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ICYMI – Check out "Wright-Ingraham Institute: Th

ICYMI – Check out "Wright-Ingraham Institute: The Interface between Nature & Culture" – a historical overview of the Wright-Ingraham Institute (WII), as told by original WII Running Creek Field Station alumni and WII board members.⁠ ⁠ Learn about the history and work of the Wright-Ingraham Institute in this informative, short video/portrait documenting the legacy of Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, the Running Creek Field Station, and current and future work in the field.⁠

The Wright-Ingraham Institute explores integrated interfaces between natural and cultural systems that foster critical inquiry and insights into those systems. We are committed to fostering opportunities for the study and articulation of these interfaces by bringing multiple disciplinary points of view together. These take the form of immersive site-based learning exchanges and educational experiences, peer-to-peer research programs, extensive grant giving commitments, and producing conferences, symposia and publications.⁠ ⁠

Link to the video is in our bio - and here:⁠ ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkw17AF3M58⁠

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Tuesday March 8 is the last day to apply to our 20

Tuesday March 8 is the last day to apply to our 2022 Field Stations program this June in the US Southwest.

This immersive program will start out in Albuquerque, NM and travel over the month of June through the shifting landscapes and altitudes to Silverton, CO. The program includes talks, hands-on experiences, research and explorations and will the following foundational topics:

Architecture (designing for context and climate, community involvement, infrastructure, discussions on waste and responsibility)

Geology (deep time, geology of the Southwest US, minerals and society)

Ecology and natural sciences (hydrology, biology, soil science, forest health and process based restoration)

Climate change (environmental transformation and resilience, food, water and energy)

Systems thinking (interconnection, complexity, environmental education)

Landscape dynamics (language of landscape, land-use history and planning, architecture and climate)

Socio-cultural dynamics (politics, economics and political ecology, intersectional race, gender and class dynamics)

Fieldwork principles (ethics, data collection principles, drawing and visualization techniques, comprehension of core issues and stakeholders)

Synthesis and communication (narrative and visualization for different audiences and strategies for implementation)

More info and FAQ on our website.

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Field Stations is an immersive integrative studies

Field Stations is an immersive integrative studies workshop that focuses on climate change in ecologically-critical places. The Wright-Ingraham Institute invites early career candidates and graduate students from all fields to apply to the summer 2022 workshop in the San Juan River Basin (Southwestern United States).

In 2019, the Wright-Ingraham Institute rekindled its original educational mission by hosting a Field Stations workshop in Bogotá, Medellín, and the Middle Magdalena River Valley, Colombia. Ten participants from six different countries, working with a mix of core faculty and visiting specialists, engaged in an interdisciplinary co-learning environment.

Swipe through to get a feel for what participants got to experience and make in the field and apply for the upcoming program in the Southwest via the link in our bio.

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The application deadline for Field Stations 2022,

The application deadline for Field Stations 2022, is extended until March 8, 2022! ⁠
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If you are interested in joining us for a month long immersive workshop through the San Juan Water Basin - follow the link in bio to apply.
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How do river systems connect people and places acr

How do river systems connect people and places across time and space? How can we extend ecological solidarity between different kinds of landscapes connected through water systems?⁠
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We'll address these questions and more in our 2022 Field Stations program, an intensive, itinerant, in-the-field, scholarship-based interdisciplinary workshop focused on climate change in critical places, focused on the San Juan River Basin (CO & NM) in June.⁠
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Apply by February 22, and join us this summer! [Link in bio]⁠
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Image: A black and white photograph of the Animas River, showing a low water level river bed and winding river path through distinctive mountainous terrain. Photo credit: Arielle Milkman.⁠
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We are pleased to announce that applications for o

We are pleased to announce that applications for our Field Stations program for June 2022 are now open! Please help us spread the word. Applications are due February 22 at 11:59 PM MT. For more information and to apply, see link in our bio.

Field Stations is an immersive integrative studies workshop that focuses on climate change and related issues in ecologically-critical places. The Wright-Ingraham Institute invites creatives, early-career candidates, and graduate and post-graduate students from all fields, for whom this topic is crucial to their practice, to apply to the 2022 workshop in the San Juan Basin in Colorado and New Mexico, USA. We will be teaching in collaboration with the Mountain Studies Institute. Participation in this workshop is covered by Wright-Ingraham Institute scholarships.

Field Stations workshops are crafted by a socio-environmentally-focused interdisciplinary group of collaborators, many of whom originate from the architecture and design disciplines. We welcome participants who do not have design backgrounds to learn how visual and design modes of thinking can aid their practice. We hope to push design-oriented participants to think beyond human and visual scales to imagine and address issues related to climate change. This workshop asks participants how exchanges between design, arts, humanities and science communities can shift creative and critical practice.

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IN MEMORIAM: Thomas Lovejoy ⁠ ⁠ Thomas Eugene

IN MEMORIAM: Thomas Lovejoy ⁠
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Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III (1941–2021) was a US ecologist and President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation, and University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. Lovejoy was formerly the World Bank's chief biodiversity advisor and the lead specialist for environment for Latin America and the Caribbean, senior advisor to the president of the United Nations Foundation, the first Biodiversity Chair of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and president of the Heinz Center. Lovejoy introduced the term biological diversity to the scientific community in 1980. He was a past chair of the Scientific Technical Advisory Panel for the Global Environment Facility, the multibillion-dollar funding mechanism to support developing countries in meeting their obligations under international environmental conventions. ⁠
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Thomas Lovejoy was an advisor to the Wright-Ingraham Institute’s 2019 Field Stations program in Colombia, SA. He provided expertise in tropical ecology, debt for nature conservation programs and forest dynamics throughout the Amazon River basin from his studies at Camp 41 near Manaus, Brazil.⁠
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To learn more about Dr. Lovejoy’s important work, please visit:⁠
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https://www.amazonbiodiversitycenter.org⁠
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We're gearing up for another Field Stations progra

We're gearing up for another Field Stations program in 2022, to be based in Colorado.

