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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New report: Embracing biodiversity in coastal infrastructure
A research team from the US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (USACE ERDC) and the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (UGA IRIS) recently published a new technical report titled “Embracing Biodiversity on Engineered Coastal Infrastructure through Structured Decision-Making and Engineering With Nature®. Abstract: Extreme weather variation, natural disasters,…
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April Monthly Highlights Recap
At our April Monthly Highlights meeting, we welcomed speakers from two of our newest partners: Derek Schlea from LimnoTech and Andrew Rella from ECOncrete. Derek Schlea, a senior ecological engineer at LimnoTech, gave a detailed description of a project demonstrating how wetlands contribute to large-scale water quality. The study site for this project was a…
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Next N-EWN Knowledge Series: Assessing Carbon Inventory Using Geospatial Technology
This month’s N-EWN Knowledge Series will take place Thursday, April 18th at 12:30pm ET. The webinar is titled CarbonWATCH: Assessing Your Carbon Inventory at the Landscape Level Using Geospatial Technology and features three experts from Stantec: Grant Wiseman, Brendan Player and Martha Farella. Description: As climate change becomes an increasing threat, and organizations across the…
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