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Manoomin Project
Investigating the past, present, and future of wild rice lakes on the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe Reservation
This five-year project (2009-2014), funded by the National Science Foundation, uses core samples from the bottoms of six lakes on the Fond du Lac Reservation to reconstruct the historical distribution and abundance of wild rice (manoomin, Zizania palustris) in six lakes on the Fond du Lac Reservation, and will connect this record with sedimentary indicators of lake level, nutrient conditions, and substrate composition, as well as with oral history and land use records. Tribal college, high school, and junior high students and their teachers conduct field work and laboratory research with guidance from University of Minnesota scientists, Fond du Lac Resource Management staff, and others.
The project does not involve research on the genetics of wild rice.
Links
- Lake coring in Glacier National Park
- Manoomin program students get a glimpse 10,000 years into the past
- Poster for Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (PDF, 14.3MB) (presented by Amy Myrbo and Tom Howes, Wednesday afternoon, November 3, 2010, in the Geoscience Ed session, booth #46)
- Poster: Junior high and high school students' research internship week at LacCore (PDF, 487KB)
- Article about the project from September 2010 Fond du Lac Reservation newspaper Nah gah chi wa nong Di bah ji mowin nan by Tom Howes and Amy Myrbo (see page 13) (PDF, 2.4MB)
- Poster: results from 2010 summer internships (PDF, 41.3MB)
- The awesome manoomin blog.
- Poster (PDF, 10.1MB) from Northstar STEM Alliance 2010 Kickoff
- Project summary (PDF, 164KB) from NSF proposal
For more information contact Amy Myrbo.
