Gordon Brent INGRAM
321 Railway Street #108, Vancouver V6A 1A4 CANADA
email: studio[the at symbol]gordonbrentingram.ca | gordon_brent_ingram1966[the at symbol]yahoo.ca
curriculum vitae
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Gordon Brent INGRAM
321 Railway Street #108, Vancouver V6A 1A4 CANADA
email: studio[the at symbol]gordonbrentingram.ca | gordon_brent_ingram1966[the at symbol]yahoo.ca
curriculum vitae
PDF file available: gordon-brent-ingram-curriculum-vitae-8-2010
I am focused on developing and evaluating innovative environmental planning and design methods to create and expand networks of parks, open space and other protected areas as part of sustainable economic and social development and have expertise in research and teaching in the following fields:
· strategies for transitions to sustainability and the role of ecological, social and cultural infrastructure in the development of metropolitan areas with an emphasis on open space, habitat, agriculture and cultural facilities;
· more inclusive urban planning and design frameworks related to outdoor and public space and responses to social inequities and conflicts (related to access, safety, comfort and equity – often involving social groups defined by gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, & culture);
· integration of knowledge, perspectives and priorities of tribal and other traditional communities into broader frameworks of land use decision-making;
· sexual minorities, neighbhourhoods, and urban public space;
· conservation of heritage landscapes and neighbourhoods;
· stakeholder analysis as part of environmental planning;
· public art as part of urban open space planning & design (and neighbourhood development);
· site planning for environmentally sensitive areas;
· forest and biodiversity conservation and restoration strategies with research and analysis employing linked digital technologies such as remote sensing, geographic information systems, decision-support and digital design tools;
· applications of landscape ecology, and related natural and social science research methods, for environmental planning and land management;
· policy development and cross-sectoral planning as part of implementation of international agreements especially the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Heritage Convention, and the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
· field research and analytical methods for environmental histories especially as part of environmental impact analysis; and
· photographic documentation of communities, environmental conflicts & urban design issues.
detail in a pavilion, Hiran Minar, Sheikapura, Pakistan, January 2004, photograph by Gordon Brent Ingram
· islands, coastal areas and remaining forested mountains in the Pacific Rim particularly in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, China and more remote parts of the Pacific coast of Canada
· the Sahel of west Africa and, in particular, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and northern Cameroon
· the Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to California
· recent work in Pakistan and nearby in the south-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Oman and the United Arab Emirates
Fountain at dusk, Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, February 2004 photograph by Gordon Brent Ingram
University of California, Berkeley, 1989, Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Planning, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design.
examination fields
· Theories of environmental planning and organizational development for conservation of biological diversity and respective habitat and open space
· Environmental impact assessment
· Environmental policy and planning frameworks for island ecosystems with pressures for conservation, logging, tourism and socio-economic development
Ph.D. dissertation
Planning district networks of protected habitat conservation of biological diversity: A manual with applications for marine islands with primary rainforest. Available through University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan as dissertation 9006370. Dissertation abstract available in a PDF file: gordon-brent-ingram-phd-dissertation-abstract1
case studies in doctoral research
· Burnaby Island, Gwaii Haanas, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada
· Siberut Island, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia
· Fergusson Island, D’Entrecasteaux Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
doctoral committee
· Richard Meier, Professor (now Emeritus), Department of City and Regional Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture / Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, Berkeley
· Ray Dasmann, Professor (now Emeritus), Environmental Studies Board, University of California at Santa Cruz
· Bill Lidicker, Professor (now Emeritus), Environmental Sciences, and Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley
· Robert Twiss, Professor (now Emeritus), Department of Landscape Architecture, Berkeley
additional doctoral research
· Early exploration (in the early 1980s) of the implications of landscape ecology for landscape architecture, regional planning, and sustainability (professors with the most influence: Bill Lidicker and Ray Dasmann)
· Design of networks of open space as part of community planning (professor with the greatest influence: Eldon Beck the original designer of Whistler, British Columbia)
· Design and development of some of the first geographic information systems for biodiversity conservation emphasizing fine-scaled spatial data (beginning in 1983 with the first SUN Workstations used by environmental management GIS and using of UNIX, C, Pascal and GRASS, and early ESRI ARC INFO software) (most influential professor: Dr. Robert Twiss who designed early GIS for regional planning in such areas as Lake Tahoe, California / Nevada)
· Assessment of use and social conflict in parks (professor with the greatest influence: Clare Cooper-Marcus)
· Landscape aesthetics and related frameworks for urban and landscape design (professor with the greatest influence: Burt Litton the founder of the United States Forest Services visual resources analysis programmes)
· Photographic documentation of landscapes and communities
· Conservation planning theory and institutional analysis (professor with the most influence: Jeff Romm)
Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio / San Francisco campus), Master of Science in Ecosystem Management. Concentration: Rural and wildland planning.
