Gregor Yanega

Gregor joins the team as Conservation Project Manager at the California Central Coast Joint Venture, working initially in support of our Marbled Murrelet Recovery efforts, and as opportunities unfold, expanding to other arenas within our emerging Joint Venture. Gregor, accompanied by his wife and two kids, will be relocating to California’s Central Coast in July from their current residence in Oregon, and I look forward to sharing a few of our favorite family beach getaways with the new arrivals.

Gregor is an exceptional conservationist, ecologist, ornithologist, artist and producer of creativity. With decades of diverse experience across feathered (and nonfeathered) taxa worldwide, in addition to teaching, research design and collaborative project management among other talents, he occupies a rare niche that spans the technical, experiential and creative. Try and name a bird he has not worked with, a biome he has not surveyed, a journal he has not submitted to. Gregor is also an accomplished writer with an extensive collection of publications spanning peer reviewed literature to children’s books.