NASA Workshop to Study Climate Change in Native Communities

From Nov. 18-21, NASA will hold its second national strategies workshop to examine the impacts of climate change and extreme weather variability on Native peoples and their homelands.

The workshop, which will take place at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minn., is being held in collaboration with the nation's 36 tribally-controlled colleges and universities, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and other partners.

The goal is to examine the impacts of climate change from an indigenous cultural, spiritual and scientific perspective to help ensure the survival of Native communities.

"This workshop will bring Native indigenous knowledge together with science, education and technologies to address the challenges of climate and environmental change," said Nancy Maynard of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

For more information about the workshop, visit: www.nativepeoplesnativehomelands.org.