M.Sc. thesis Fragments: Management, protection and restoration proposals for thirteen ecological reserves in British Columbia, Canada. A report to the Ecological Reserves Committee and Advisory Board of the Ministry of Landscape, Parks and Housing of the Government of BC, June 1981. Thesis available through University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, thesis number 1317516. Thesis abstract available in a PDF file: ingram-1981-fragments-management-protection-and-restoration-proposals-for-thirteen-ecological-reserves-in-british-columbia
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Photography with an emphasis on documentation of landscapes, communities and environmental conflicts. The major teachers were: Reagan Louie author of the 1991 Aperture book, Towards a Truer Life, portraying urban space in China after the Cultural Revolution; Linda Connor author of Solos; and Ellen Brooks.
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies with related studies in environmental design and aesthetics.
school
· New Community School, Oakland, California, 1, secondary school graduation focused on preparation for entry to university and related activism and scholarship.
· Oak Bay Junior Secondary School, Victoria, British Columbia - Honour Roll.
· Willows Elementary School, Victoria, British Columbia.
· Brentwood Bay Elementary School, Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.
garden workers, Tchintoulous, November 1985 from the 1991 photoessay, Gardens of Despair: Tuareg responses to desertification, Aïr Mountains, Niger / Jardins De Désespoir: Réaction des Tuaregs devant l’expansion du désert, montagne de l’Aïr, Niger, Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery, London, 16 inch x 20 inch black and white photograph by Gordon Brent Ingram
· Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Anthology (with Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter): 1998.
· Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts: 1998.
· Canada Council Grants*: 1981, 1994, 1995 - 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004.
· Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Bahasa Indonesia), United States Department of State: 1987 - 1988.
· University of California Regents Fellowships: 1981 - 1983.
· British Columbia Cultural Fund Scholarships: 1978 - 1979, 1979 - 1980, 1981 - 1982.
* The Canada Council for the Arts is the main government funding agency for the arts in the country. ‘Grants’ are considered awards and are determined through changing juries of peers. As well as receiving 7 Canada Council grants in 20 years, I have participated in two juries for individual and exhibition proposals for architecture, landscape architecture and urban design.
· Pakistan: 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007.
· United Arab Emirates & Oman: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
· Bangladesh: 2000.
· Brunei & Philippines: 1994.
· China: 1991, 1993.
· Sahel of West Africa: Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso & Cameroon 1984 to 1986.
· Yemen 1984.
· Indonesia 1982, 1986, 1987 to 1991.
· California 1978 to 1983, 1998.
· British Columbia 1974 to 1982, 1989 to present.
Pavilion, Hiran Minar, Sheikupura, Pakistan, January 2004
photography by Gordon Brent Ingram
· Urbanization (of Dubai and Abu Dhabi) and the more traditional cultural landscapes of the northern United Arab Emirates and Oman 2003 to present.
· Historic and contemporary open space in Pakistan and India with an emphasis on the Salt Range of the northern Punjab and relict gardens from the Moghul period, 2000, 2001, 2004.
· Aboriginal cultural landscapes of the British Columbia coast with a focus on Garry oak ecosystems and sites such as Mount Maxwell, Salt Spring Island and Haida Gwaii on the North Coast, 1974 to present (with work on Mount Maxwell beginning in 1978).
· Green roofs especially in western parts of North America, 1999 to present.
· New and historic open space and urban design projects in the Netherlands and in Venice, 1999.
