CV for Eucalypt Australia 2021-08-08

Y.D. BAR-NESSEUCALYPTUS FOREST SPECIALIST

HOBART, TASMANIA

+61 468 360 320 [email protected]

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PROFILE Outreach ecologist, geographer, and forest scientist with international experience in Earth’s significant forest zones. Dedicated to helping individual trees serve as ambassadors for the rest of the natural world through myriad projects in media, technology, tourism, advocacy, and conservation science.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Conducted first laser measurements >100m of any Eucalyptus, flowering plant, or Southern Hemisphere tree.

• US-India Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship: Landmark Trees of India.

• First specialist Giant Eucalyptus science tourism operator: Giant Tree Expeditions.

• First on-ropes scientific study of Eucalyptus tree canopy arthropod biodiversity & branching structure (MScResearch).

• First systematic aerial measurements of Earth's broadest trees - Indian banyans.

• Twenty years experience studying notable trees in Asia, North America, Australia, Pacific Islands, special interests in Thuja, Cryptomeria, Agathis, Araucaria, Cedrus, and Eucalyptus.

• First national-level documentation of Indian significant trees - 26,000 km of travel, deliverable outputs across various national media, presentations to schools, journalists, NGOs, governments

• First spherical VR video in Eucalyptus treetops • Japanese National Broadcaster- flagship nature

documentary Great Nature - On-camera interpretation of Eucalyptus forests

• Founding Editor of Tasmanian Geographic • Contributor to first ultra-high-resolution portrait

photograph of giant E. regnans –w/ The Tree Projects

AMBASSADORS

Rullah Longatyle - An ambassador from a bygone era, the last remaining titanic Eucalyptus

globulus. Lost in the 2019 fires.

In the uppermost branches of the famous Styx Valley E. regnans, the Two Towers

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• The Nature Conservancy – Forest canopy biodiversity project coordinator

• World Wildlife Fund (India) - developed Landmark tree student activities

• Plant Hunter website: Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens: botanical careers, virtual reality, film clips, heritage tree maps.

• First VR photography project of the Hibaku Trees: Hiroshima A-Bomb Survivors

• Media appearances/contributions including BBC, ABC, Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, Time Out, GEO Qantas Magazine, Smithsonian Museum

EDUCATION

• US-India Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship Delhi, India • Student Scholar “Landmark Trees of India” 2007-10

• Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia

• Masters of Environmental Studies 2005 • College of Forest Resources, University of

Washington Seattle, USA • Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources (Wildlife

Science) 2001 • Wilderness Medicine Institute Oregon, USA

Wilderness First Responder 2006 • Landour Language School Landour, India

• Critical Language Enhancement Scholarship 2007 • Industrial Rope Access Trade Association Perth,

Australia Industrial Rope Technician 2010

AMBASSADORS

The Arve Giant - A contender for largest eucalypt, and a flagship

Eucalyptus tourist destination. Lost in the 2019 fires.

HOBART, TASMANIA



A life’s dream come true - climbing in the cedar forests of

the Himalaya

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EXPERIENCE

• Giant Tree Expeditions - www.giant-trees.com Founder, Guide 2019

• Tasmanian Geographic - www.tasgeo.com Founder and Editor, 2012 – ongoing

• Asian Geographic Magazine Field Editor & Regular Contributor (approximately 40 feature articles) 2012 – 2016

• Huon Valley/Geeveston Town Hall, Tasmania Giant Tree Intepretation Design 2017

• Expedition Class - Treehouse Challenge Treeclimber/ Outreach Scientist - video lessons for schoolchildren around Australia 2017

• Warra Long Term Ecological Research Site Web Designer - flagship tall Eucalyptus scientific site 2017

• Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (University of Tasmania) Technician 2015

• Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Project Designer 2013-14

• Warra Long Term Ecological Research Site (Australian National University - Botany) Technician 2013

• University of Tasmania IT Technician 2013-17

• Asialink (University of Melbourne) Asian Literacy Ambassador 2013

• World Expeditions Senior Guide 2012-13

• Curtin Institute for Biodiversity & Climate Research Associate 2012

• Vertical Services Rope Access Technician 2011

• Bennelongia Environmental Consultancy Biologist 2010

AMBASSADORS

HOBART, TASMANIA



In the Andromeda Grove, Styx Valley - Earth’s tallest flowering

forest

Witness Tree of Hiroshima Castle - This Eucalyptus not only survived the atomic bomb, but is thriving

and revered to this day.

