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Craig S. Benson, MS, CWS (he/him/his)

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Cal Poly Humboldt
Eureka, California, United States

Mr. Craig Benson has 30 years of professional experience in a wide variety of watershed and coastal resources management, ecological restoration, agro-ecological planning, erosion control, and forest improvement projects in the United States, West Africa, and South America. Regionally, Mr. Benson has contracted with federal, state and county agencies, parks and open space districts, as well as with private landowners and Indian Tribes in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of more than 350 ecological restoration projects and 15 watershed assessments in the Western U.S. Projects have included watershed analysis & assessment, hydrologic restoration, vegetation management, riparian stream restoration, riparian buffer zone design, soil bioengineering, constructed wetlands, fisheries and wildlife habitat enhancement, erosion control planning, soil phytoremediation, mycoremediation, agroforestry, and agroecological restoration. A large portion of these projects have included stormwater management and NPDES permit compliance, particularly the development of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) documents for sediment and turbidity impaired watersheds, Non-point Source Pollution Plans, stormwater management plans (SWMPs) and stormwater pollution prevention plans (SWPPPs). Over the last decade, Mr. Benson has focused primarily on acquiring grant funding to assemble science and engineering teams to develop coastal watershed rehabilitation plans, sea level rise adaption strategies, and sediment dynamics related to dam removal and riverine restoration.

Mr. Benson is a member of the faculty at Cal Poly Humboldt teaching in the Department of Environmental Sciences & Management and in the Department of Forestry, Fire and Range Soil. He is a member of Cal Poly Humboldt’s Sea Level Rise Institute. He is also the elected Division 4 Harbor Commissioner for the Humboldt Bay Harbor. Lastly, Craig has served on both IECA chapter and the international board. He is a frequent presenter at IECA conferences worldwide and was recently selected as IECA Speaker of the Year at the Kansas City Conference in 2023.

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