· Archived designs and files of San Francisco-based landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church (with some field work), 1998.
· Public art of Helen and Newton Meyer Harrison, particularly the work, California Wash, Santa Monica, 1997.
· Strategic public spaces of sexual minorities, 1980 to 1982, 1993 to present.
· China particularly palace and Buddhist temple architecture in the mountains of the subtropical south 1991, 1993.
· Islamic gardens of southern Spain 1992.
· Java, Indonesia particularly public garden, water palaces, and reconstructed Hindu shivite temples 1988 to 1991.
· Orchards and field gene banks of France 1986.
· West African garden vernacular and responses to desertification 1984, 1985, 1986.
· Italian open space, piazzas, and gardens 1983 to 1987, 1990, 1994, 1995.
· Environmental schoolyards in California 1981 and 1982.
dry summer scene, Mount Maxwell Ecological Reserve, August, 1993
photography by Gordon Brent Ingram
Associate Dean for Environmental Projects and Sustainability and Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia early 2006 to present, with responsibilities including:
o co-facilitating of and providing administrative support for the campus-wide task on policy development for sustainability;
o development of the university’s program for a nation-wide environmental monitoring program, NEON, including developing a program and site plan for a nature reserve on the Fairfax campus;
o coordination of proposals for the development of a research and teaching facility on estuarine ecosystems at Belmont Bay, Virginia;
o participation in the university’s Middle East Research Group; and
o teaching in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy with the following graduate course developed and taught:
• Ecological Design for Sustainable Communities;
• Biodiversity Conservation, Local Communities and Sustainable Development;
• Environmental Issues for the Twenty-First Century; and
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Biodiversity Conservation (including development of an associated research laboratory for geomatics for biodiversity conservation).
Associate Dean for Campus Development, Ras Al Khaimah (United Arab Emirates) and Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 2005 to early 2006, with responsibilities including:
o policy development for its first international campus in the Middle East;
o coordinating academics and curriculum transfer and development George Mason University’s Middle East campus including being Executive Secretary for the Working Group on Academic Programs at George Mason University with proposals for undergraduate, graduate and professional offerings in business, nursing, biology, electronic and computer engineering, environmental science and policy, geosciences and geomatics, fine arts, and education, and Arabic language, Islamic and Middle East Area studies;
o campus planning extending to environmental planning and design and related issues of sustainability and access;
o monitoring, implementation and partial supervision of faculty hiring, facilities development including laboratories, academic programs such as advising and instructor evaluations, university life and equity programs;
o serving on the university’s Senior Management Committee;
o teaching in the Virginia-based, Department of Environmental Science and Policy with the following graduate course developed and taught:
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Biodiversity Conservation and
• Ecological Design for Sustainable Communities; and
o co-development and coordination of a campus-wide seminar for 2006 & 2007, ‘Going Global: The ethics and politics of a George Mason University campus in the Middle East’.
Senior Urban Planner and Visiting Associate Professor, 2003 & 2004 with ongoing involvement, Institute of Urban and Regional Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Design, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates developing and teaching two graduate courses:
along with advising on aspects of environmental management, sustainability and social policy in the development of this major new centre for sustainability for the Middle East. An additional responsibility was to review budgetary and development needs along with research into potential funding sources.
Environmental Planner, 2001 to present, based in Vancouver working in side stream environmental design focused on the following projects:
· co-founder GOERT (Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team) 1999 to 2002, founding co-chair of its Conservation Planning & Site Protection Recovery Action Group. This work has been for the remaining habitats of the relatively dry, south-facing sites in the extreme south-west of Canada – in which I was born and raised. Because of growing pressures for urbanisation and the desirability of these sunny sites for development of affluent housing, there are now over 100 endangered species. There are a growing number of conflicts around threatened habitats, housing, and management of domestic gardens, city parks and remaining neighbourhood open space. My work has been to be the lead, in this federal / provincial / local government / nongovernmental task force, on spatial planning and development of conservation priorities combined with site planning and residential design guidelines;
· development of what was intended to be a five year project with a set of field-oriented courses as part of capacity-building in forest biodiversity conservation in Pakistan, linked to poverty alleviation, in cooperation with the Pakistan Forest Institute and WWF-Pakistan, Peshawar with development of a large report through research, field work, interviews, analysis of educational faculty and resources, budgetary analysis of educational institutions, and formulation of recommendations;
· survey and assessment of Moghal gardens and historic landscapes and neighbourhoods in the Punjab of Pakistan;
· completion of book manuscripts:
· projects on ecosystem management and restoration of private lands.
