Joe K. Neel Papers, 1941-1989

Joe K. Neel Papers

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Collection Overview

Title: Joe K. Neel Papers, 1941-1989

ID: OGLMC1004

Primary Creator: Neel, Joe K. (1915-1990)

Extent: 11.75 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

Series 1: Correspondence

Series 2: Subject Files

Series 3: Project Files

Series 4: Oversize Materials

Series 5: Photographs

Series 6: Slides

Date Acquired: 12/28/1984. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: University of North Dakota - Faculty

Languages: English

Abstract

Contains correspondence, files, photographs, and slides related to Neel's life and career as a research scientist.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Joe K. Neel Papers arrived at the Department in 13 boxes. Documents that pertained to Neel's research were contained in seven boxes grouped by project. Two of the other six boxes contained subject files that were arranged alphabetically. Two other boxes contained correspondence. One of these included correspondence that Neel had arranged by correspondent or by topic, as well as other letters that were arranged chronologically. Neel's arrangement of this box was maintained during processing. A second box of correspondence pertained only to Neel's graduate students. These files were arranged alphabetically by student and transcript materials were removed and shredded. Another box contained the manuscript copy of Neel's book on the Turtle River, A Northern Prairie Stream. Finally, one box contained documents related to Science Institutes held at UND and elsewhere between 1960 and 1964. Because these documents pre-dated Neel's tenure at UND and were related to Professor Kannowski, this box was separated from the Neel Papers and deposited into the Paul B. Kannowski Papers, OGLMC 683 (94-1971).

Collection Historical Note

Joe Kendall Neel was born June 12, 1915 in Tacoma, Virginia, the son of George Frank and Evelyn (Herold) Neel. He grew up in Winchester, Kentucky, where he graduated from high school. He attended the University of Kentucky, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1937 and a Master of Science degree in 1938. From 1942-1946 Neel served in an Army medical entomologist supporting a malaria control program administered by the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). He attained the rank of captain. In 1947 Neel earned a Doctorate Degree (as a Rackham Fellow) from the University of Michigan. His specialty was limnology, the scientific study of bodies of fresh water as it relates to their physical, geographical, and biological features.

Neel was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky from 1947-1950. From 1950 to 1963, Neel again worked for the USPHS, as a staff member of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. As a result of work performed during this tenure, Neel became known as a pioneer in the study of sewage lagoons as well as an expert at identifying invertebrates, microscopic organisms, insects, and larvae in streams. Sponsored by the State Department in 1962, Neel traveled around the world lecturing on waste treatment. A year later he was named the director of the Potamalogical Institute at Louisville, Kentucky, a job he held until 1966.

In 1966, Neel accepted a professorship in UND's Biology Department and his limnological expertise led him to become involved in many regional research projects. In North Dakota he studied Grand Forks sewage lagoons, the Upper Missouri River Basin, Devils Lake, and Turtle River. Neel was fascinated by the Turtle River and he documented his seven-year study of it in a 1985 publication entitled A Northern Prairie Stream. In Minnesota, Neel coordinated research performed at Lake Sallie and the Pelican River Basin. He was presented the Sigma Xi Research Award in 1972.

Neel was a member of the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, the Ecological Society of America, the Microscopical Society, and the Water Pollution Control Federation. In 1969 he was one of four UND professors named in the first edition of the World Who's Who in Science. Neel retired from UND after the 1980-81 school year. He died at his Grand Forks home June 22, 1990 at the age of 75.

Neel married Erma Bernice Baugh August 20, 1942 in Lexington, Kentucky. The couple had one son, Joseph Neel, Jr.

