We help Tribal scientists and all who support them.

Expertise in:

  • The dangers of sulfate to wild rice and the environment

  • Data sovereignty

  • Tribal-academic relationships

  • Core samples for long-term environmental history

  • Diatoms (photosynthetic algae with glass cell walls) on a display of an intern’s microscope.

  • Core samples collected from a Reservation lake. Different colors denote different sediment composition over time, and changes in the environment and lake depth.

  • Deploying ground-penetrating radar (GPR) on a lake on a Reservation in Minnesota to look for evidence of lake level changes in the past.

  • Core samples from a lake that have been “pooped out” of the coring device for exploration by children and families at an event.

  • Youth heading out to the core sampling headquarters out on a frozen lake on a Reservation in Minnesota.

  • Deploying ground-penetrating radar (GPR) on a lake on a Reservation in Minnesota to look for evidence of lake level changes in the past.

Amy Myrbo is an ex-academic Earth scientist specializing in lakes and their sediments. She has worked with Tribal resource managers, youth, and leadership on Tribally-driven scientific projects since 2007. From 2002-2019 she helped build and operate LacCore and CSDCO, two multi-user facilities at the University of Minnesota funded by the National Science Foundation, and was the Director of Outreach, Diversity, and Education for the last five of those years. She was a lead on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s Sulfate Standard to Protect Wild Rice study, leading the massive field operation.

Since becoming an independent consultant in 2019, she has collaborated with Tribal resource managers and THPOs to spearhead the use of environmental DNA in lake sediment core samples to understand the history and modern distribution of wild rice - starting with consultation with Tribes across the western Great Lakes region.

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