LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A local biologist has been named to the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Gregory Giusti of Kelseyville was appointed to the board by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Giusti, 58, has been an advisor and director of forest and wildlands ecology at the University of California Cooperative Extension since 1985, and has an in-depth knowledge of Clear Lake.

He was an agricultural biologist at the San Mateo County Department of Agriculture from 1981 to 1985 and chief biologist at the Marine Ecological Institute from 1979 to 1981.

He earned a master of arts degree in ecology and population biology from California State University, San Francisco.

This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem.

Giusti is registered decline-to-state.