Subject/Index Terms

University of North Dakota - Faculty

Administrative Information

Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections

Accruals:

Additional donations made by Joe K. Neel and Paul Kannowski

85-1360

92-1831

98-2242

2000-2478

Access Restrictions: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Source: Joe K. Neel

Acquisition Method: Donation; 84-1347

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Joe K. Neel Papers. OGLMC 1004. Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections. Chester Fritz Library. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid added to Archon in July 2015.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Subject Files],
[Series 3: Project Files],
[Series 4: Oversize Materials],
[Series 5: Photographs],
[Series 6: Slides],
[All]

Series 3: Project Files

This series dates from 1967-1986, and contains documents pertaining to the many research projects with which Neel was associated. Documents in this series include grant applications, contracts, methods, equipment, data, field notes, working papers, maps, tables, graphs, and reports in both draft and final forms. The arrangement of materials within each project has been standardized. Account records, contracts, and/or methodology statements begin each section. Field notes and tabulated data have been placed next, and each section concludes with draft and final reports. Projects have been arranged in chronological order, though some overlap between projects occurs.

The following research projects documented in this series:

* Grand Forks Sewage Lagoons (1967-1978)

* Turtle River, ND (1967-1986)

* Devils Lake, ND (1967-1974)

* Upper Missouri River Basin - Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Project I (1972-1974)

* Upper Missouri River Basin - Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Project II (1975-1978)

* Lake Sallie and the Pelican River Basin, MN (1971-1985)

* Turtle River - A Northern Prarie Stream

Sub-Series A: Grand Forks Sewage Lagoon

Box 3

Folder 20: Project Description and Grants, 1967-1968
Folder 21: Project Description and Grants, 1968-1973
Folder 22: Nutrient Adsorbant Proposal, 1973 and 1978
Folder 23: Methodology and Equipment, ca. 1971
Folder 24: Sewage Technical Committee, Minutes, September 1969-December 1971
Folder 25: Sewage Technical Committee, Minutes, January 1972-August 1973
Folder 26: Account # 4527, [September 1971-February 1974?]
Folder 27: Data and Analysis, 1971-1972
Folder 28: Draft Reports, [1976?]
Folder 29: Draft Report, [1976?]
Folder 30: Final Report, "Anaerobic and Aerobic Treatment of Combined Potato Processing - Municipal Wastes," September 1976

Sub-Series B: Turtle River, Northern Prairie Stream

Box 3

Folder 31: Weather Data, 1967-1980
Folder 32: Precipitation Data, 1968-1978
Folder 33: Precipitation and Runoff, 1967-1978
Folder 34: Rainwater and Snow Analysis, 1972-1974
Folder 35: Ice Coverage, 1970-1976
Folder 36: Surface Water Graphics, 1967-1978
Folder 37: Well Water Analyses, 1972-1974
Folder 38: Streams and Wells Analyses, 1967-1978
Folder 39: PH and Chemical Analyses, 1968-1978
Folder 40: Groundwater Graphics, 1972-1974
Folder 41: Productivity and Algal Coverage, 1971-1978

Box 4

Folder 1: Algae Coverage Figures, 1974-1978
Folder 2: Field Notes, 1967-1976
Folder 3: Field Notes, July 1970-September 1971
Folder 4: Field Notes, October 1971-October 1976 and Field Drawings, May 1972-August 1974
Folder 5: Field Data, 1976-1979
Folder 6: Field Notes, March 1977-June 1979
Folder 7: Benthos Graphics, 1969-1971
Folder 8: Benthos, Part I, 1970-1971
Folder 9: Benthos, Part II, 1969-1973
Folder 10: Benthic Volumes, 1967-1971
Folder 11: Miscellaneous Analyses, 1974
Folder 12: Early Presentation - Miscellaneous, ca. 1980
Folder 13: Maps
Folder 14: Drawings
Folder 15: Preliminary Compilation of Data, folder I
Folder 16: Preliminary Compilation of Data, folder II
Folder 17: Drafts, folder I
Folder 18: Drafts, folder II
Folder 19: Outlining Headings and Sub-headings
Folder 20: Preliminary Draft
Folder 21: Working Draft
Folder 22: Manuscript Draft, folder I
Folder 23: Manuscript Draft, folder II
Folder 24: Advanced Draft
Folder 25: Typed Manuscript, Chapters 1-4
Folder 26: Typed Manuscript, Chapters 5-7
Folder 27: Typed Manuscript, Chapters 8-9 and references
Folder 28: Manuscript Correspondence and Book Reviews, 1984-1986

