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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Three new post-doctoral researchers join the N-EWN team!
We’re excited to announce the addition of three new colleagues to the N-EWN team: Dr. Andressa Mansur, Dr. Charles van Rees, and Dr. Hithaishi Hewageegana. These researchers will further the N-EWN mission by leveraging their combined expertise in engineering, socio-ecological systems, numerical modeling, ecology, biology, marine and coastal management.
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The Case for Natural Infrastructure in the Face of Climate Change: N-EWN Partners Published in the Washington Post
On March 7th, 2021, N-EWN partners from the Institute of Resilient Infrastructure Systems and the Water Institute of the Gulf published a perspective piece in the Washington Post titled, How nature can help solve our infrastructure crisis amid extreme weather, climate change. In the article, Director of IRIS, Dr. Brian Bledsoe and Director of TWIG, Dr. Justin Ehrenswerth made the…
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N-EWN featured in UGA Today Story on Presidential Seed Grant
The University of Georgia’s Presidential Seed Grants are intended to bring leading researchers from different expertises together, so that new and innovative research can occur. Some of the UGA-based partnerships that made the Network for Engineering with Nature possible initially flourished thanks to a Presidential Seed Grant given to the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems,…
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