374 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
{II AGTIVIL ONS OF LM UNTIVIRG LEY Ol’ MICUIGAN, GREAT LAKIsS 1 RCH DIVISION 
The Great Lakes Research Institute was established at the University 
of Michigan by act of the Board of Regents on May 16, 1965. The charter of 
the Institute included the "encouragement and integration of studies of the 
physical, chemical, biological, and other aspects of the Great Lakes and 
Yelated areas." The Institute was reorganized as a @ivision of the Institute 
of Science and Technology of the University of Michigan on April 1, 1960. 
The division now states its objectives as follows: 
(1) "to contribute by every means at its disposal to increase 
understanding of all aspects of the Great Lakes Region. 
(2) To cooperate with other organizations on the campus (of the 
University of Michigan) within the state, and outside the state in the conduct 
of mutually beneficial research on the Great Lakes and their tributary waters. 
(3) To make available the results of Great Lakes investigations and 
to make special efforts to place them in the hands of those concerned with 
practical operations. 
(4) To serve in general as a center for Great Lakes information 
and research for the university, the state, and the Great Lakes region. 
(5) To implement the teaching and research program of the University 
of Michigan." 
The primary function of the division i: the prosecution of pia 
projects relating to the Great ares area, The Division sui,orts an ext: 
large and competent staff of oceanographers, marine biologists, ntibetfol ueROLs., 
hydrologists, and a number of practitioners of disciplines subordinate to these. 
The Division sponsors an annual conference on Great Lakes research, 
normally held at the university at ann Arbor. Scientists from all of the 
active Great Lakes research organizations are invited to present papers at 
these conferences. At the same time each includes information on the gh Soe aS 
organization, functions, and accomplishments of the research unit to which 
he belongs. This enables up-to-date compilations of the nature and activities 
of all of the organizations carrying out scientific programs of importance 
to the Great Lakes area. The last portion of each of these conferences is 
normally devoted to comprehensive panel discussions wherein the participants 
summarize their impressions of the current status of Great Lakes research. 
The final period of the conference is usually occupies in ;eneral disenssion 
of ways and means of improving, the research program. 
A second activity of the Division is that of acbing as a special. 
clearing house for compilation and distribubiion of research data related to 
the area. The Division cooperates with the Great Lakes Commission Jn issuing 
periodic research check lists of this area. 