Senior Lecturer, 2001 & 2002, Restoration of Natural Systems Program, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, developing and teaching the course,
· Environmental Restoration 331: Urban Ecosystem Restoration
· with subsequent supervision of research on management and restoration of aboriginal food production landscapes in Garry oak ecosystems
Associate Professor, Universitair Hoofddocent with permanent contract, 1999 to 2001, International Institute for Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. As an environmental planner second in charge of a Division, my responsibilities focused on forest conservation as part of community development for students from developing countries on scholarship. The work took place in The Netherlands, Canada, China, Bangladesh, and Pakistan with the main responsibilities being development of postgraduate-level courses, supervision of research in remote areas, review of scientific literature and development of lectures and audiovisual presentations, management of budgets and personnel, analysis and writing reports, development of policy recommendations, building research networks, and organization of scientific meetings.
courses called “modules”
· Forest Degradation & Rehabilitation (2000)
· Research Preparedness (for M.Sc. thesis research) (2000)
· Forest Biodiversity Assessment & Conservation (2000)
regular lectures
· “Local biodiversity: Shifting biogeographies at the landscape level” & “Endemism, invasions & island biogeography” (for Biodiversity mapping & modelling)
· “Tradeoffs analysis in biodiversity conservation” (for Modelling land use alternatives)
working groups
· Conflict resolution
· Forest conservation and restoration (in early phase of formation)
research
· China, subtropical Yunnan province, 2000: forest biodiversity conservation geographic information systems linked to land use planning
· Bangladesh, Sundarban mangroves near the Bay of Bengal, 2000: remote sensing to detect forest loss and degradation linked to more site-specific management
· Pakistan, remaining dry forest, Salt Range in northern Punjab province, 2000: conservation planning for a national park comprising of larger fragments of forest based on satellite imagery, field work and assessment of local communities
Administrative Analyst (second in charge of the Department), 1998, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning - assisting the interim Chair, Peter Walker, in curriculum development for revised and expanded graduate and graduate programmes including
· working through a range of levels of department administration;
· reviewing and correcting unresolved personnel and budgetary problems (and conflicts);
· expansion of the archives of the Department and College of Environmental Design as part of increased research including supervision of the Thomas Dolliver Church Collection;
· development and coordination of an expanded lecture series; and
· teaching a seminar for graduate students in contemporary theoretical debates in landscape architecture and environmental planning.
Environmental Planner, 1994 to 1997, as consultant working in side stream environmental design for development and management of a wide range of projects involving ecological design, research, and policy. The focus was on design and planning of networks of parks and open space — and related conservation of habitat, visual, and heritage resources — along with assertion of criteria for ecological design and more socially viable public space as well as more public art. Projects mainly in British Columbia with some missions in New York City, Rome, and Brunei / Philippines.
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Polling Agent in 1997 Federal Canadian election supervising polling station and counting of ballots for a high-density block in the Yaletown neighbourhood of Vancouver.
Parenting, 1994 - 1996 and part-time projects, often home-based, while caring for my baby daughter.
Assistant Professor, 1989 - 1994, The University of British Columbia, Landscape Architecture Program and Department of Forest Resources Management. The responsibilities included development and teaching of 6 undergraduate and graduate courses, supervision of students and other researchers including field work in remote areas, development and management of interdisciplinary teams (including in a computer laboratory for environmental management), building research networks, organization of scientific and other scholarly meetings, development of policy recommendations, obtaining funding for and managing innovative research projects on environmental planning and management, report writing, and photographic documentation.
