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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Conference Recap: City of Austin WPD at SFS 2025
Team members from Austin, Texas’ Watershed Protection Department were delighted to attend the Society of Freshwater Science conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico in May 2025. Here’s a quick recap: Angel Santiago presented our latest results on modeling sediment and water quality in Austin. The modeling mimics conditions under storm and base flow and was…
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Partner Takeover: City of Austin, TX Watershed Protection Department
Introducing our next partner takeover: The City of Austin Watershed Protection Department! Austin, Texas’ Watershed Protection Department (WPD) has submitted the several exciting manuscripts for publication, focusing on nature-based solutions for healthy watersheds. Here’s a sneak peak at what their team has been working on: Lindsay Olinde (WPD), along with Drs. Robert Hawley and Nora…
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Restoration Projects- Bigger in Texas!
Next in the takeover, we bring you to Texas, where Resource Environmental Solutions has completed one of the largest Permittee-Responsible Mitigation (PRM) projects in the country. As part of the North Texas Municipal Lake Project, RES restored more than 17,000 acres of land and water resources to offset the environmental impacts of a new reservoir…
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