LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — A respected local biologist has been reappointed to a state water board.

The Governor’s Office said Gregory Giusti of Kelseyville has been reappointed to the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, where he has served since 2013. 

Giusti has been director and advisor of forests and wildlands ecology at the University of California Cooperative Extension since 1985. 

He was an agricultural biologist for the San Mateo County Department of Agriculture from 1981 to 1985. 

Giusti was chief biologist at the Marine Ecological Institute from 1978 to 1981. 

He is a member of the California Forest Pest Council and of the Western Section of Wildlife Society. 

Giusti earned a Master of Arts degree in ecology and population biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in systemic biology from California State University, San Francisco. 

This position requires Senate confirmation, and the compensation is $250 per diem. 

Giusti is registered without party preference.