# About the Plant AWG Topics category

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The Plant AWG focuses on plants response to spaceflight, Astrobotany and Astro agriculture with the goal of ensuring sustainable agroecosystems beyond leo earth orbit.

- Plant AWG meets each 2nd Wednesday of each month, alternateing betwee 2pm-3pm or 10-11:30am central time.

Find out more information but our agenda and on-going projects in this gitbook.

> **[Plant AWG Action Plan | Plant AWG](https://osdr.gitbook.io/plant-awg)**
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> The NASA Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) Analysis Working Group (AWG) needs your help!

If you’re interested in collaborating on a project please reach out to Richard Barker ([richard.barker@nasa.gov](mailto:richard.barker@nasa.gov)) so he can help you add to existing projects or to create your own new sub-group to focus on your area of interest.

Below: Word clouds showing some of the challenges for the future of space agriculture that we like to discuss potential solutions for in our regular meetings that would be suitable for further research.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/osdr/original/1X/e4c73b8b607ec638bb351d1ef6bf5141c9a2aa67.png)