“I truly enjoy the people I work with every day. I am fortunate to regularly work with multi-discipline teams on a wide variety of projects across the United States (and beyond); keeping my work interesting on a daily basis.”
Jennifer Jones has 17 years of hydropower-specific experience and is Kleinschmidt’s Technical Director of the Science Division. From a technical standpoint, Jennifer is a hydraulic and hydrologic engineer who specializes in hydraulic calculations, dam breach and hydraulic modeling, hydrology, and hydropower energy modeling. She often manages or leads projects that involve hydraulic modeling to simulate open channel flow through rivers to evaluate areas of inundation caused by potential flooding of dam breaches; conducting hydraulic calculations through pipes and over dams or other structures to develop stage discharge rating curves and gate capacities; and creating energy models to determine historic and potential generation based on potential facility upgrades or improvements. Jennifer routinely supports relicensing projects with assistance in the applications as well as compliance requirements.
Jennifer is a member and former Past Maine Chapter President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and received her B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Maine at Orono with minors in Construction Management Technology and Mathematics. Jennifer is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Maine and Vermont.