{"id":980,"date":"2011-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-380\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:23","slug":"innovation-anthology-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/03\/01\/innovation-anthology-380\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #380:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 380.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nReclamation ecologist Ann Smreciu has spent the last year learning how to grow native ratroot from both seed and root cuttings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis native plant looks like cattails.  And as Ann presented at the recent CONRAD conference, ratroot is showing a lot of promise for oil sands reclamation of wetlands.\n <\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nANN SMRECIU: <\/b><em>  Once we grow these up we\u2019re trying to get them established in the wetlands that are being created around the oil sands.  There\u2019s a number of ways we\u2019re doing that.  We\u2019re actually planting them into the shorelines of these small wetlands as well as growing them on what we call floating mats.  Naturally acriss or the ratroot grows on these floating mats made up of cattails.  We don\u2019t know how to make those So we\u2019re trying to use synthetic floating mats right now to just see if we can actually get these ratroot to grow in these wetlands.  And later on we\u2019ll look at more organic methodologies.  We actually serendipitously ran into a system that we find might work.  We grew some plants in flats in the greenhouses and realized they had knitted themselves into a mat by themselves.  And we thought well maybe now we can take those natural mats and put them out and see if we can get the same success.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As for the floating test mats, Ann says geese like to nibble on the ratroot tops and muskrat like to pull the plants down through the mats.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02011-03-01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reclamation ecologist <b>Ann Smreciu<\/b> has spent the last year learning how to grow native <b>ratroot<\/b> from both seed and root cuttings.  This native plant looks like cattails.  And as Ann presented at the recent CONRAD conference, ratroot is showing a lot of promise for oil sands reclamation of wetlands.<em> (Syncrude Canada Ltd)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,59,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}