Title: UW-Milwaukee Center for Great Lakes Studies, Office of the Director Records
Inclusive Dates: 1963-1994

Creator:

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Center for Great Lakes Studies. Office of the Director

Call Number: UWM Archival Collection 59

Quantity:

• 2.4 cubic ft. (5 boxes)
• 3 films (16mm)

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives Department

Archival Location:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Collection consists of miscellaneous records of the center, mostly dating from the 1970s. The correspondence files include letters to and from UWM administrators concerning the center, including the Dean of the College of Letters & Science Joseph G. Baier and Director Clifford H. Mortimer. The correspondence files document concerns over funding; the purchase of a research facility for the center; staffing, including the efforts to attract Mortimer to head the center; and research projects. Also contains some files on the Council for Marine Studies, which directed marine research at the UW campuses; the acquisition and conversion of the Research Vessel (R/V) Neeskay, including photographs of its launching; proposals and requests for additional support for the Sea Grant Program from the National Science Foundation; and the proceedings of the 1973 Conference on Port Planning and Development as Related to Problems of U.S. Ports and the U.S. Coastal Environment. About half of the collection consists of publications issued by the Center, most dating from the 1970s.

Language: English

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On 1 April 1963, Dean Joseph G. Baier appointed an ad hoc committee to begin planning for the establishment of a Center for Great Lakes Studies, which was to be a interdisciplinary unit consolidating research in the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the Great Lakes. The center's first acting coordinator was appointed on 15 October 1964. The center was officially established in February 1966. Between 1964-1973, the center was administered by the College of Letters & Science; beginning in the Fall of 1973, it was administered by the Graduate School. The Great Lakes Research Facility was purchased in 1973, and is administered by UWM for the UW System.

For 30 years, until 1996, the center was titled the Center for Great Lakes Studies. In 1997, the center changed its name to the University of Wisconsin System/ University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Great Lakes WATER Institute. In the year 2000 the name was shortened to the WATER Institute. It was not until 2010 that a graduate degree program was suggested in the field of freshwater science. The graduate program and the institute merged in 2012 to become the School of Freshwater Sciences.

Directors of the Center

1966-1978	C.H. Mortimer
1979-1986	D.N. Edgington
1987-1995	C.C. Remsen

The files are organized alphabetically by subject, then chronologically.

Special Reports are organized by report number in boxes 4-5.

Citation Guide for Primary Sources

Selections from this collection are included in the UWM MINDS@UW collection for the Publications of the Great Lakes Center for Research.

• UW-Milwaukee College of Letters & Science Records. UWM Archival Collection 1.

• UW-Milwaukee Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Records. UWM Archival Collection 12.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

An unknown individual transferred the collection to the Archives prior to 1989. The provenance of the records is unclear. Many of the records in the collection were created or compiled by the dean or an associate dean of the College of Letters & Science. It is not known if these records were later brought together by the deans or the director of the center, or if they were separated from other files by University or Archives staff. The records, whatever their provenance, were placed together under the Center for Great Lakes Studies by the Archives staff sometime before 1989. When processing began in 1993, it was decided to leave the existing organization intact rather than to possibly confuse the provenance even more.

Processing Information

Mark A. Vargas processed the collection at the Archives in December 1993. The collection originally consisted of six series. A few files were added by Jeremy Brett in November 2006. Molly Whiteside (supervised by Christel Maass) added a few miscellaneous items to the collection in September 2015. Christel Maass added an item, previously cataloged, to box 4 of the collection in February 2017. Ashlie Biddle (supervised by Brad Houston) rearranged boxes 3-5 in March 2017. Christel Maass added an additional item from the Libraries' Collection and Resource Management Division in September 2018. Shiraz added three 16mm films of Clifford Mortimer that were donated by the Wisconsin Historical Society in October 2019.

