Robert P. d’Ambrosio — Ambrose Laboratories Ltd.

Curriculum Vitae

of

Robert P. d'Ambrosio

92 Lakeshore Drive

Eastchester, New York  10709

Cell: 914-774-7100

  Home:  (914) 779-1984

e-mail: rxtrees@aol.com

Web site: treesmd.com

PERSONAL:              Date of Birth — July 23, 1940

                                    Widowed       

                                    Good health

                                    Businessman, scientist, consultant, teacher, writer

EDUCATION:           Botany Certificate, N.Y. Botanical Garden, 1966       

                                    Advanced Botany I, N.Y.B.G., 1967

                                    Advanced Botany II, N.Y.B.G., 1968

                                    Paleobotany, N.Y.B.G., 1968

                                    Bonsai, N.Y.B.G., 1968

                                    Artificial Light Gardening, N.Y.B.G., 1971

                                    Applied Ecology, N.Y.B.G., 1972

                                    Pest Control Operation, C.U.N.Y., 1973

                                    Advanced Pest Control, C.U.N.Y., 1974

                                    Ethnobotany, N.Y.B.G., 1975

                                    Continuing Education (courses and lectures)

                                    Plant Pathology (10 years, Dr. P.P. Pirone, Mentor)

 WORK

EXPERIENCE:          1956-59 Summers only — D & C  Landscaping (fathers business)             

                                    1959-61 — U.S. Coast Guard

                                    1962 — Landscape Superintendent, Lawrence Labriola, Inc.,

                                                Scarsdale, N.Y.

                                    1963 to present — Owner of Ambrose Tree Care, Eastchester, N.Y.

                                    1972-1975 — President, TKO  Exterminating, Inc., Eastchester, N.Y.

                                    1972-1986- Teacher and Coordinator of Arboriculture, N.Y. Botanical

                                    Garden, Bronx, N. Y.

                                    1974 to present -  Founder and Director of Ambrose Laboratories, Ltd.

                                    1982 — Founder — Trees Rights for an Equal Existence Society (TREES)

                                    1982 — Architect and Author — "Tree Causality and Evaluation Report"                                            (An internationally accepted system for placing a value on the                                                          worth of a tree using specially designed forms and data banking)

                                    Designing & installing natural landscapes.

                                    Consulting

                                    Expert testimonials

TEACHING

EXPERIENCE:          Horticultural Society of N.Y.

                                    Coordinator of Arboriculture, N.Y. Botanical Garden

                                    University of the Virgin Islands

                                    Lecturing for civic organizations, public schools and garden clubs

                                    Lecturing for professional  organizations, national & international

MEMBERSHIP

ORGANIZATIONS: N.Y. Botanical Garden (Staff)

                                    American Society of Landscape Architects

                                    American Phytopathological Society                                                                                                              International Society of Arboriculture ( Awards Committee)

                                    Agricultural Institute of Canada

                                    American Fern Society

                                    American Littoral Society

                                    American Forestry Association

                                    N.Y. Mycological Society

                                    Torrey Botanical Club (Field trip leader, Director)

                                    Society of Commerical Arboriculture

                                    Mayor's Voluntary Action Center of N.Y.C.

                                    National Consultant Network

                                    U.S.D.A. Plant Pathology, Specialist

                                    New York State Arborist Association

ACTIVE                     Meteorology

INTERESTS:              Botanical Photography

                                    Underwater Photography

                                    Noise Pollution

                                    Poisonous Plants

                                    Cultivation of Wildflowers

                                    Bronze castings of botanically accurate mushrooms

                                    Water color painting

                                    Palm frond weaving and pine needle weaving

PUBLISHED             ESTABLISHING BASIC TREE VALUES (1984  Arbor Age).

WORKS:

                                    A WILT DISEASE OF ANEMONE CORONARIA HORT.  CAUSED BY

                                    COLLETOTRICHUM GLOEOSPORIOIDES WITH PSEUDOMONAS            

1. AS A SYNERGIST. ( 1987 Am. Phytopath. )

                                    CROWN DENSITY AND IT'S CORRELATION TO GIRDLING  ROOT

                                    SYNDROME  ( 1990  Jour. Arb. 16(6) ).

                                    “THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE TREE”   A children book about a tree that is on

                                    trial before a jury.

CONTRIBUTOR:      TREE MAINTENANCE, P.P.PIRONE, SIXTH EDITION, OXFORD PRESS.

ONGOINGS:             A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A

                                    COMMEMORATIVE  STAMP  FOR ARBORICULTURE

                                    ( initiated in 1987).

                                    DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING

                                    THE AMOUNT OF HUMIC CONTENT IN SOILS.

                                    THE  PROCESS  THAT INITIATES THE ASCEND OF SAP IN TREES

                                    IN THE SPRING..

                        TREE WOUND RESPONSE TO VARIOUS SHEET METAL DRESSINGS.

                          “THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE TREE”.  Archway Publishing, 2015           .                                                             

LIFE'S                                                           

OBJECTIVE:             "To leave behind an enrichment for the betterment of mankind".

REFERENCES:

                                    Steven Krog, Landscape Architect

                                    65 Pondfield Rd.

                                    Bronxville, N. Y. 10708

                                    914-779-2160

                                    Dominque Browning

                                    Editor in Chief

                                    House and Garden Magazine

                                    Art Klienman

                                    Site Design Resources

                                    39 W. 38^th Street

                                    New York, N. Y. 10012

                                    212-764-2220

CLIENT LIST:            IBM, Pepsico, General Electric, Union Carbide, Rockefeller Center,

                                     Central Park, City of New York, PSE&G, Federal Reserve Bank of New

                                     York,Villages of Bronxville,Tuckahoe and Larchmont, Manhattan Plaza,

                                     Tishman Corp. N.B.C., 50 Water Street, Playtex, Beth Israel Hospital,

                                      Samson Management, The Trump Corporation.