courses
· Wildland Recreation Site Planning (undergraduate)
· Open Space Planning (undergraduate)
· Visual Resources Management (undergraduate)
· Environmental Analysis for Site Planning (graduate)
· Landscape Ecology and Management (graduate)
· Seminars in landscape photographic documentation, environmental art, environmental planning theory (undergraduate)
· Forest and Land Use History (theory and methods of environmental, forest land use, and conservation planning; applied landscape ecology) (graduate)
development and management of field projects in
· Indonesia
· China
· the Sahel of Africa
administration
· Coordinator for the Landscape Ecology Geographic Information Systems Laboratory. 1990 to 1994. PDF copy of 1991 progress report available: ingrams-landscape-ecology-gis-lab-at-ubc-2-1991-progress-report
· Member of committee on social aspects of Forestry, Department of Forest Resources Management, 1989 and 1990.
· Principal organizer of Faculty of Forestry-sponsored symposium, “Landscape approaches to landscape and ecosystem management”, UBC, May 1990.
· Member of the Faculty of Agriculture Committee on an Environmental Studies Degree Programme, early 1991.
· Research Associate, Centre for Southeast Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 1991 to 1994.
· Coordinator of international exchanges, Landscape Architecture Program, UBC. 1992 and 1993.
· Member of the UBC Faculty Association Ad Hoc Committee on Lesbian and Gay Issues and Member of the UBC Lesbian and Gay Studies Group, 1991 to 1994.
The position did not become permanent and the lab and courses were largely phased out by 1994-95.
Lecturer, 1989, Environmental Studies Board, University of California at Santa Cruz.
undergraduate courses
· The Idea of Planning
· Environmental Assessment
Environmental Planner, 1988 – 1989, with research projects, related to dissertation research, for WWF-Australia and University of California on forest conservation planning for small islands in the Pacific Rim.
Research Associate, 1988, Environment and Policy Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu in the Workshop on Biological Diversity and National Parks, 1987 & in the Workshop on Social Forestry in the Pacific Rim.
Environmental Planner / Ecologist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) based in Rome with numerous missions in Europe, the Sahel countries of west Africa, Yemen and Indonesia, with the principal responsibilities being field research in remote areas often in difficult conditions with civil instability, development and management of interdisciplinary teams, building research networks and related diplomacy, organization of scientific meetings, development of policy recommendations, analysis and report compilation, development of training and orientation sessions for field researchers and national counterparts, and photographic documentation focused on the following projects:
· development and management field studies with ecogeographical surveying for wild relatives of crops along with species with fibre, forage and medicinal genetic resources with numerous missions;
· policy analysis (partially based on scientific reviews) for further development of programs of protected areas and other forms of in situ conservation for wild plant genetic resources (sometimes involving park status);
· policy analysis (partially based on scientific reviews) of theory and status of management of traditional agricultural landscapes (often involving park status);
· development of data base and geographic information systems protocols;
· member of the Ad hoc Committee on the In situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources of the Ecosystem Conservation Group of the UN technical organizations with IUCN and the CGIAR (1984 to 1986) with meetings in Rome, Paris and Geneva with liaison meetings in Washington and London. Participation was through the Food and Agriculture Organization with research funding from the CGIAR; and
· liaising with other United Nations agencies particularly UNESCO & UN Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), WWF, and the US Department of Agriculture.
Reserve Designer / Environmental Planner, The Nature Conservancy, California Field Office, 1983, for the following endangered plants and habitats:
· Engelman oak, Quercus Engelmanii, woodland, vernal pools, riparian forest, and over ten endangered species in the Santa Rosa Mountains of the Santa Rosa Mountains;
· palm oasis, Washingtonia filifera, ecosystems and several endangered desert species including the endangered lizard, Uma inornata, in the Coachella Valley; and
· the habitats of over ten endangered plant species including the few remaining natural groves of Monterey pine, Pinus radiata
· with responsibilities including
· review of scientific and legal material on these species and ecosystems;
· assessment of economic context and development pressures;
· development of strategies for combining conservation with economic development; and
· development of advisory reports with maps on key issues and sites along with conservation planning concepts related to often expensive parcels of land.
Teaching Assistant, 1982, University of California, Berkeley.
course
Ecological Analysis in Landscape Design.
