Garcia and Associates | Bozeman, Montana

Oceanside, California
Garcia and Associates
516 Civic Center Drive
Oceanside, CA 92054

Voice: 1.760.722.8812
Fax: 1.760.722.8814

Regional Manager: Steve Clark, MS, Senior Ecologist

Mr. Clark is a practicing ecologist and seasoned environmental manager with 25 years' experience in terrestrial and aquatic systems ecology. He is a seasoned program and project manager that has designed and implemented rare and sensitive species assessments, invasive plants and vegetation assessments, and ecological risk assessments in the United States and Canada.

Gretchen Chaney, BS, Wildlife Biologist

Ms. Chaney has 10 years' experience in the environmental compliance and natural resource management, including both public and private sectors. Her experience includes conducting special-status species surveys, bird surveys, and biological monitoring.

Keir Morse, MS, Botanist

Mr. Morse is a botanist with 15 years' experience working on a wide variety of comprehensive floristic and vegetation surveys and studies across the United States. His experience includes floristic-level rare plant and weed surveys in Southern California, as well as habitat assessment and vegetation mapping.

Sonya Steckler, MS, Wildlife Biologist

Ms. Steckler is a wildlife biologist with a background in avian ecology and conservation and amphibian ecology. She has conducted extensive avian surveys and nest monitoring in Southern California and Arizona. Her fieldwork is focused primarily on special concern, threatened, and endangered birds of California, including Arizona Bell's vireo and least Bell's vireo.

Stephanie Hines, MA, Restoration Ecologist

Ms. Hines is a restoration ecologist with a background in arid and riparian ecosystems. She has implemented numerous restoration and invasive plant control projects in California and Arizona. Her work includes soil analysis and site design for restoration projects and invasive plant control projects for Tamarix, Arundo, Phragmites, and Centaurea species.

Jared Wahlberg, BA, GIS Specialist II

Mr. Wahlberg is a GIS Specialist with nearly seven years' experience as an environmental GIS consultant. He has used his skills in spatial analysis to conduct fire analysis as well as weed management strategies, rare plant inventories, and multi-year community planning projects.