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Ph.D. student, Ecology, University of California Davis

M.S. in Wildlife Biology, Humboldt State University
B.S. in Natural Resources, Cornell University


Greta Wengert has conducted many types of biological research and monitoring throughout northern California before co-founding MGW Biological Surveys. In 2000, she was contracted by California State Parks to develop and conduct a full research plan on the Roosevelt elk herd in Sinkyone Wilderness State Park, Mendocino County, CA researching the population size and reproductive success, distribution, behavior, habitat use, range, physical condition, and parasites of the elk herd. During this time, she completed her Master's thesis on the nursing behavior of Roosevelt elk calves and the reproductive success of adult females.

Greta has also worked extensively on a large-scale Marbled Murrelet research project in Redwood National Park performing surveys and nest searches using radio telemetry and conducting disturbance assessments on chicks and incubating adults. She also worked on a project conducting at-sea Marbled Murrelet surveys and prey distribution analysis. She spent a season in Botswana, Africa radio-tracking African wild dogs, performing ungulate censuses and conducting an anthropological investigation in the use of natural resources by native people. Greta worked for the California Cooperative Fishery Research Unit performing coho and chinook salmon spawner surveys, coho salmon mark-recapture and population estimates through e-fishing and seining, and drift and water analysis. Greta also helped create and conduct the protocol for the accuracy assessment of a regional wildlife habitat map derived from LANDSAT for northern California by characterizing vegetation plots for DBH, density, and stand type based on the California Wildlife Habitat Relationship system.

Greta has spent several months volunteering in the wildlife field including trapping mesocarnivores and large rodents for disease studies, mist-netting passerines in agricultural areas, assisting in snowy plover nest searches and assistant-teaching a wildlife ecology course at Cornell University. She is also a trained Basic Supervisor for the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. Greta is an active member of the Wildlife Disease Association, Humboldt State University Mammals Discussion Group and Wildlife Diseases Club, and the Wildlife Society.

Greta graduated with honors for her M.S. in Wildlife from Humboldt State University in 2001 and was nominated for the Patricia O. McConkey Award for the Outstanding Thesis. In 1995, she received her B.S. in Wildlife from Cornell University. She is originally from upstate New York and came to northern California in 1995. Greta's certifications include CPR and First Aid, Defensive Driving, and OSPR Hazard Communications. In her free time, Greta enjoys backpacking, bodyboarding, playing the piano and angling.