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Support the Next Generation of Ecological Leaders
Help The Coe Lab cultivate a sustainable future: restoring the Amazon rainforest, supporting Shipibo-Konibo knowledge and traditions, and creating educational opportunities for students. Every gift, no matter the size, helps us advance our mission. Thank you for your support!
Gifts to The Coe Lab support research, student tuition and stipends, field travel, and project expenses. We are also working toward establishing an endowment for the lab, which would provide lasting support for students and research for years to come.
All gifts to The Coe Lab are fully tax-deductible.
What do the donations support?
Your support can make a lasting impact by helping The Coe Lab provide once-in-a-lifetime educational and research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students from the United States, the Amazon basin, and beyond.
Meet Liz Meléndez Rengifo, a prospective graduate student in The Coe Lab. Liz is from the Shipibo-Konibo community of San Francisco, in the Ucayali region of Peru, and has spent much of her life in the forests of the Amazon basin. Growing up in a region where local understandings of nature are deeply interwoven with spirit, Liz developed a rich knowledge of her local ecosystem and of the management practices her community relies on for subsistence, survival, and livelihoods. She earned her bachelor’s degree in agroforestry from the National University of Ucayali and is eager to pursue her master’s degree in The Coe Lab, where she will help guide the Pacha Nishi Project and other collaborative efforts to cultivate a sustainable future in the Amazon basin.
Donor support allows The Coe Lab to support graduate students like Liz throughout their education. Through her graduate work, Liz will grow both as a leader in her field and as an empowered knowledge-holder in her community, carrying an integrated understanding of ecosystem management and ecological restoration rooted in both the principles of modern ecology and Shipibo-Konibo ecological knowledge. This places her in a unique position to help develop a woven-science framework that guides a sustainable future in the Amazon basin, while supporting the continuation of her community’s traditions.
To make a gift, use the donation button below. For gifts of $2,500 USD or more, or to discuss contributing to the lab’s future endowment, please email mcoe@tarleton.edu to arrange a gift agreement. We’re also happy to answer any questions about the donation process.
How to give
Click Donate below to open Tarleton State University’s secure giving page.
In the search bar at the top, type Coe.
If the page says there were no other matches, click Show other funds.
Select Biological Sciences Research – Michael Coe, then click Add to my gift.
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