Adjunct faculty, 1981 and 1982, Ecosystems Management Program, Antioch College (San Francisco campus)
courses
· Ecosystem Assessment (graduate)
· Wildland Preservation and Management (undergraduate)
· Environmental Impact Analysis (graduate)
· Habitat Protection and Restoration (undergraduate)
· Environmental Systems Design and Management (graduate)
· Environmental Photographic Documentation (undergraduate)
· Undergraduate and graduate advising including supervision of study plans, supervision bachelor degree projects, and M.A. and M.Sc. theses.
Land Use Planner / Habitat Protection Biologist on contract to the Ecological Reserves Unit, Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing, Province of British Columbia, 1979 – 1980, with the following responsibilities:
· reviewing and assessing the terms of the 1971 provincial Ecological Reserves Act,
· field surveys of a number of hastily established ecological reserves;
· assessment of initial biological diversity and landscape conservation goals in the design and formalisation of the protected area boundaries – including designs that were causing management problems;
· analysis of condition of ecosystems and species with some initial mapping;
· development and proposing of first longer-term protection, management and restoration goals for those ecological reserves; and
· outlining the management needs to support those goals.
Habitat Protection Biologist, Old-Growth Forest Protection Project, Inventory Branch, Ministry of Forests, Province of British Columbia, Victoria, 1978 – 1979 with responsibilities in
· conducting the first comprehensive review of Ministry responsibilities for conserving old-growth forest for wildlife particularly ungulates, Grizzly bear and salmonid fisheries;
· reviewing the forest cover maps and annual allowable cut calculations for the Public Sustained Yield Units (PSYUs) of the BC coast and southern interior;
· developing forest cover maps and marked aerial photographs based on field work in remote parts of the British Columbia coast; and
· development of first assessment of old-growth preservation areas for these management units.
Teaching Assistant, Britannia Secondary School, Vancouver, 1977 – 1978 with responsibilities in
· supervising young adolescents with learning and emotional disabilities in basic course work often organized as special needs tutorials and
· supervision of physical education requirements that often were combined with walking field trips related to environmental education.
Executive Secretary, Services and Activities Board, 1975 – 1976, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. This was roughly equivalent to student body president and responsibility for administering an annual budget of over US$400,000 and included the following responsibilities:
· providing administrative services to the appointed student board that made funding decisions around student services moneys from services, recreation to cultural and environmental programmes;
· assessment of needs and priorities of student body with information provided to board members; and
· communication of budgetary decisions to a wide range of offices and organizations.
Habitat Protection Technician, 1974, Fish and Wildlife Branch, Department of Recreation and Conservation, Government of British Columbia on first government study on wildlife requirements for old-growth Coastal Hemlock forest and the impacts of clearcut logging, Skidegate Plateau on Haida Gwaay (Queen Charlotte Islands).
clearcut adjacent to Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway line, February 1990,
photograph by Gordon Brent Ingram
· Advising on the restoration of the historical landscape and native forests of the park for the Moghal hunting lodge, Hiran Minar, Sheikupura, Pakistan, 2004 to present.
· Advising to the Leadership for Environment and Development Organisation (LEAD) – Lahore, Pakistan, 2002, on environmental education for elementary and secondary school teachers and decision-making frameworks in restoration of urban ecosystems.
· Urban designer on the City of Vancouver Public Art Committee, appointed by City Council. 1999 & 2000.
· The Canada Council for the Arts, jury member in review of proposals for Institutional Programmes in Visual Arts and Architecture, 1999.
· The Canada Council for the Arts, review of proposals for Institutional Programmes in Architecture, 1997.
· Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, dissertation review, 1996.
· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (of Canada), proposal review, 1995.
· Greater Vancouver Regional District, advising on landscape ecology, restoration ecology, and site planning for the south end of Wreck Beach, 1995.
· Scientific advisor, Italian Nature Map Project of the Institute of Ecology, University of Parma and the Italian Ministry of Environment, 1994.
· Advisor to the Mamaleleqala Qwe’qwq’sot’ Enox Band, Campbell River, British Columbia on development and conservation planning for the Broughton Archipelago Provincial Park, 1993.
