A list of ideas for research papers (not a comprehensive list)

• Impacts of shoreline development on lake water quality, etc.
• Potential for creating carbon credits in Minnesota
• The BWCA history, current issues, the blowdown area
• Exotics in northern Minnesota or the Great Lakes
• Issuing an air permit for a taconite facility (coal-fired power plant, etc.)
• The impact of the Clear Skies Initiative on coal-fired power plant emissions in Minnesota
• The Chippewa - Relations with the environment in northern Minnesota
• Impact of fish consumption (or advisories) on Native Americans
• Mercury deposition in northern Minnesota - past and future trends
• Fish consumption advisories - how are they developed, how does MN compare to other states, are they useful, etc.
• Ecological consequences of forestry activites in Minnesota (too broad)
• Impact of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion (Global warming, acid rain) on Forests (or lakes) - topic would have to be more specific than this
• Electrical generation in Minnesota
• Wind energy in Minnesota - potential for development
• Impacts of road salt on lakes
• Earthworm invasion in northern Minnesota and environmental impacts
• Global Warming - impact on fish communities or stream ecology or lake ecology or soil moisture or ...
• The St. Louis River - impact of dams
• History of dioxins in the Rainy River
• The Interlake Superfund Site - Cap or Dredge?
• Impact of "bouncing" reservoir levels on mercury levels in Thomsen Reservoir
• Mercury in loons in Minnesota - spatial and temporal trends
• Sustainable forest practices in Minnesota
• Investigate relations between wetland area and mercury in fish
• What is a TMDL and how does it impact water quality
• What is (or was) New Source Review?
• The Clean Air Act and emissions from power plants
• Alternative energy: future in Minnesota, etc
• How does fish stocking impact the ecology of a lake?
• Is there a liberal bias to the media? (topic must incorporate an environmental issue relevant to northern Minnesota)
• Environmental writers of northern Minnesota
• Many Great Lakes issues - Zebra mussels and other exotic species, PCBs and other contaminants, decreasing water levels