Sub-Series C: Devils Lake

Box 5

Folder 1: Previous Studies and History
Folder 2: Renewal Proposal, 1971-1972
Folder 3: Correspondence, Memoranda, and Contract, 1972-1974
Folder 4: Account #4513, 1967-1969
Folder 5: Account #4569, June 1972-July 1973
Folder 6: Bacteriology Data, 1967-1968
Folder 7: Test Well Data, 1973-1974
Folder 8: Maps and Overlays
Folder 9: Project Papers, "Limnobiology of Devils Lake, ND," 1967-1969
Folder 10: Project Papers, "Limnobiology of Devils Lake, Chain, ND," 1969-1971
Folder 11: Project Papers, 1969-1979
Folder 12: Student Papers, ca. 1967
Folder 13: "Biodynamics of Water Level Decline and Restoration in the Devils Lake Area, ND," ca. 1971
Folder 14: "The Limnobiology of the Devils Lake Chain, ND," Typescript, Feb 1974
Folder 15: "Limnological Characteristics of the Devils Lake Chain, Effects of Recent Rewatering, and Projected Influences of Garrison Diversion," Typescript [1974]
Folder 16: "Limnological Characteristics of the Devils Lake Chain, Effects of Recent Rewatering, and Projected Influences of Garrison Diversion," Final Draft, 1974

Sub-Series D: Missouri River - Basin Electric Project I

Box 5

Folder 17: Grant Proposal and Preliminary Study, 1972
Folder 18: Correspondence, 1972-1978
Folder 19: Methodology and Equipment, 1972-1974
Folder 20: Account #4960, July 1972-November 1974
Folder 21: Plankton Data, September 1972-November 1972
Folder 22: Plankton Data, December 1972-April 1973
Folder 23: Plankton Data, April 1973-June 1973
Folder 24: Plankton Data, July 1973-October 1973
Folder 25: Chemical and General Data, 1972-1974
Folder 26: Final Report, Drafts, Conclusions, and Correspondence, 1974
Folder 27: Final Report, Manuscript, 1974
Folder 28: Final Report, May 1974

Sub-Series E: Missouri River - Basin Electric Project II

Box 5

Folder 29: Contract and Interim Reports, 1975-1977
Folder 30: Account #4960, April 1975-March 1979
Folder 31: Plankton Data, June 1975-December 1975
Folder 32: Plankton Data, January 1976-October 1976

Box 6

Folder 1: Plankton Totals, 1975-1977
Folder 2: Plankton Totals, 1976-1977
Folder 3: Larger Macrobenthos Totals, 1975-1977
Folder 4: Fish Totals, 1975-1976
Folder 5: Physical/Chemical Totals, 1975-1977
Folder 6: Condensers Totals, 1975-1977
Folder 7: Substrates Totals, 1975-1977
Folder 8: Special Analysis: Metals, Arsenic, & Fluoride Levels, November 1974 and September 1975
Folder 9: Field Notes, Summarized, 1975-1977
Folder 10: Evaluation, Progress Reports, and Reference Texts
Folder 11: EPA Technical Guidance Manuals 316(a) & (b)
Folder 12: Final Report Drafts, 1978
Folder 13: Final Report hypotheses & figures, ca. 1978
Folder 14: Final Report Manuscript, 1978
Folder 15: Final Report, July 1978
Folder 16: Basin Electric Power Cooperative information

Sub-Series F: Lake Sallie and Pelican River Basin

Box 6

Folder 17: Contracts and Proposals, 1971-1972
Folder 18: Grant Application: Weed Harvesting, 1971
Folder 19: Grant Application: Weed Harvesting, 1971
Folder 20: Contracts and Proposals, 1975-1976
Folder 21: Contracts and Proposals, 1977-1979
Folder 22: Account #4539, 1969
Folder 23: Account #4531, 1971 24 Account #4954, 1972-1975
Folder 24: Account #5101-0401, balance sheets, 1972-1979
Folder 25: Account #5101-0401, 1973-1979
Folder 26: Account #4976, 1973-1975
Folder 27: Account #4911-0401, 1974-1979
Folder 28: Account #4911-0401, 1974-1975, 1978
Folder 29: Account #4960, June 1977
Folder 30: Account #0501-0401, 1979-1985
Folder 31: Account #4911-0401, 1980-1984

