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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Webinar: Feedback for USACE’s proposed updates to agency-specific procedures
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has published a new draft of agency-specific procedures for implementing Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines for Federal Investments in Water Resources. The public is invited to comment until April 15. View the full rulemaking docket here. A team of affiliates from the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems at the…
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Next week: ERDC Live spotlights the Engineering With Nature (EWN) Program
Please join the Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) on LinkedIn on Wednesday, April 3 at 10 a.m. CT for the next ERDC Live. The event will feature Drs. Jeff King and Amanda Tritinger from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering With Nature® program, an innovative nature-based research program that was fostered at ERDC…
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Researchers from UGA and EWN present at Missouri River Natural Resources Committee Conference
Affiliate researchers from the University of Georgia Charles van Rees and Matt Chambers attended the Missouri River Natural Resources Committee 2024 Conference in Nebraska City, Nebraska. They were joined by EWN Practice Lead Dave Crane and University of South Dakota professor Mark Dixon. The group led a 4-part plenary around their NASA-funded project that will leverage satellite imagery, artificial intelligence and…
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