November 12, 2024
Listen to Illumine Collect and Actual Outdoor’s podcast Life in Motion episode #225: “Rivers, Canyons, and the Power of Adventure with Emma Wharton of Grand Canyon Youth”
August 18, 2024
Listen to a 2.5 minute short on Water News podcast that highlights GCY’s role in inclusive conservation efforts “Empowering Indigenous Voices in Grand Canyon Conservation: USGS and GCY’s Groundbreaking Expedition“
August 16, 2024
The US Geological Survey recently posted an article on their website by the Southwest Biological Science Center featuring a collaborative GCY expedition: “Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps joins USGS for Grand Canyon Research Expedition: A Partners in Science Highlight”
August 8, 2024
GCY’s outfitter on the Verde River, Clarkdale Kayak Company, celebrated in an article by Flagstaff Business News, quoting Emma Wharton, “Clarkdale Kayak has been an incredible partner…”
July 3, 2024
GCY’s Partners in Science expeditions and links to all the published science that GCY participants have participated in have been added to the US Geological Survey website.
May 8, 2024
The essay “A Classroom with a View” features Grand Canyon Youth in Michael Engelhard’s new book No Walk in the Park. Read a review of the book here.
December 23, 2023
Late Navajo artist Baje Whitethorne Sr. the recipient of Platt Cline Humanitarian Award. This article honors and celebrates the legacy of the late Diné artist and GCY youth mentor, Baje Whitethorn Sr.
December 21, 2023
“Watershed moments: GCY Celebrates 25 years of community and evolution“– read interviews with GCY alum and guide, Haile Nelson; founder, Carol “Fritz” Fritzinger; and Executive Director, Emma Wharton, in this AZ Daily Sun article by Matthew Hayden.
November 4, 2023
Want to learn more about one of GCY’s long-time community supporters? Emma Wharton, our Executive Director, is quoted in the article “Mountain Sports Flagstaff: Nurturing a Legacy of Community and Conservation”
October 30, 2023
Read about youth participation in community science with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in this article, “3 Cool ways USGS is Studying Bats in National Parks”
Summer 2023
“Safeguarding the Colorado River Ecosystem” about a summer 2023 GCY expedition through Grand Canyon that fisheries biologist Craig Ellsworth and ecologist Larry Stevens participated in, facilitating hands-on science with youth participants.
Spring 2023
“Walking In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Young Indigenous leaders and knowledge holders raft the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon” by Amber Benally, published in Grand Canyon Trust’s Advocate magazine.
August 25, 2022
“How You Can Contribute to Scientific Discoveries From Your Couch,” written by Bella Isaacs-Thomas and published by PBS Newshour, about how NASA, NOAA, and USGS are asking the public to support a wide range of scientific projects, features Grand Canyon Youth’s science data collection in Grand Canyon.
June 22, 2022
“Parks Look for Ways to Alleviate Glen Canyon Dam’s Downstream Impacts,” published by the U.S. National Park Service, about how vegetation experiments are helping restore Colorado River sites in Grand Canyon and Glen Canyon
May 31, 2022
“Grand Canyon among sites chosen as outdoor classroom for Indigenous youth” article by Joe Giddens in the Navajo-Hopi Observer
May 23, 2022
“Grand Canyon National Park and Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps receive National Park Foundation grant for Native Conservation Corps” press release from Grand Canyon Office of Communications.
April 20, 2022
GCY alum, Molly Ryan, named 2022 Wyss Scholar, a program that supports the graduate-level education of a new generation of leaders in U.S. land conservation.
March 7, 2022
“Native Youth Invited to Apply for Free Grand Canyon River Trip” KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny speaks with Amber Benally who manages the Rising Leaders program at the Grand Canyon Trust in Flagstaff.
