Curriculum Vitae - Jack Magai
Consulting Highlights
Hazard assessment, Village of Coxsackie, NY and NYSDOT, 2009
Hazard Assessment, Emma Willard School, Troy, NY 2008
Street Tree Damage Assessment, Town of Coeymans, NY 2007
Street Tree Risk Assessment, Village of Cobleskill, NY 2006
Tree Survey, Riverstone Manor banquet facility, Glenville, NY 2005
Preservation Planning of Great Oak, George Landis Arboretum, Esperance, NY 2003
Tree Survey, Washington Park, Troy, NY 2001
Tree-preservation guidelines and drawings for construction of office building, Abossein Engineering, Bellevue, WA 1998
Speaking and Teaching Highlights
Guest Lecturer: Landscape Patterns: From Region to Site
(ARCH 4967.01) RPI, Troy NY, 2008
Planting Demonstrations, Capital District Community Gardens, Troy, NY 2002-6
Speaker, Spring Garden Day, Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer Co., NY 2005 and 2009
Pruning classes, Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer Co., NY 2003
Tree Care Highlights
Pruning, Albany Public Library, NY 2006- 8
Estate tree management, Margaret Harvey, Wynantskill, NY 2003-7
Estate tree management, Jan Moyer Designs, Spiegletown, NY 2002 - present
Ameliorating construction-related damage to trees, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY 2001
Institutional Grounds Tree Management, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle 1992-99
Landscape Lighting Installation
Williams Landscape Lighting Design 2003 – present
Jan Moyer Design 2005 -- present
Practical Training
Climber and foreman, Organic Tree Care, Shaftsbury, Vermont 1989-90
Groundsman and climber, Arbor Vitae Tree Care, San Francisco 1989
Education
Botany 116B, SUNY Cobleskill, 2008
International Tree Failure Database (ITFD) training, UMass Amherst, 2008
Tree Risk Assessment Workshop, New York State Arborists, Albany, NY 2006
Insects and Diseases of Forest Trees, Cooperative Extension of Warren Co., NY 2005
ISA Conferences, Seattle 2002 & Pittsburgh 2005
The Body Language of Trees and Visual Tree Assessment, with Dr. Claus Mattheck 1999 and 2002
Urban Forestry for the New Millennium, with Nina Bassuk, University of Vermont 1999
BA Bennington College 1991

