Benjamin Saenz, Ph.D.

Benjamin Saenz, Ph.D., is a Senior Water Resource Specialist with more than two decades of experience investigating physical and biological interactions in aquatic systems. He specializes in coupling hydrodynamic, water quality, and ecosystem models to evaluate how organisms respond to changing environmental conditions across riverine, estuarine, and marine environments.

Prior to joining GEI, Dr. Saenz worked at Resource Management Associates, where he developed and applied advanced modeling approaches integrating hydrodynamics, sea ice physics, wind mixing, and ecosystem processes. His work combines direct field sampling, remote sensing, and bioacoustic techniques with numerical modeling to assess water quality, habitat conditions, and species responses. He has extensive experience calibrating long-term reservoir and river water quality models and supporting operational forecasting for temperature and ecosystem management.

Dr. Saenz actively publishes peer-reviewed research on modeling and transport processes in aquatic systems and continues to advance methods related to carbon cycling and estuarine biogeochemistry.