About

Outreach Ecology produces diverse projects connecting with the beauty and wonder of the world around us. We are a boutique services consultancy with practical experience over eighteen years and several countries.

OE was sparked by the wonder of climbing into the treetops, and draws upon our time specialising in canopy studies. We've been coming to terms with our obsession with technical tree-climbing for almost fifteen years, and have been fortunate to work, explore, and play in some of the world's most significant forests and trees.

We've measured the branching structure of Australia's towering eucalypts (the world's tallest flowering plants), surveyed the animal life in the giant evergreen conifers of the American West Coast, and studied the magnificent cedar trees of the Himalaya. We've helped out Japanese film crews, attended climbing events with Tree Climbers International, presented at canopy research conferences, observed a tree-climbing class in Borneo, conducted leaf samples at long-term research sites, interned at the International Canopy Network, and created 3D maps of tropical rainforest trees.

OE has field experience in wildlife ecology, landscape dynamics, lab procedures, natural history, and biodiversity surveys. We've published dozens of articles interpreting the natural world for the widest possible audience, drawing upon undergraduate education from the College of Forest Resources, University of Washington (Seattle), postgraduate research from the University of Tasmania, a Fulbright Fellowship (US Department of State), and fifteen years of mountaineering, hiking, and caving.

YDB has served as Field Editor for Asian Geographic and Chief Editor for Tasmanian Geographic. We are always looking for a new challenge — let's write a story, go exploring, and visualise it.