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• Forest Survey of India Collaboration on Sipur Sacred Grove treemapping, Himachal Pradesh 2010

• The Nature Conservancy Forest Scientist - Canopy biodiversity project lead 2007

• Islandwood Experiential Environmental Education Scientist-in-Residence 2007

• Center for Conservation Biology (Seattle) Field crew leader 2006

• International Canopy Network Lab Metadata consultant 2005

• US Forest Service (Idaho State Gov’t) Field technician 2005

SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT

• How Tall is The Tallest Flowering Tree (Report) by YD Bar-Ness & Steve Pearce Outreach Ecology Report Dec18

• Hibaku Witness Trees of Hiroshima by YD Bar-Ness Outreach Ecology Report Jan15

• Crown Structure Differences and Dynamics in Eucalyptus Obliqua by YD Bar-Ness Australian Forestry Journal Jun12

• Sampling forest canopy biodiversity with three novel minimal cost trap designs by YD Bar-Ness with McQuillan, Whitman, Junker, Cracknell, Barrows Aus Journal of Entomology 51 Feb12

• Tracing Taxonomic Arcs by YD Bar-Ness J of Geophytology 41 Dec11

• The World's Largest Trees - Cataloguing Indias Giant Banyans by YD Bar-Ness Outreach Ecology Report Jun10

• Arunachala Mountain Photomonitoring Report by YD Bar-Ness Outreach Ecology Report Jan10

• Agumbe Rainforest Research Station Baseline Surveys by YD Bar-Ness Outreach Ecology Report Jan10

AMBASSADORS

Mother & Daughter - A ninety-metre tall Eucalyptus globulus, the most spectacular living specimen of

its type

HOBART, TASMANIA



Encountering a mighty Eucalyptus tree growing

happily in the South Indian mountains

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• Cataloging India's Living Tree Heritage by YD Bar-Ness Outreach Ecology Report Jan10

• Landmarking Trees WWF Student Seminar by YD Bar-Ness Presentation at World Wildlife Fund Delhi 24Jul09

• Characterization of Biological Diversity in Forest Refugia of Willapa Hills by Davis et al with YD Bar-Ness Report for The Nature Conservancy Jun09

• Old growth Islands in an Ocean of Regrowth (Coastal rainforest canopy arthropod study) by YD Bar-Ness Presentation at 5th Intl Canopy Conference Bangalore Oct09

• Conserving India's Heritage Trees by YD Bar-Ness Keynote at INTACH Delhi Jul09

• Vateria indica Crown Structure Mapping by YD Bar-Ness Outreach Ecology Report Apr09

• Characterization of Biological Diversity (Poster) by Davis et al with YD Bar-Ness NW Sci Assn Mtg Mar09

• Trees Older Than Mountains by YD Bar-Ness Palaeobotany Conference in Lucknow Nov08

• Age And Distance Effects On Eucalyptus Obliqua Arthropods by YD Bar-Ness with JB Kirkpatrick and PB McQuillan Forest Ecology and Mgt 26 Jan06

• Crown Structure and Canopy Arthropods of Tasmanian Eucalyptus Obliqua by YD Bar-Ness Masters Thesis, U of Tasmania Geography and Env Studies Jan05

• Crown Structural Attributes and Canopy Invertebrate Fauna Of Eucalyptus by YD Bar-Ness Presentation at Intl Congress of Entomology, Brisbane Aug04

• Tiny Animals Titan Trees by YD Bar-Ness Poster at Invertebrates Conference, Hobart, Australia Oct03

AMBASSADORS

Megadendra - A study Eucalyptus obliqua from my 2004 biodiversity surveys, in the Warra Research Site.

With R. Junker

HOBART, TASMANIA



Meeting an ancient African baobab brought to Central India five centuries before

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FEATURE ARTICLES (SELECTED)

• Land of the Giants - First Full-Length Giant Eucalyptus Portrait Text by YD BarNess & Steve Pearce Australian Geographic Jan17

• Witnessing Changes - Tasmanian Bushfires by YD Bar-Ness Journeys Aug19

• Challenge of the Rainbow Chaser by YD Bar-Ness Journeys Aug18

• A Rocky Road – Quartzite Mountains by YD Bar-Ness Journeys Apr18

• The Two Forests of Hollybank by YD Bar-Ness Journeys Oct17

• A MapMaker's Toolkit - Cartographic Details by YD Bar-Ness Lume Magazine mid17

• The Farthest Corner - A Sea Kayak Expedition by YD Bar-Ness Wild Magazine Mar17

