Benjamin Saenz Email & Phone Number

Ocean Carbon Dioxide removal (CDR) :: Biophysical & Hydrodynamic Modeling :: Seaweed Biology & Modeling :: Climate Strategy :: Due-Diligence (Climate, resources, environment, biology/chemistry) :: Trophic Dynamics & Marine Ecology :: OrnithologySelected Projects: • Scientific Advisor, Ebb Carbon: A start-up company proving and scaling CDR via ocean alkalinity enhancement • Author and modeling/data development, Macroalgae chapter of forthcoming DOE Billion Ton report. • Consultant, biophysical ocean modeling, Coastal Dynamics Laboratory (Prof. Kristen Davis, UC Irvine) • PI, Sustainable Seaweed Solutions, a ClimateWorks-funded investigation of global biophysical and economic seaweed cultivation potential • Consultant: SEA MATE, a Grantham-funded program to investigate and scale electrochemical ocean-alkalinity-based carbon sequestration (Prof. Matt Eisaman, Stony Brook University) • Invited expert reviewer: National Academy of Sciences report - A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration

Berkeley, Ca

Project Lead: Modeling and research to estimate inorganic CO2 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta, to understand impacts from potential geologic CO2 sequestration leakage scenarios (with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).Water Quality model calibration and development, in support of the USBR-operated northern California reservoir and river system, primarily using ResSim (HEC, USACE).

Developed the KEI model (KPP-Eco-Ice), a 1-dimensional fully coupled ocean, sea ice, and ecosystem model (https://github.com/blsaenz/keipy)

Mountain View, Ca

Marine Science Institute

Berkeley, Ca

Ph.D., Environmental Earth System Science

Bs Electrical Engineering, Bs Biological Sciences