CAESARA BRUNGRABER, M.S.
Independent Contractor for Botany and Environmental Surveys

Experience summary

Mrs. Brungraber is a botanist and wildlife biologist with over 10 years of experience in native and non-native plant identification, habitat restoration, landscape design, and wildlife monitoring in several US states and Kenya.  She has more than three years of experience in wetland delineations, vernal pool vegetation assessments, vegetation mapping and plant community characterization, rapid assessment of plant populations, threatened and endangered plant surveys, rare plant surveys, biological statistics and analyses, animal identification, endangered and threatened (animal) species protocol surveys, and avian surveys.  Most of her work focus is in southern California.

Mrs. Brungraber has seven years of previous botanical experience working for her own company, Caesara Botanical Consulting, which she founded in 2002 as a sole proprietorship (under the name Caesara LLC in Connecticut).  She has served not only as the operating manager of the company but also as the lead botanist for numerous projects, many of which followed a strict survey protocol. She has also been working closely with Camp Pendleton and contacts at the FWS to determine a possible new species or hybrid of the Brodiaea genus, which she found in May 2008.  She has experience with jurisdictional wetlands and MS4 drainages, including field protocol (and the Arid West supplement) and JDR and EA document preparation. 

Her knowledge of flora has allowed her to lead several projects, including wetland restoration for bioremediation and erosion control purposes, rare plant surveys, endangered species surveys (both coastal and desert flora), wetland delineations, the founding of her own company, and self funded travel to floral hot spots around the world.  Mrs. Brungraber has a strong background in biological statistical analyses, experimental design, and environmental data collection techniques.  These strengths allow for accurate and very thorough data collection, analysis, and reporting.

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   GRIFFIN BRUNGRABER, Ph.D., P.E., QSD/QSP
Independent Contractor for Enginnering and Environmental Surveys

 

Experience Summary

            Dr. Brungraber has been an assistant biologist for over 5 years.  He has wide-ranging experience and skills, from rare plant surveys and weed mapping, to construction monitoring and storm water qualifications, as well as holding a PhD and P.E. to practice structural engineering. His biological work began recreationally and on weekends while he maintained full-time engineering work, but since 2011 he has worked full time doing construction monitoring and field surveys.   Recent experience includes California legless lizard, Coronado skink, and kangaroo rat identifications and relocations.  His biological work also includes rare plant identification and mapping, weed surveys and mapping, habitat assessments, and observation of numerous avian species during nesting season.

 

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