November 23, 2021
Beyond the Pines’ podcast called #BeyondFLG
Episode 012: Emma Wharton (Grand Canyon Youth)
June 21, 2021
Listen to an interview with GCY alum Kate Aitchison on podcast Eddie Out with Natali Zollinger
CW: Language
“Kate Aitchison- Grand Canyon River Guide, Designer/Owner of Terra Flags, Artist and Professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) & Colorado College”
October 20, 2020 – Press Release
August 12, 2019 – Press Release
January 9, 2019 – Flagstaff Arts Council
December 2018 – Northern Arizona’s Mountain Living Magazine
November 13, 2018 – Arizona Daily Sun Article
Native American youth to join GCY’s habitat restoration
April 29, 2018 – Arizona Daily Sun Article
GCY wins Flagstaff STEMMY Award: STEM Superheroes on the rivers & canyons of the Southwest
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November 12, 2024
Listen to Illumine Collect and Actual Outdoor’s podcast Life in Motion episode #225: “Rivers, Canyons, and the Power of Adventure with Emma Wharton of Grand Canyon Youth”
August 18, 2024
Listen to a 2.5 minute short on Water News podcast that highlights GCY’s role in inclusive conservation efforts “Empowering Indigenous Voices in Grand Canyon Conservation: USGS and GCY’s Groundbreaking Expedition“
August 16, 2024
The US Geological Survey recently posted an article on their website by the Southwest Biological Science Center featuring a collaborative GCY expedition: “Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps joins USGS for Grand Canyon Research Expedition: A Partners in Science Highlight”
August 8, 2024
GCY’s outfitter on the Verde River, Clarkdale Kayak Company, celebrated in an article by Flagstaff Business News, quoting Emma Wharton, “Clarkdale Kayak has been an incredible partner…”
July 3, 2024
GCY’s Partners in Science expeditions and links to all the published science that GCY participants have participated in have been added to the US Geological Survey website.
May 8, 2024
The essay “A Classroom with a View” features Grand Canyon Youth in Michael Engelhard’s new book No Walk in the Park. Read a review of the book here.
December 23, 2023
Late Navajo artist Baje Whitethorne Sr. the recipient of Platt Cline Humanitarian Award. This article honors and celebrates the legacy of the late Diné artist and GCY youth mentor, Baje Whitethorn Sr.
December 21, 2023
“Watershed moments: GCY Celebrates 25 years of community and evolution“– read interviews with GCY alum and guide, Haile Nelson; founder, Carol “Fritz” Fritzinger; and Executive Director, Emma Wharton, in this AZ Daily Sun article by Matthew Hayden.
November 4, 2023
Want to learn more about one of GCY’s long-time community supporters? Emma Wharton, our Executive Director, is quoted in the article “Mountain Sports Flagstaff: Nurturing a Legacy of Community and Conservation”
October 30, 2023
Read about youth participation in community science with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in this article, “3 Cool ways USGS is Studying Bats in National Parks”
Summer 2023
“Safeguarding the Colorado River Ecosystem” about a summer 2023 GCY expedition through Grand Canyon that fisheries biologist Craig Ellsworth and ecologist Larry Stevens participated in, facilitating hands-on science with youth participants.
Spring 2023
“Walking In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Young Indigenous leaders and knowledge holders raft the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon” by Amber Benally, published in Grand Canyon Trust’s Advocate magazine.
August 25, 2022
“How You Can Contribute to Scientific Discoveries From Your Couch,” written by Bella Isaacs-Thomas and published by PBS Newshour, about how NASA, NOAA, and USGS are asking the public to support a wide range of scientific projects, features Grand Canyon Youth’s science data collection in Grand Canyon.
June 22, 2022
“Parks Look for Ways to Alleviate Glen Canyon Dam’s Downstream Impacts,” published by the U.S. National Park Service, about how vegetation experiments are helping restore Colorado River sites in Grand Canyon and Glen Canyon
May 31, 2022
“Grand Canyon among sites chosen as outdoor classroom for Indigenous youth” article by Joe Giddens in the Navajo-Hopi Observer
May 23, 2022
“Grand Canyon National Park and Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps receive National Park Foundation grant for Native Conservation Corps” press release from Grand Canyon Office of Communications.
April 20, 2022
GCY alum, Molly Ryan, named 2022 Wyss Scholar, a program that supports the graduate-level education of a new generation of leaders in U.S. land conservation.
March 7, 2022
“Native Youth Invited to Apply for Free Grand Canyon River Trip” KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny speaks with Amber Benally who manages the Rising Leaders program at the Grand Canyon Trust in Flagstaff.
November 23, 2021
Beyond the Pines’ podcast called #BeyondFLG
Episode 012: Emma Wharton (Grand Canyon Youth)
June 21, 2021
Listen to an interview with GCY alum Kate Aitchison on podcast Eddie Out with Natali Zollinger
CW: Language
“Kate Aitchison- Grand Canyon River Guide, Designer/Owner of Terra Flags, Artist and Professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) & Colorado College”October 20, 2020 – Press Release
August 12, 2019 – Press Release
Photo by Pamela Mathues January 9, 2019 – Flagstaff Arts Council
December 2018 – Northern Arizona’s Mountain Living Magazine
November 13, 2018 – Arizona Daily Sun Article
Native American youth to join GCY’s habitat restoration
April 29, 2018 – Arizona Daily Sun Article
GCY wins Flagstaff STEMMY Award: STEM Superheroes on the rivers & canyons of the Southwest
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