• Comets As Arks by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Jul16

• Pangaea - Dance of the Moving Continents by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Jun16

• Design Lessons from Tasmanian Giant Trees by YD Bar-Ness Lume Magazine mid16

• A Motorists Guide to Giant Trees of Tasmania by YD Bar-Ness Journeys Feb16

• The Wallace Line - Where Kangaroo Meets Monkey by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Jan16

• Extreme Desertification - A Quick Guide by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Aug15

AMBASSADORS

The White Knight - The tallest Eucalyptus viminalis ever recorded, site of a tourist track in NE Tas. Lost

to climate stress in 2020.

HOBART, TASMANIA



In a famous landmark banyan tree of Hong Kong

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• Ancient Pillars to the Sky (Ancient Cryptomeria Groves of Japan) by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Jun15

• The Giant Caves of Sarawak by YD Bar-Ness Jetwings International May15

• The Broadest Trees - India’s Superlative Banyan Trees by YD BarNess What’s Up (International Canopy Network Newsletter) Mar15

• Avalanche - A Basic Survival Kit by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Jan15

• Powder Blizzard -Sandstorms by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Jan15

• Hibaku – The A-Bombed Trees of Hiroshima by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Nov14

• Vanquishing Humbaba - The Cedar Forests by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Jun14

• India's Superlative Banyan Trees by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Mar14

• Branching Out -A Treetop Memoir by YD Bar-Ness The Big Issue Mar14

• Appreciating Our Gondwanan Heritage by YD Bar-Ness Wild Magazine Nov13

• All the World In A Mango Tree by YD Bar-Ness The Expeditioner Sep13

• Safe Arbour (Urban Forest of Fort Cochin) by YD Bar-Ness Time Out Explorer Mar13

• Treetop Science and Citizen Science Toolkit by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Jan13

• The Ground On Which We Walk (Australian Granites) by YD Bar-Ness Wild Magazine Jan13

• On The Big Tree of Life by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic Oct12

AMBASSADORS

Gothmog - The gnarliest and largest of all Eucalyptus obliqua

known, and the first eucalyptus tree I ever climbed

HOBART, TASMANIA



Biodiversity research for The Nature Conservancy in the Sitka spruce coastal rainforests of the

American northwest

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• On The Trail of the Fijian Dakua (Kauri Trees) by YD Bar-Ness Pacific Airways May12

• Giant Banyans by YD Bar-Ness GEO Magazine Mar12

• Earth's Fire (Asian Stratovolcanoes) by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic 87 Feb12

• The Forest is a Village by YD Bar-Ness Down To Earth 14Feb12

• The Language of the Landscape by YD Bar-Ness Asian Geographic 86 Jan12

• Trees of the Ramayana by YD Bar-Ness GEO Magazine Oct11

• Sacred Trees of Western India by YD Bar-Ness Gonomad Sep10

• The Evergreen Emeralds (Pacific N. American Rainforests) by YD Bar-Ness Jetwings International Aug10

• Hunting Trees In India by YD Bar-Ness Matador Jul10

• The Kabir Tree (Giant Banyan of India) by YD Bar-Ness Outlook Traveller Jan10

• Travel Around the World With India's Trees by YD Bar-Ness Panda Magazine WWF Apr09

• Report From the Canopy Down Under by YD Bar-Ness What’s Up (International Canopy Network Newsletter) Fall03

OUTREACH ECOLOGY BOOKS & RESOURCES

• How Tall Is the Tallest Flowering Tree? by YD Bar-Ness & Steve Pearce www.giant-trees.com Feb19

• Conservation of Indian Heritage Trees (Monograph) by YD Bar-Ness Journal of Heritage Studies Apr13

AMBASSADORS

Damocles - One of only a small handful of trees in the Southern

Hemisphere taller than 90 metres

HOBART, TASMANIA



Filming a documentary in Papa Zig, a giant E. regnans. Burnt in 2019, sections of its wood are

display in the Tas Museum

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• Trail Map - Walking With Trees by YD Bar-Ness Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Feb14

• Trees as Ambassadors (Poster Map) by YD Bar-Ness World Wildlife Fund Jan10

• Earth Science, Astronomy, and Space – Geology Textbook by YD Bar-Ness, with Tiefholz, Osman Asian Geographic Feb15