Box   1 Folder   1	Advisory Committee, 1972-1973
Box   1 Folder   2	Affiliated Faculty Meetings, 1974
Box   1 Folder   3	All University Marine Task Force, 1970
Box   1 Folder   32	Brochures, 1977-1989
Box   1 Folder   4	Collected Reprints, 1976
Box   1 Folder   5	Conference on Great Lakes Research, 1968
Box   1 Folder   6-8	Conference on Port Planning and Development, 1973-1974
Box   5 Folder   10	Contribution No. 104, Breeton, Claflin, and Ristic, Aspects of the Physical Limnology of Skadar Lake, 1973
Box   1 Folder   9-16	Correspondence, 1963-1975
Box   1 Folder   17	Council for Marine Studies, 1967-1969
Film   1-3	Films Physical Description: 3 16mm films (400')  Scope and Content Note: Demonstration of water movement and mixing of a lake using an aquarium.
Box   1 Folder   18	Great Lakes Research Facility, 1975-1976, 1994
Box   1 Folder   19	History of the Center for Great Lakes Studies, 1963-1969
Box   1 Folder   20	Oceanography Committee, 1966-1971
Box   1 Folder   21	Opportunities for Research, 1976?
Box   1 Folder   22	Pamphlets, 1987, undated
Box   1 Folder   33	Photographs, 1988, undated
Box   1 Folder   23	Presentation to the Port Industry Conference, 1974
Box   1 Folder   24	Program, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 1981
Box   1 Folder   25	Progress Reports, 1968-1975
	Publications
	Brooks, Arthur S.
Box   3	Investigations of the Effects of Chlorinating Power Plant Cooling Water on the Biota of Lake Michigan, 1974-1975 View this publication
Box   3	Investigations of the Effects of Chlorinating Power Plant Cooling Water on the Biota of Lake Michigan, 1975-1976 View this publication
	Hogman, Walter J.
Box   3	Construction and Evaluation of Free-Falling Net for Sampling Mesopelagic Fishes, 1969
Box   3	Mayer, Harold M., Wisconsin's Great Lakes Ports: Background and Future Alternatives, 1975 View this publication
	Mortimer, C. H.
Box   3	The Case for a Great Lakes Studies Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1969 View this publication
Box   3	Center for Great Lakes Studies at UWM: Present Status and Progress During the Quinquennium 1967-1972, 1972 View this publication
Box   3	Development of an Automatic Vessel-Operated Temperature Depth Profiling System, 1971 View this publication
Box   3	A General Account of the Aims, Activities and Organization of the Center for Great Lakes Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1974 View this publication
Box   3	The Great Lakes: General Characteristics; Multiple Uses; University Involvement, 1968 View this publication
Box   3	A Plan for a Fast Work Boat, 1968 View this publication
Box   3	Whither Great Lakes Studies in Wisconsin, 1971 View this publication
	Special Reports
Box   4	Special Report No. 1, Mortimer, C.H., Internal Waves and Associated Currents Observed in Lake Michigan During the Summer of 1963, 1968 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 2, Schenker, Eric, Effects of Containerization on Great Lakes Ports, 1968 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 2 (1973 Edition), Schenker, Eric, Effects of Containerization on Great Lakes Ports, 1973
Box   4	Special Report No. 4, Fee, Everett J.,Digital Computer Programs for the Defant Method of Seiche Analysis, 1968 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 5, Schenker, Eric, Future General Cargo Traffic and Terminal Requirements at the Port of Milwaukee, 1968 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 6, Fee, Everett, Digital Computer Programs for Spectral Analysis of Time Series, 1969 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 7, Gannon, John E. Great Lakes Plankton Investigations: A Bibliography, 1969 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 8, Gannon, John E., Studies of the Effects of Dredged Materials from Selected Great Lakes Harbors on Plankton and Benthos, 1969 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 9, Hogman, Walter J., Documentation of a Computer Program for Multispecies Fish Populations, 1969 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 10, Schenker, Eric, Overseas Shipping at Great Lakes Ports: Projections for the Future, 1970 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 11, Beeton, A.M., Statement on Pollution and Eutrophication of the Great Lakes, 1970 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 12 Part 1, Mortimer, C.H., Large-Scale Oscillatory Motions and Seasonal Temperature Changes in Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario Part I. Text, 1971 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 12 Part 2, Mortimer, C.H., Large-Scale Oscillatory Motions and Seasonal Temperature Changes in Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario Part II. Illustrations, 1971 View this publication
Box   4	Special Report No. 13, Howmiller, R., P., Report on a Cruise of the R/V Neeskay in Central Lake Michigan and Green Bay, 1971 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 14, Fee, Everett J., Digital Computer Programs for Estimating Primary Production, Integrated Over Depth and Time, in Water Bodies, 1971 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 15, Schenker, Eric, Extending the St. Lawrence Seaway Navigation Season: A Cost-Benefit Approach, 1972 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 18, Beeton, A.M.Investigation of the Influence of Thermal Discharge from a Large Electric Power Station on the Biology and Near-Shore Circulation of Lake Michigan Part A- Biology, 1974 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 19, Rao, Desiraju B., Two-Dimensional Normal Modes in Arbitrary Enclosed Basins on a Rotating Earth: Application to Lakes Ontario and Superior, 1974 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 22, Sato, G. K., Investigation of the Influence of Thermal Discharge from a Large Electric Power Station on the Temperature and Near-Shore Circulation on Lake Michigan, Final Report, 1974
Box   5	Special Report No. 23, Balfe, Margaret, Analysis of International Great Lakes Shipping and Hinterland, 1975 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 31, Brooks, Arthur S., Effects of Intermittent Chlorination on the Biota of Lake Michigan, 1977 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 32, Mortimer, C.H., Internal Waves Observed in Lake Ontario During the International Field Year for the Great Lakes (IFYGL) 1972: I. Descriptive Survey and Preliminary Interpretation of Near-Inertial Oscillations in Terms of Linear Channel-Wave Models, 1977 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 33, Marmorino, G. O., Internal Waves Observed in Lake Ontario During the International Field Year for the Great Lakes (IFYGL) 1972: II. Spectral Analysis and Modal Decomposition, 1978 View this publication
Box   5	Special Report No. 42, Mortimer, C.H., Long Internal Waves in Lakes: Review of a Century of Research, 1993
Box   1 Folder   26	R. V. Neeskay, 1970-1971
Box   1 Folder   27	Request for Support of Facilities, 1975?
Box   1 Folder   28	Sea Grant Program, 1966-1972
	Sea Grant Program
Box   1 Folder   29	Advisory Committee, 1969-1971
Box   1 Folder   30	First Proposal to the National Science Foundation, 1968
Box   1 Folder   31	Proposal to the National Science Foundation for Continuing Support, 1980-1982
Box   2 Folder   1	Proposal to the National Science Foundation for Continuing Support, 1980-1982
Box   2 Folder   2	Scuttlebutt, 1984
Box   2 Folder   3	Steering Committee, 1973-1981