· Collaborator and advisor, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Direccion de Recursos Naturales y Turismo for development of a framework for conservation planning on small off-shore islands with a geographic information system component, 1993.
· British Columbia Ministry of Forests Research Branch, research submissions and consultations on forest conservation, 1992 to 1994.
· Selection Committee for CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) Awards for Canadians, Canadian Bureau for International Education, Ottawa, 1992 to 1995.
· Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (of Canada), proposal review, 1992.
· Co-organizer of Technical Group on the In situ Conservation of Genetic Resources - An international scientific exchange under the auspices of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union), 1992.
· The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland - Co-organizer on a consultant basis for technical advice, rapporteur and administration for Workshop IV.6 Managing Protected Areas to Conserve Genetic Resources, IV WORLD CONGRESS ON NATIONAL PARKS AND PROTECTED AREAS, Caracas, Venezuela, February, 1992.
· World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, England -Research consultant on status of in situ conservation of crops and wild relatives of crops - World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, England, 1991 and 1992.
· Technical advisor on geographic information systems to WILD Project of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Vancouver, 1991 to 1993.
· Exhibitor in a series at the Royal Institute of British Architects on more ecological approaches to design and planning, 1991.
· Member of Ecological Research and Inventory Team of the Old Growth Strategy Task Force, Ministry of Forests, 1990 and 1991.
· Member of the Canadian Society for Landscape Ecology and Management Secretariat Standing Committee, 1990 and 1991.
· Project advisor, Environmental Management Development in Indonesia. Administered through Dalhousie University, Halifax and CIDA, 1990 and 1991.
· Conservation biology consultant to the World Wildlife Fund of Australia on sensitive shore and rainforest habitats on the islands off-shore of New Guinea, 1988 and 1989. Researcher on the conservation biology of New Guinea off-shore islands, Biology Department, University of Papua, New Guinea, 1989 and 1990.
· Member of the Ad hoc Committee on the In situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources of the Ecosystem Conservation Group of the UN technical organizations with IUCN and the CGIAR (1984 to 1986) with meetings in Rome, Paris and Geneva with liaison meetings in Washington and London. Participation was through the Food and Agriculture Organization with research funding from the CGIAR.
· Radio host, weekly programme on regional and international politics, culture and music, KAOS ‘chaos’ radio, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 1975 - 1976.
· Researcher, New Democratic Party Caucus supervised by Bob Skelly, MLA, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in its first New Democratic Party (‘labour’) government on environmental corruption of a previous government in the nineteen fifties around development of new policy for regulation of the logging and mining industries, 1975 - 1976.
· Chair, Political Action Committee, New Community School, Oakland, California, 1971 - 1972.
tiles, Shrine of Baha-ud-Din Zakaria, Multan, Pakistan 3 March 2007,
photograph by Gordon Brent Ingram
2004 – 2005 Lecture and research in United Arab Emirates and Oman on new approaches to conservation and restoration of heritage landscapes and neighbourhoods as contemporary site-based cultural production
CDN$2,000.
2002 – 2003 Lecture series at the Quaid College and urban public space and public art design charette, Lahore, Pakistan, Canada Council for the Arts.
CDN$2,000.
1999 Creation / Production Grant in Architecture for
designs & writing in landscape architecture &
public art, Canada Council.
CDN$15,000.
1998 Travel Grant in (landscape) architecture criticism.
Canada Council.
CDN$1,000.
1998 Grant from Graham Foundation for Advanced
Studies in the Fine Arts for the writing of article
and book manuscripts on landscape architecture,
public art and critical social theory.
US$5,000.
1997 Critics and Curators Travel Grant, Canada
Council for conference speaking and research
on landscape aesthetics and ecologically
oriented public art - Toronto and Los Angeles.
CDN$1,122.
1995 Explorations Program Grant for Queersville Project
for completion of anthology, Queers in Space: Communities | Public Places | Sites of Resistance and development of a curatorial concept and framework for a series of exhibitions of descriptions and new designs for public space, Canada Council.
CDN$14,400.
1995 Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation -
(application as Karen Vagelatos and Ingram): Native
plants for residential landscapes: Design and
management guidelines for southwestern British Columbia.
