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Growth of EWN featured in UF Center for Coastal Solutions’ Directors Note
The University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS) recently published their November 2023 Director’s Note reviewing the accomplishments of CCS’s team this year. These accomplishments included their annual summit on Dec. 1, which focused on “optimizing actionable solutions for resilient coasts, in the context of the emerging risks facing our coastal communities, which call…
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Engineering With Nature recently featured by U.S. Department of Defense
In a recent article, DOD Officials Highlight Climate and Energy Security Issues at International Conference, Assistant Secretary of the Army Rachel Jacobsen spoke to the Engineering With Nature initiative’s ability to help create resilient communities. “The Army is focused on solutions,” she said. “We use ‘Engineering with Nature’ to bolster infrastructure resilience, and we are working…
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N-EWN at ASCE INSPIRE
N-EWN at ASCE INSPIRE Nov. 16-18, 2023 A number of N-EWN partners were represented at the American Society for Civil Engineers’ INSPIRE Conference this past November. The conference took place over three days (Thursday, Nov 16 – Saturday, Nov. 18) in Arlington, Virginia, and several of our affiliates gave presentations, showed posters, or spoke in…
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N-EWN team to leverage AI, remote sensing for NASA-funded conservation project
In a grant project focused on levee setbacks, UGA scientists are filling a critical gap in biodiversity benefit assessment for USACE. ATHENS, Ga., Nov. 9, 2023—NASA recently awarded $600,000 to a project spearheaded by University of Georgia scientists Charles van Rees and Seth Wenger. The project, funded by a Research Opportunities in Space and Earth…
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On ecological restoration projects and landscape design processes: a recap from the October N-EWN Highlights meeting
At our October Monthly Highlights meeting for N-EWN Partner members, affiliates Christopher Streb, Senior Ecological Engineer at Biohabitats, and Kelsey Broich, Creative Design Specialist with the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, presented respectively on the Regeneration Principle of ecological restoration projects and landscape design processes. Streb gave examples of projects Biohabitats has worked on, such…
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EWN S6 E7 2023-A Conversation With Passionate Dune Stewards
The latest episode of the Engineering With Nature podcast, hosted by Sarah Thorne, features Deputy Lead of the Engineering With Nature Program Amanda Tritinger, Research Hydraulic Engineer Duncan Bryant, and Research Oceanographer Nick Cohn: a team united by their love of sand dunes.
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N-EWN Knowledge Series: Tribal Engagement and Engineering with Nature: TNTCX, I-TEK, and EWN
Join us for the latest N-EWN Knowledge Series: Tribal Engagement and Engineering with Nature: TNTCX, I-TEK, and EWN Thursday at 12 p.m. EST, over Zoom Summary: Brian A. Zettle is a Senior Biologist and Tribal Liaison for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tribal Nations Technical Center of Expertise (TNTCX) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, working…
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San Antonio Project Turns Flood Control Channel into Thriving Urban Ecosystem
San Antonio Project Turns Flood Control Channel into Thriving Urban Ecosystem By Lee Marlowe, Sustainable Landscape Ecologist The Mission Reach Ecosystem Restoration and Recreation Project covers hundreds of acres of the San Antonio River and its riparian zone just south of downtown San Antonio. It has also led to an expansion of San Antonio’s famous…
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Don’t miss the latest EWN podcast: S6 E7 A Conversation With Passionate Dune Stewards
S6 E7 A Conversation With Passionate Dune Stewards About This Episode If you’ve ever walked along a beach, you’ve likely noticed the dunes, the mounds of sand that have been formed by the wind. But have you ever thought about what those dunes do and how important they are? Perhaps not; our guests certainly have.…
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N-EWN Member Dr. Amber Wutich named a 2023 MacArthur fellow
We are immensely proud to share that Dr. Amber Wutich, a N-EWN member from Arizona State University, has been named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Wutich specializes in water insecurity, and investigates its impacts on human well-being. Her work was recently covered by NPR, where they referred to her “groundbreaking research showing how social structures[…] are used…