MEDIA APPEARANCES & CONTRIBUTIONS (SELECTED)

• The White Knights - (Eucalyptus viminalis) by Steve Pearce (The Tree Projects) for Eucalypt Australia Mar19

• Tallest Tree Survives Forest Inferno by Matthew Denholm The Australian Newspaper Feb19

• Tall Tree Centurion passes 100-metre mark by Georgie Burgess ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Dec18

• Treehouse Challenge by Andrew Hughes, Expedition Class The Mercury Oct17

• The Biggest Tree Canopy on the Planet Stretches Across Nearly Five Acres by Ben Crair Smithsonian Apr17

• The Fig and the Wasp (World’s Broadest Trees) by Ben Crair Smithsonian Magazine Apr17

• Lifting a Veil from Towering Sentinels of a Lost Age by Matthew Denholm (Technical Rigging) The Australian Feb17

• Photographing one of the world's tallest trees in Tasmania's Styx Valley by Carol Raabus ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Jan17

• We Spent 67 Days Photographing One of the World's Tallest Trees by Steve Pearce (The Tree Projects) Petapixel Jan17

AMBASSADORS

The Mount Tree - 20 years ago, the tallest known of all flowering plants. Now forgotten - my clients and I are

the only regular visitors.

HOBART, TASMANIA



Teaching a field class on forest ecology in Tasmania’s Styx

Valley

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• Tasmanian Tree Project Film by Steve Pearce (The Tree Projects) Australian Geographic online Jan17

• In Pictures -Photographing Australia’s tallest trees Photos by Steve Pearce BBC News Jan17

• Tasmanian Tree Projects - an intimate portrait from an impossible perspective Photos by Steve Pearce The Guardian Jan17

• Giant Tree Museum Exhibit (Photography by The Tree Projects) Captions by YD Bar-Ness Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Dec16

• Tasmania - Saving the Last Giants (Documentary Film) (Technical Rigging)- Produced by ARTE France French TV Documentary Nov16

• Great Nature: Tasmania (Flagship nature documentary By NHK Japan Public Broadcaster Great Nature Nov13

• High Achiever - Tree Climber Branches Out by Tim Martain The Mercury Saturday Magazine Aug13

• The Largest Banyan Tree of Kota Kinabalu by Murphy At MySabah website (Borneo) Nov12

• Lucknow's Immortal Banyan Tree by Sahastra Rashmi Green Ogre June12

• Arboreal Wonders by Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed Frontline Jun12

• Vattakanal Conservation Trust Botanical Note by Bob Stewart & Tanya Balcar Report Nov11

• Asialink Literacy Ambassador Profiles by YD Bar-Ness Asialink Melbourne Oct11

• Documenting Trees Through Photographs by Parth Joshi Youth Leader Magazine Aug10

• A Tree to Tale by Harshita Soni Down To Earth Apr10

• Nature's Landmarks by Shalini Shah The Hindu 30Apr10

AMBASSADORS

Centurion - The tallest known flowering plant, when last measured

in Nov 18. Lucky survivor of a bushfire weeks later in 2019.

HOBART, TASMANIA



Preparing for a public tree tour at the Royal Tasmanian

Botanical Gardens

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• Mission Green - Spotting Landmark Trees by Ayesha Arvind and Mandakini Gahlot The Indian Express Newspaper 25Jul09

• Tale From the Treetop by Proyashi Barua Times Of India Apr09

• Live Previews- Landmark Trees of India by Radhika Arora Time Out Delhi Mar09

• Climbing TreeTops - A Cultural Endeavor by V Mudaliar Indian Fulbrighter Newsletter 26Feb09

• Finding Old Tree Tops by Clair Mcdougall Indian Express Delhi 13Apr08

• Life at All Levels (Project Profile) by TNC-WA The Nature Conservancy WA Magazine Sep07

• Of Bugs and Branches by YD Bar-Ness Report for Australian Geographic May05

• Ground Breaking Research (Tasmanian Canopy Biodiversity Research) Australian Geographic 70 Jun03

AMBASSADORS

HOBART, TASMANIA



In an ancient kauri tree of Northern New Zealand,

botanising with University of Auckland researchers

Dip Falls Big Tree - The only gum tree presented for visitation in the Tarkine region of NW Tasmania.

Focal point of a lovely trail.

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