Get to know N-EWN
A community of researchers, practitioners, and educators working together to advance the practice of natural infrastructure.
We work across four main branches
In order to help facilitate the widespread adoption of natural infrastructure practices across the United States, we’ve identified four main areas that need additional work:
Developing methods and standards
New tools, techniques and guidance are needed to effectively plan, design, construct and operate natural infrastructure at different scales
Assessing benefits and costs
Natural infrastructure provides communities with a broad array of economic, environmental and social benefits. Improved approaches are needed to evaluate, quantify and forecast these benefits to support planning and decision making
Monitoring performance and outcomes
Technically sound, efficient and applicable methods are needed to track natural infrastructure performance over time, develop the evidence base for future designs, ensure compliance with policy and inform project operations and adaptive management
Integrating people and policy
Providing infrastructure that supports human wellbeing and equitably meets the needs of diverse communities requires integration of human values, attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and policies with modern communication and collaboration practices
Combining a diversity of on-the-ground experience with interdisciplinary teams.
The N-EWN community is made up of over 30 partners from industry, academia and the non-profit sector.
What N-EWN’s been up to:
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High Energy Roundtable with the EWN Leads: Episode 2, Season 4
Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 4! EWN Practice Leads play a critical role in broadening and expanding the application of Engineering With Nature practices and nature-based solutions. Host Sarah Thorne and Jeff King, Deputy Lead of the Engineering With Nature Program at the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), are joined by a roundtable…
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Join us Thursday for the N-EWN Knowledge Seminar!
The Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN) invites you to join us for the N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature. The next webinar, Consideration of Natural Infrastructure for Flood Hazard Reduction in a Numerical Modeling Framework, will be held on Thursday, May 19th at 12:30 EST, presented by Amanda Tritinger (USACE) and Matthew Bilskie (UGA). Currently, incorporating EWN-based flood protection…
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Faces of Resiliency
In a recent feature, the UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant highlighted the ways in which communities are bolstering their resiliency to severe weather events. This series featured the work of several UGA N-EWN members, including Brian Bledsoe, UGA Athletic Association Professor & Director, UGA College of Engineering, Jessica Brown, Stormwater Specialist, UGA Marine Extension and…
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