and in more detail since the Maunder Sunspot minimum, are considered from the point of view of their predicted extrapolation into the decades and the centuries immediately ahead of us. Fluctuations of level of three terminal lakes, Great Salt Lake, Utah; Devils Lake, North Dakota; and, very spottily, the Caspian Sea, are examined from the point of view of their relationship to the solar climatic cycles. These relationships are applied accordingly to the prediction of Great Salt Lake water levels for the decades and centuries immediately ahead.

The Occurrence of Neotenic Salamanders, Ambystoma tigrinum diaboli Dunn, in Devils Lake, North Dakota

The Occurrence of Neotenic Salamanders, Ambystoma tigrinum diaboli Dunn, in Devils Lake, North Dakota

GRASSLAND COMMUNITY FRACTIONS FROM CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA UNDER SIMULATED CLIMATES

For a broad latitudinal comparison, 6 growth chambers with temperature and light‐period controls were programmed to simulate 20 weeks of the growing periods for Devils Lake, North Dakota; Lincoln, Nebraska; Austin, Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Mexico City, D.F.; and Flagstaff, Arizona. Clonal populations of Panicum virgatum L., the Andropogon gerardi Vitman–halli Hack. complex, A. scoparius Michx., Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash, Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag., and B. curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. composed the experimental community fractions. The short growing periods of the northern and high‐altitudinal climates accommodated flowering within 5 populations of the North Dakota and Arizona community fractions. In the other climates, the growing periods, variously incomplete during the 20‐week programming, also accommodated flowering of many of the early‐maturing populations. Annual endogenous rhythms within the geographic variants were suggested by the different response patterning. The northern clones responded rapidly and showed sensitivity to diverse environmental conditions. Many southern clones, requiring more than 20 weeks for flowering, showed developmental homeostasis under the different climates.

Grassland Community Fractions from Central North America Under Simulated Climates

For a broad latitudinal comparison, 6 growth chambers with temperature and light-period controls were programmed to simulate 20 weeks of the growing periods for Devils Lake, North Dakota; Lincoln, Nebraska; Austin, Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Mexico City, D.F.; and Flagstaff, Arizona. Clonal populations of Panicum virgatum L., the Andropogon gerardi Vitman–halli Hack. complex, A. scoparius Michx., Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash, Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag., and B. curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. composed the experimental community fractions. The short growing periods of the northern and high-altitudinal climates accommodated flowering within 5 populations of the North Dakota and Arizona community fractions. In the other climates, the growing periods, variously incomplete during the 20-week programming, also accommodated flowering of many of the early-maturing populations. Annual endogenous rhythms within the geographic variants were suggested by the different response patterning. The northern clones responded rapidly and showed sensitivity to diverse environmental conditions. Many southern clones, requiring more than 20 weeks for flowering, showed developmental homeostasis under the different climates.

Late Pleistocene Glacial Drainage in the Devils Lake Region, North Dakota

The Devils Lake region of northeastern North Dakota is covered with glacial drift deposited by the Leeds lobe of the Mankato Substage of the Wisconsin Stage of the Pleistocene and is underlain by Pierre Shale of Cretaceous age. Associated with the Sheyenne River, which flows through the southern part of the region in a deep trench, are many stream terraces, spillways, deposits of ice-contact stratified drift, and eroded ground-moraine areas. Six stages of drainage have been established to which these various features can be assigned. In the first two stages the features formed as melt water drained to the glacial James River south of the region and as the ice front stood at and later retreated from the site of the Heimdal moraine, a recessional moraine of the Leeds lobe. The later stages occurred after the valley of the Sheyenne River was free of ice and after glacial Lake Souris northwest of the region drained down the valley to glacial Lake Agassiz in the eastern part of the state. Features originating during the four later stages are largely related to the deposition of the North Viking moraine (another, more northern, recessional moraine of the Leeds lobe) and subsequent retreat of the ice from the moraine. Discharge from the local Devils and Stump lakes and from glacial Lake Souris also were of considerable importance in the genesis of many features.

Drumlins and related streamline features in the Warwick-Tokio area, North Dakota

NE.-trending drumlins and related streamline features of late Pleistocene age are found in the Warwick-Tokio area of the Devils Lake region of North Dakota. These features range from small drumlins to large ridges or scorings in end moraines. Some isolated end moraine patches contain exposures of Pierre shale bedrock of Cretaceous age. These bedrock highs seem to have controlled the location of the morainal patches but do not seem significant in the origin of the stream-line features. The origin of the streamline features is uncertain but they are probably erosional rather than depositional. Why they are localized in this part of the Devils Lake region and absent elsewhere is not clear. No significant differences of terrain or materials were found among the various parts of the region. Possibly some as yet unknown factor in the now vanished ice is responsible for their formation in this small area.

On the Postglacial History of the Devils Lake Region, North Dakota

Devils and Stump lakes in eastern North Dakota have been diminishing in area more or less continuously since the land around them was settled in the 1880's. Desiccations similar to the current one have occurred at least once and possibly two or more times in the past and are indicated directly and indirectly by tree stumps recently uncovered as the lake water receded and by lacustrine deposits containing buried soils and vertebrate remains. The lake levels seem to respond in a very sensitive manner to slight climatic changes. Probably the present desiccation and certainly the ones in the past are the result of changes toward a drier and warmer climate. The first may have been synchronous with the Thermal Maximum. A high abandoned strand line and associated lacustrine deposits containing buried soils and vertebrate remains indicate at least one period in the postglacial past, possibly following the Thermal Maximum, that was wetter and cooler than the present. A second desiccation, more definitely establish...