CDN$20,000.
1994 Canada Council, Residencies Abroad in
Architecture for Development of photoessay and
book project Dall oscurita all oscurita:
The ecology of imagery, ideology, and public
open space in Rome.
CDN$10,000.
1993 Canada-Asean Centre (University of Toronto -
York University) Canada-Southeast Asia Policy
Paper Grant: Implications of the Convention on
Biological Diversity for institutional development
in Indonesia and Malaysia.
CDN$10,000.
1992 International Development Research Centre
(IDRC of Canada), Designs for biodiversity
conservation geographic information systems
for nature reserves with remaining subtropical
and tropical forest in China.
CDN$10,620.
1992 IDRC, Geographic information systems for
biosphere reserves in subtropical China.
CDN$11,000.
1992 Province of British Columbia Ministry of
Advanced Education, Training and Technology:
Biodiversity and GIS of Eastern Islands
(Indonesia) Project.
CDN$5,000.
1991 British Columbia Ministry of Forests and
and Lands, Tofino Creek Biodiversity Study,
Clayoquot Sound (the west coast of Vancouver
Island).
CDN$7,170.
1991 Canada House, London, UK for the exhibition of the
photoessay, “Gardens of Despair: Tuareg responses to
desertification, Aïr Mountains, Niger” at the Royal
Institute of British Architects, London.
CDN$500.
1989 British Columbia Scholars in China Grant,
Province of British Columbia, for ecological
monitoring in biosphere reserves with humid forest.
CDN$2,000.
1989 New Faculty Equipment Grant, University of British
Columbia.
CDN$4,400.
1989 University of British Columbia Block Grant,
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council
of Canada, for monitoring local biological diversity
and plant genetic resources for environmental planning
and land management.
CDN$20,000.
1990 Kenya High Commission and CIDA, to investigate
role of women in village fuel wood planting programmes
for doctoral student Theresa Aloo.
CDN$3,000.
1990 Environmental Management Development in
Indonesia Project of Dalhousie University and
funded by CIDA for Surveying and conservation of
biological diversity for the islands of eastern
Indonesia including support for the UBC Landscape
Ecology GIS Laboratory. Administration was under
the supervision of Dalhousie University.
CDN$100,000.
1988 World Wildlife Fund, Australia grant for
conservation planning research on Fergusson
Island, Papua, New Guinea.
USA$5,000.
1988 Graduate Dean’s Research Grant, University of
California at Berkeley for conservation biology
research on islands in Papua, New Guinea
and Indonesia.
US$5,000.
1986 Beatrix Jones Farrand Fund Grant, University of California, Berkeley,
conservation on islands with rainforest,
a survey of planning requirements.
US$2,000.
1986 CGIAR and FAO, Ecogeographical survey of crop
and forage genetic resources, including wild
relatives of crops and weedy species in the
Sahel - northern Cameroon field work.
US$10,000.
1986 CGIAR and FAO, Ecogeographical survey of
rainforest fragments with wild species of Citrus
in south central Sumatra, Indonesia.
US$15,000.
1986 CGIAR and FAO, Ecogeographical survey of crop
and forage genetic resources, including wild
relatives of crops and weedy species in the
Sahel - Niger field work.
US$10,000.
1985 CGIAR and FAO, Ecogeographical survey of crop
and forage genetic resources, including wild
relatives of crops and weedy species in the Sahel -
Niger field work.
US$10,000.
1985 CGIAR and FAO, Ecogeographical survey of crop
and forage genetic resources, including wild
relatives of crops and weedy species in the
Sahel - Mali field work.
US$10,000.
1984 CGIAR and FAO, Ecogeographical survey of crop
and forage genetic resources, including wild
relatives of crops and weedy species in the Sahel
- Niger famine field work.
US$10,000.
1984 Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR) and Food and Agricultural
Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
Prosopis sp. survey and monitoring in the former
People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen.
US$5,000.
1981 Project Cost Grant, Visual Arts, Canada Council
to document the Spatsizi and Edziza wilderness
areas of northwestern British Columbia.
CDN$5,000.