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Faculty
Cal Poly Humboldt/Samara Restoration
Eureka, California, United States
Craig Benson has been an avid researcher, applied scientist and contractor in wide variety of watershed-scale to site-scale rehabilitation, reclamation, remediation and restoration efforts in the U.S., Latin America and West Africa. 2023 marks Craig's 40th year in practice with over 400 projects under his belt. Niels Bohr says "An expert is a person who has made every mistake in a given field". If one adds "...and learned from them" to the quote, then Craig has shared his "expertise" at the last ten IECA conferences. Through his career Craig's work has spanned the gov't sector, academia, both the private consulting and contracting world, the non-profit/NGO sector and working with Indigenous Communities. Hence, he brings perspective from a broad range of approaches and operating cultures.
Over the decades, Mr. Benson has assembled inter-disciplinary teams to address landscape and watershed scale assessments, including non-point source erosion plans, total maximum daily load evaluations, road rehabilitation plans, water quality enhancement programs, as well as climate change adaption, sea-level rise & coastal erosion, flood control, dam removal, fuel load management and assorted multi-hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness plans.
At the reach and site-scale Mr. Benson's work has focused on impacts and mitigation, soil remediation, ecological restoration, habitat enhancement, agro-silvo-pastoral system engineering, food security, and throughout all these projects, erosion & sediment control BMPs. The over-arching goal of Mr. Benson's work has been the enhancement of ecosystem services, building natural capital, and community adaptive capacity in a gradient of upland to riverine to marine habitats via the marriage of engineering and ecology through both standard Western science and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM US CT
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM US CT