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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 Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG) Program, 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.

This project is a collaboration between the University of Minnesota (Diana Dalbotten, Emi Ito, Amy Myrbo), Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College (Andrew Wold), and Fond Du Lac Resource Management (Tom Howes, Nancy Schuldt).

Manoomin Posters

2012 Camp Research Projects

• Diatom-Inferred Phosphorus Concentration
• Macrofossils of Bang Lake
• Phytoliths and Pottery

Project Posters

• State Fair 2011
• Howes et al., AGU 2011
• Fond du Lac open house 2011
• Correlating Phytolith and Pollen Data from Wild Rice Lakes

Project Posters

• Diatom Inferred Lake Level and Habitat Transition
• Plant Macrofossil Analysis
• Macrofossil Analysis of Three Wild Rice Lakes
• Palynological Reconstruction of the Late Holocene Flora and Climate Change
• Phytoliths from Food Residues
• Tracing the History of Wild Rice Lakes Through Phytoliths

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.