Box 7

Folder 1: Working Papers, 1971-1972
Folder 2: Working Papers, 1972
Folder 3: Working Papers, 1973
Folder 4: Working Papers, 1974
Folder 5: Working Papers, 1975
Folder 6: Working Papers, 1976
Folder 7: Working Papers, 1977-1978
Folder 8: General File, 1977-1980
Folder 9: Tables and Graphs, 1978-1979
Folder 10: Relief Maps
Folder 11: Discharges, 1968-1975, 1979-1980
Folder 12: Discharge Measurement Notes, 1978-1979
Folder 13: Discharge Measurement Notes, 1978-1979
Folder 14: Discharge Measurement Notes, 1979-1980
Folder 15: Discharge Measurement Notes, 1979-1980
Folder 16: Tabulated Data, 1969-1975
Folder 17: Tabulated Data, 1978-1979
Folder 18: Tabulated Data, 1979-1980
Folder 19: Chemical Records, 1972-1975
Folder 20: Chemical Analysis, 1979-1980
Folder 21: Stabilization Ponds, 1968-1972
Folder 22: Miscellaneous Water Analysis, Detroit Lakes, May-July 1972
Folder 23: Well Locations and Specifications, 1972-1976
Folder 24: Well Water Analysis, 1973-1975
Folder 25: Groundwater Measurements, 1978-1980
Folder 26: Plankton and Chlorophyll, 1976
Folder 27: Plankton Tables, 1975 and 1979

Box 8

Folder 1: Plankton Record, 1975
Folder 2: Plankton Record, 1975
Folder 3: Plankton Record, 1975
Folder 4: Plankton Record, 1977-1978
Folder 5: Plankton Record, 1977-1978
Folder 6: Plankton Record, 1978-1979
Folder 7: Plankton Record, 1978-1979
Folder 8: Plankton Record, 1979
Folder 9: Plankton Record, 1979-1980
Folder 10: OECD Program II, (1974?)-1975
Folder 11: OECD, May 1973-Nov 1975
Folder 12: Reports: Weed Harvesting, Feb 1973
Folder 13: Reports: Lake Sallie Drafts, 1975
Folder 14: Reports: Lake Sallie Drafts, (1975?)
Folder 15: Reports: Lake Sallie Eutrophication Drafts, (1977-1978?)
Folder 16: Reports: "Impact of Special Phosphorus Removal Procedure in the Upper Pelican River Watershed, 1977-1978," Interim Report, Oct 1978
Folder 17: Reports: "Impact of Special Phosphorus Removal Procedures in the Upper Pelican River Watershed, 1978-1979," Second Interim Report, Nov 1979
Folder 18: Reports: "Impact of Special Phosphorus Removal Procedures in the Upper Pelican River Watershed, 1977-1980," Rough Draft
Folder 19: Reports: "Impact of Special Phosphorus Removal Procedures in the Upper Pelican River Watershed, Becker County, Minnesota, 1977-1980," Incomplete Draft, Jun 1981
Folder 20: Reports: "Impact of Special Phosphorus Removal Procedures in the Upper Pelican River Watershed, Becker County, Minnesota, 1977-1980," Typescript, pages 1-95
Folder 21: Reports: "Impact of Special Phosphorus Removal Procedures in the Upper Pelican River Watershed, Becker County, Minnesota, 1977-1980," Typescript, pages 96- 179
Folder 22: Reports: "Mg/Ca Ratio Change as a Measure of Lake Productivity," Draft, 1979
Folder 23: Publications: "Watershed and Point Source Enrichment and Lake Trophic State Index," Review Copy (1978?)
Folder 24: Publications: "Watershed and Point Source Enrichment and Lake Trophic State Index," Final Draft, Jun 1978
Folder 25: External Publications Related to Detroit Lakes Area