Learn about our most recent program, which took place in Colombia in 2019.

Visit the publications section of our website to view photo galleries, reports, a trip log, and more. (Link in bio)

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Cheers to many more. We hope you'll consider suppo

Cheers to many more. We hope you'll consider supporting our institute as we bridge the past and future, bringing the Field Stations Program and other interdisciplinary education efforts to a wider and more diverse audience.

Small donations go a long way. Donate via PayPal by visiting the link in our bio.

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The Running Creek Field Station (RCFS) was operati

The Running Creek Field Station (RCFS) was operational under the directorship of WII’s founder, Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, throughout the 1970s.

Our founder worked at the intersection of architecture and ecology, and her work ethic inspires our modern programs.

Learn more about our history and our work by visiting our website's Publications page. (Link in bio)

Learn more about our Field Stations Program by exp

Learn more about our Field Stations Program by exploring our website, which showcases photos, publications, and more from our Colombia workshops.

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If you were a participant in the original Running

If you were a participant in the original Running Creek Field Station program in the 1970s, we would love to hear from you.

Check out more photos that depict the origins of our institute by visiting the Publications section of our website (link in bio).

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It's not too late to support The Wright-Ingraham I

It's not too late to support The Wright-Ingraham Institute in 2021.

The Wright-Ingraham Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) education and research institution, which was established in Colorado in 1970.

We have relied on support from individual donors over the years. Now, we are in a critical growth period as we seek to expand our programs to reach and serve a wider audience. Please consider us for a tax deductible donation during your holiday charitable giving.

You can donate by PayPal or mailed check: https://wright-ingraham.org/donate

We are grateful for the continued support of our n

We are grateful for the continued support of our network, which spans the original Running Creek Field Stations in the 1970s to our more recent Field Stations program in Colombia in 2019, and includes our partner organizations, grant recipients, and virtual event participants across the country.

Thank you for staying in touch with the Wright-Ingraham Institute.

We wish you all a very happy holiday weekend.

The Wright-Ingraham Institute is a small non-profi

The Wright-Ingraham Institute is a small non-profit organization with a modest, ethically-invested endowment.

We rely on vital donor support to help meet our programming needs.

This fall, we are asking our donors to give what they can, to help us to continue our programming and expand our impact.

Please help us meet our current fundraising campaign goal of $30,000 so that we can continue our educational programs, research initiatives, and small grants program.

You can provide a tax-deductible donation by PayPal or mailed check (see link in bio).

SociaLite Lighting Systems (@socialitelightingsys)

SociaLite Lighting Systems (@socialitelightingsys) was selected as a $5,000 Sustaining Grant winner in 2021.

This organization supplies solar powered micro-grids to impoverished communities in less industrialized countries—primarily in Ghana. The micro-grid technology provides opportunities for increased education, communication, and improvement of home businesses, and they also promote entrepreneurship through the manufacture, installation, operation and maintenance of the systems.

Learn more about our current and past grant recipients by visiting the link in our bio.

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Western Slope Conservation Center (@westslopecente

Western Slope Conservation Center (@westslopecenter) was selected as a $5,000 Sustaining Grant winner in 2021.

The Western Slope Conservation Center acknowledges that the Western Colorado lands on which they learn, work, and organize are the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of the Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) peoples.

The center builds an informed and engaged community to protect and enhance the lands, air, water and wildlife of the Western Slope, and in particular, the Lower Gunnison Watershed. This is a diverse and complex landscape that is home to five wilderness areas and numerous towns.

Learn more about our current and past grant recipients by visiting the link in our bio.

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Conservation Lands Foundation (@conservationlands)

Conservation Lands Foundation (@conservationlands) was selected as a winner of one of our $5,000 Sustaining Grants in 2021.

For more than a decade, they've led the only national movement of grassroots advocates to protect, restore and expand National Conservation Lands.

The organization is headquartered in Durango, Colorado with field offices throughout the West and in Washington, D.C.

Learn more about our current and past grant recipients by visiting the link in our bio.

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Environmental Learning for Kids (ELK) (@elk_kids)

Environmental Learning for Kids (ELK) (@elk_kids) was selected as one of our $5,000 Sustaining Grant Winners in 2021.

This Colorado-based organization reaches out to students who have been traditionally overlooked and under-encouraged in science and science-related careers, most notably: youth of color, LGBTQ+, and girls. ELK opens doors by giving youth the opportunity to experience Colorado’s natural world, increase their academic science skills, become involved in their neighborhoods and get exposure to careers in the field of natural resources.

Learn more about our current and past grant recipients by visiting the link in our bio.

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The winner of our Richard T. Parker Grant in 2021

The winner of our Richard T. Parker Grant in 2021 is Southern Plains Land Trust. @southern_plains_land_trust

Executive Director Nicole Rosmarino shared the following upon receiving the $10,000 grant:

"By providing support for our general operations, the Wright-Ingraham Institute is furthering the Southern Plains Land Trust's (SPLT's) mission of creating and protecting shortgrass prairie preserves in the southern Great Plains. With the global call for 30 x 30 - protecting 30% of the Earth's marine and terrestrial ecosystems by 2030 - there is an urgent need across the planet to create such large scale preserves."

Learn more about our current and past grant recipients by visiting the link in our bio.

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We are a small non-profit registered as a 501c3 in Colorado with our head office located in New York. We undertake field work in both the American West, and elsewhere.

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