2 - Friday, January 18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.cam 2 - Friday, January 18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: This Week in History LEFT, Students discuss their personal experiences at Michigan and how it has affected them on Thursday at the.This Is My Michigan event in North Quad. (MCKENZIE BEREZIN/Daily) TOP RIGHT Ann Arbor Fire Chief Chuck Hubbard speaks with reporters at the scene of the Packard Street fire Sunday evening. (TERRA MOLENGRAFF/Daily) BOTTOM RIGHT LSA fresh- man Cristina Shoffner analyzes sand and leaves for the Univer- sity's Biological Station. 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The incident resulted in no injuries or damages. Fair warning WHERE: 401 Washtenaw WHEN: Wednesday around 8:45 p.m. WHAT: A person of interest in a larceny earlier this week was escorted out of the CCRB, University Police reported. He was given a trespass warning and told not to return. No key, no problem WHERE: 551 State WHEN: Wednesday between 12:20 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. WHAT: A locked bicycle was stolen from a bike rack, University Police reported. There are no suspects. Vive le pot WHERE: Mary Markley Residence Hall WHEN: Wednesday around 10:50 p.m. WHAT: A student was arrested for suspected posession of marijuana. The student was processed and released pending warrant authorization. Chinese drama WHAT: There will be a series of screenings of works by Cao Yu, a Chinese dramatist, based on the dificulties faced by Chinese intellectuals. WHO: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan WHEN: Today at 8:00 a.m. WHERE: North Campus Research Complex MLK colloquium WHAT: Linguist Anne Charity Hudley will give a lecture in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life. This event will be one of many events throughout the weekend. WHO: The University Record WHEN: Today at 4:00 p.m. WHERE: West Hall Room 340 South Asian conference WHAT: Day one of a con- ference on South Asian awareness will be held today. It is the largest South Asian undergraduate con- ference in the nation. WHO: The University Record WHEN: Today at 5:00 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League Poster sale WHAT: The start-of- semester poster sale is back. Most posters are between $7 and $9. WHO: Center for Campus Involvement WHEN: Today from 10:00a.m. to 7:00 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union 0 Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. T HR EE T H ING Y- A 76-year-old man was severely beaten Wed. night after trying to wake up a sleeping child on a train. He was reportedly knocked unconscious on the New York subway train by another man who was reportedly with the child. The Michigan basket- ball team registered an important victory on the road Thursday in Min- nesota, 83-75. Junior forward Tim Hardaway Jr. led the Wolverines with 21 points, including four 3-pointers, and missed only one shot. Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's girlfriend, who he said died September of last year, is reportedly not a real person. Lennay Kekua and her story's veracity were not corroborated by background checks. Adam Rubenfire ManagingNews Editor arube@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Alicia Adamczyk, Katie Burke, Austen Hufford, Peter Shahin, K.C. Wassman'. 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The University-centered Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping proj- ect identified mercury contami- nation, changing water levels, four invasive species -and 28 other environmental stressors disruptive to the Great Lakes. GLEAM presented these findings on a website launched in December that features interactive maps of the Great Lakes. The findings are also published in the Jan. 2 Proceed- ings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. The maps exhibit how each individual stressor affects an area in the Great Lakes, and a general map shows the total impact of the stressors. The stress index of the latter map indicates that Lake Ontario is the most affected, followed by Lakes Erie, Michigan, Huron and Superior. Other maps illus- trate the benefits that the lakes provide humans, such as beach- es and commercial fishing. J. David Allan, a professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and one of four leaders of GLEAM, said the ongoing project is intended to "develop the right kinds of infor- mationto assist restoration." The project - now tied to the three-month-old University of Michigan Water Center - was funded by the Fred A. and Barbara M. ErbFamilyFoundation, agroup that supports initiatives to better the Great Lakes community. Adrienne Marino, a research specialist at the Water Center, - said she assisted in the collection of data provided by researchers and resource management agen- cies hailing from the Great Lakes region. The team compiled data by analyzing, processing and mapping published research and weighing the importance of each stressor. "Applying stressor weightings and completing other transforma- tions and calculations were neces- sary to put the individual maps on a consistent scale and to develop the cumulative map," Marino said. Gregory Boyer, chair of chemis- try at the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry, was one of the 15 working group members. . Boyer noted that the most destruction has occurred in shal- low waters. In deeper offshore waters, Boyer said, water sepa- rates into warmer top waters and cooler deep waters. Between these two layers is a thermocline, an area where dramatic temperature change occurs. Boyer said this stratification is necessary to prevent pollutants from affecting humans and to ensure that harmful algal blooms cannot reach sunlight that would support its growth, a process that would lead to other environmen- tal complications. "When you're talking about a chemical pollutant ... offshore, it absorbs through a particle, goes through the thermocline and is effectively removed from human contact," Boyersaid. Boyer said he worries that shal- lowwaterswere most affected. "This is especially troublesome because these are the waters that humans use more, like in beach- es," Boyer said. "Nearshore often sees more stress than the off- shore waters." Allan said the GLEAM project has already provided data to the Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other environmental groups. But, he said, additional work is still nec- essary. For example, the cumula- tive stress index used by the maps, which totals up each stressor and its weighted importance, doesn't fully convey environmental prob- lems. "Increasingly in the field of understanding environmental stressors affecting ecosystems, we realized that stressors are interac- tive," Allan said. "Invasive species one and invasive species two might be a double whammy that's bigger than their sum." In the meantime, Sigrid Smith, a research associate of the School of Natural Resources and; Envi- ronment who also led GLEAM, said the Great Lakes might never reach hypothetical . "normal" environmental conditions. For that reason, targeted goals may need rethinking. "I think of the target of resto- ration as promoting ecosystem health, so that the native popula- tions of plants, animals and other organisms are as healthy as pos- sible and produce as much human benefit as possible." LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? Come to 420 Maynard Street for a good time. Stop in during * our mass meeting next Thursday, Jan. 24 to see why journalism turns us on. CHECK US OUT ONLINE: MICHIGANDAILY.COM THIS EVENT IS BROUGHT TO YOI. IE BUSINESS & FINANCE DIVERSITY COMMI f