Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

Roman Motyka

Type

Scientist

Organization

University of Alaska Southeast (Juneau)

Description

Tidewater glacier dynamics, thinning of Mendenhall Glacier and disintegration of it calving terminus in Mendenhall lake, up life, isostatic rebound, and plate tectonics in SE AK, contribution of AK glaciers to global sea level raise, Developing ice-load models for Glacier Bay and for the Yakutat Icefield.

Geography

Alaska

Northwest

Website

http://www.uas.alaska.edu/dir/z-arts-sciences-nat-envs-motyka.html

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.