The Chemical Quality of Surface Waters in Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota

The Chemical Quality of Surface Waters in Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota

The Chemical Quality of Surface Waters in Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota

The Chemical Quality of Surface Waters in Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota

The Sediments of Devils Lake, a Eutrophic-Oligotrophic Lake of Southern Wisconsin

ABSTRACT The sediments covering the bottom of Devils Lake below the depth of about six meters are fine muds. Above six meters they increase in coarseness with decrease in depth to become sands or courser materials on the shores. The immediate bottom of the lake at short distances from the shores is covered with a black soupy liquid that is termed sludge. This has a maximum thickness estimated as about one meter. The sediments beneath the sludge are black and have an average water content of 82.5 per cent. Silicon dioxide is the chief constituent of the inorganic part of the sediments and ranges in percentage between 50 to more than 60 per cent. There is little or no calcium or magnesium carbonate, The organic content of the sediments is estimated to be between 15 and 20 per cent. Bacteria are ot particularly abundant in the muds beneath the sludge, but aerobic and facultative bacteria average over a million per gram of dry sludge.

Red River Valley Water Problems

In 1880, which we will accept as the starting point as a background for this problem and about which time government surveys were made, we find over five thousand bodies of water of sufficient size to be classed as lakes. At present there may be one thousand sloughs. Devils Lake which originally had an area of 125 square miles and a depth of 35 feet now has an area of less than 30 square miles and a depth of less than 7 feet. Minnesota lakes which drain into the Ottertail and thence into the Red River have receded, without exception, from two to ten feet. Among these lakes are Ottertail, Rush, Big Pine, Little Pine, Height of Land, Round, Many Point, Little Bemidji, Flat and Egg Lakes. The Bois de Sioux river which joins the Ottertail at Breckenridge, Minnesota, and which formerly carried a considerable flow of water throughout the year, is now dry except during a short period of the spring run-off. The Sheyenne River in North Dakota which empties into the Red below Fargo has in late years been known to be only a series of puddles. This river, which we will refer to again, rises in the central western part of the state, approximately due north of Bismarck, the state capitol. The Wild Rice river which feeds the Red River above Fargo has, for the past few years, been entirely dry except during short periods of spring run-off. The Red Lake River rising in Minnesota and flowing into the Red River at Grand Forks and supplying Grand Forks and East Grand Forks with water has been

Pre-Cambrian Water-Laid Tuff in the Baraboo, Wisconsin, District

An outcrop of pre-Cambrian rock in the Devils Lake area of south-central Wisconsin, described in the literature as a rhyolite flow, is believed to be a fragmental, water-laid tuff.

Algae from Lakes in the Northeastern Part of North Dakota

In the Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 4, Number 4, page 293, 1917, there was published a preliminary list of algae from Devils Lake, North Dakota. Since this list appeared there have been received from time to time, through Professor R. T. Young, Director of the State Biological Station, collections of algae, not only from Devils Lake proper, but also from many lakes in the surrounding regions. Because of the conditions under which many of these algae grow and the discovery of several forms which are extremely rare, or reported for the first time from this country, it seems desirable to publish from these more extensive samples a supplementary account of the algae from this particular section of North Dakota. The list on p. 397 does not necessarily include all the species mentioned in the earlier list, and therefore in any consideration of the algal flora of this region it should be borne in mind that, since the preliminary list contains forms not appearing in the list published herewith, the two should be considered together in order to give the most comprehensive view of the algae from this region. On pp. 395-396 the species from the area under consideration, both those observed in the present investigation and those contained in the earlier list, have been brought together with the object of contrasting the flora of the freshwater and alkaline lakes, according to the classification of the waters given above by Dr. Young. The number of freshwater and alkaline lakes

Variation in the Horizontal Distribution of Plankton in Devils Lake, North Dakota

The horizontal distribution of plankton has been studied by several investigators and varied results have been obtained. It is usually held, however, that under uniform physical conditions the distribution of the plankton is uniform. The question is of great importance since in quantitative plankton investigations the amount of plankton found at a certain station is usually taken as representative of a large area. For several years plankton studies have been carried on at the Biological Station at Devils Lake, North Dakota, under the direction of Dr. R. T. Young, and in connection with these studies collections were made during the summer of 1914, to determine whether the organisms in Devils Lake showed any diurnal movements. For this purpose collections were made shortly after noon, just after sunset, and shortly before sunrise from the surface, the 0.6 m., the 2.1 m., and the 3.6 m. levels, the depth of the lake at that place being about 4 m. All the samples were taken in identically the same place and on all occasions the velocity of the wind and the condition of the sky were similar. The samples, each of 500 cc., were concentrated to 10 cc., and counted according to the SedgwickRafter2 method. In each case the total number of individuals in two or three cells, and therefore in 100 cc. or 150 cc. of the original sample, were counted. The results obtained are shown in Table I.

Algae of Devils Lake

Algae of Devils Lake

Changing Diatoms of Devils Lake

Previous articleNext article FreeChanging Diatoms of Devils LakeClarence J. ElmoreClarence J. Elmore Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 65, Number 2Feb., 1918 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/332209 Views: 77Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Journal History This article was published in the Botanical Gazette (1876-1991), which is continued by International Journal of Plant Sciences (1992-present). PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:W. Fyg, F. E. Fritsch Bibliography of English and American papers on Hydrobiology, 1910-1919, Zeitschrift für Hydrologie 1, no.3-43-4 (Sep 1920): 351–370.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02483858