Box 9

Folder 1: External Publications Related to Detroit Lakes Area
Folder 2: External Publications Related to Detroit Lakes Area
Folder 3: External Publications Not Specifically Related to Detroit Lakes Area
Folder 4: National Eutrophication Survey Working Papers, Bibliography, 1977

Sub-Series G: Turtle River - A Northern Prairie Stream

Box 9

Folder 5: Scrapbook maintained in album form by JKN that documents testing stations in all seasons, ca. 1972-1982

Box 10

Folder 1: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee
Folder 2: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Beeton, Alfred M.
Folder 3: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Chandler, David C.
Folder 4: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Gaufin, Arden R.
Folder 5: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Gerklin, Shelby D.
Folder 6: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Goodnight, Clarence J.
Folder 7: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Prescott, Jerry W.
Folder 8: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Rattray, Maurice Jr.e
Folder 9: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Saila, Saul B.
Folder 10: ASLO: Education and Recruitment Committee: Sargent, Mortson C.
Folder 11: Garrison Dam Hydro Report: June-December 1975
Folder 12: Garrison Dam Hydro Report: Jamuary-June 1976
Folder 13: Garrison Dam Hydro Report: July-December 1976
Folder 14: Garrison Dam Hydro Report: January- June 1977
Folder 15: Garrison Dam Hydro Report: July-September 1977
Folder 16: Boone Creek Manuscript Carbons: Algae and Macro Benthos
Folder 17: Dow Chemical Company Project
Folder 18: Manuscript Drafts: The Mussels Fauna of the Upper Cumberland Basin Before Impoundment
Folder 19: Mussels Fauna of the Upper Cumberland Basin Prior to Impoundment
Folder 20: Photomicrographs
Folder 21: Potamology draft
Folder 22: Potamology, Working Draft: Untitled
Folder 23: Untitled Writing: Potamology-Science of Streams
Folder 24: Potamology Figures
Folder 25: Untitled Writing: Stream Sources and Stream Discharges
Folder 26: Sanitary Landfill-Langdon
Folder 27: Appleplot Storage Disks (5 1/4 inch floppy)
Folder 28: "Biotic Character as Related to Stream Mineral Content” Transactions of the American Microscopial Society 1973
Folder 29: "A Calibration of the Development of the Chick Under Improved Conditions of Incubation and the Relationship of the Developmental Rate to Age of Hen and Hatchability Record” Poultry Science July 1942
Folder 30: "Certain Limnological Features of a Polluted Irrigation Stream" Transactions of the American Microscopial Society April 1953
Folder 31: "Corixid Transients on Stream Riffles (Hemiptera: Corixidae) The Great Lakes Entomologist 1980
Folder 32: "Experimental Lagooning of Raw Sewage at Fayette, Missouri"Journal of Water Pollution Control Federation June 1961
Folder 33: "Impact of Reservoirs" Limnology in North America 1963
Folder 34: "Interrelations of Certain Physical and Chemical Features in a Headwater Limestone Stream" Ecology July 1951
Folder 35: "An Investigation of Phytoplankton Growth and Relationships in the Cedar River System, Iowa, July 24-28, 1961"
Folder 36: "A Limnological Investigation of the Psammon in Douglas Lake, Michigan, with Especial Reference to Shoal and Shoreline Dynamics" Transactions of the American Microscopial Society January 1948
Folder 37: "The Mussel Fauna of the Upper Cumberland Basin Before its Impoundment" Malacologia
Folder 38: “A Taxonomic Study of Quadrula Quadrula (Rafinesque) Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology September 1941
Folder 39: "Primary Production in Culturally-Enriched Lake Sallie, Minnesota Following Weed Harvest" Annual Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science September 1976
Folder 40: "Reservoir Eutrophication and Dystrophication Following Impoundment"
Folder 41: "Seasonal Succession of Benthic Algae and Their Macro-Invertebrate Residents in a Head-Water Limestone Stream" Journal: Water Pollution Control Federation February 1968
Folder 42: "Impact of Special Phosphorus Removal Procedures" June 1981
Folder 43: "Water Quality in the Missouri River" Journal of the Sanitary Engineering Division Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers February 1958

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