Yapp, Graham Arthur   (1940 -  )

Born 1940.

Little is known of this person.

In the Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales, May 12 1961, Mr. Graham Arthur Yapp is listed as a Survey Draftsman in the Forestry Commission of New South Wales, Department of Conservation.

In the CSIRO Annual Report for 1969/70, under 'Staff' he is listed as G.A.Yapp, with a B.A. Degree, in Division of Land Research, Black Moutain, ACT.

In 1969 CSIRO publishes 'CSIRO Land Research Series No. 24', a series of three maps on 'Lands of the Queanbeyan-Shoalhaven Area, A.C.T. and N.S.W.' with authors: RH Gunn, R Story, JR McAlpine, PJB Duffy, GA Yapp and RW Galloway.
Yapp was a major contributor to:
Map 1 - Land Systems of the Queanbeyan-Shoalhaven area, ACT and NSW Scale 1:250,000 and
Map 3 - Vegetation, Grazing Lands and Climate of the Queanbeyan-Shoalhaven area, ACT and NSW, Three maps on sheet, scale each 1:350,000.

The CSIRO Plant Industry dark-room processed 'infra-red Field Film' for him in February 1972.

And there are negatives in the dark-room records with subject: "G.A.Yapp and Robert Story in the field", and overlapping and joint collecting indicates they worked together in Queensland.

In 1975 he is awarded an Master of Arts Degree from the Australian National Univrsity with his thesis titled: 'An aspect of the geography of recreation on the South Coast of New South Wales'.

He is mentioned is CSIRO's CoResearch Newsletter 188 in January 1975 in relation to the Black Mountain creche.

The National Library (NLA) holds a PhD Thesis with the title: 'The nature and carrying capacity of recreation environment' by Graham Arthur Yapp published in Edinburgh (UK) in 1978 - which implies he had moved to the UK.

There seems to be no birth records in Trove, and no death records for Australia in the Ryerson Index.

Source: Extracted from:
https://csiropedia.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/coresearch_1975.pdf
https://www.publish.csiro.au/CR/LRS24
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14689991?
Portrait Photo: none known.

Collecting localities for 'Yapp, G.A.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 223 specimens