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New Podcast: Engineering With Nature Practice Leads Sharing Expertise through the EWN Cadre
In Episode 3, the EWN Practice Leads return to talk about how they’re solving challenges, advancing EWN implementation through the EWN Implementation Cadre, and sharing what they are learning with other practitioners. Host Sarah Thorne and Jeff King, Deputy Lead of the Engineering With Nature Program at the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), are joined…
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Natural Infrastructure Highlight: Oyster Reefs
This month’s natural infrastructure feature is the oyster reef! Oysters are more than just delicious: they also serve as a key tool in protecting communities from storms and flooding. When they aren’t being gulped down at trendy restaurants, they naturally form dense reefs along our coastlines that help to slow the movement of water. Aw…
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Predicting Uncertainty: N-EWN researcher develops models to more accurately predict and map flood zones
Flooding in urban areas cost Americans over $106 billion dollars from 1960 through 2016 in damage, and took lives and livelihoods. Predicting which areas are most likely to flood amid changing land use and rainfall can be expensive and complicated—and past methods of drawing flood maps fail to capture the inherent uncertainty in flood predictions.…
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High Energy Roundtable with the EWN Leads: Episode 2, Season 4
Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 4! EWN Practice Leads play a critical role in broadening and expanding the application of Engineering With Nature practices and nature-based solutions. Host Sarah Thorne and Jeff King, Deputy Lead of the Engineering With Nature Program at the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), are joined by a roundtable…
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Join us Thursday for the N-EWN Knowledge Seminar!
The Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN) invites you to join us for the N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature. The next webinar, Consideration of Natural Infrastructure for Flood Hazard Reduction in a Numerical Modeling Framework, will be held on Thursday, May 19th at 12:30 EST, presented by Amanda Tritinger (USACE) and Matthew Bilskie (UGA). Currently, incorporating EWN-based flood protection…
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Faces of Resiliency
In a recent feature, the UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant highlighted the ways in which communities are bolstering their resiliency to severe weather events. This series featured the work of several UGA N-EWN members, including Brian Bledsoe, UGA Athletic Association Professor & Director, UGA College of Engineering, Jessica Brown, Stormwater Specialist, UGA Marine Extension and…
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Happening today! The NASEM Benefits, Applications and Opportunities of Natural Infrastructure Workshop
We’re excited that the NASEM Benefits, Applications and Opportunities of Natural Infrastructure Workshop is finally happening! The event explores the benefits, applications, and opportunities of natural infrastructure and its efficacy in areas such as natural hazard resilience, climate change adaptation, and sustainable, multi-purpose infrastructure. N-EWN Member Dr. Marshall Shepherd snapped the photo above of Provost…
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Stream N-EWN Knowledge Seminars
Missed a N-EWN Knowledge Seminar that you were hoping to catch? Now you can stream them all on the Engineering With Nature website. Check them out here!
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Learning from past projects: new paper published on a monitoring approach for improving natural infrastructure
The N-EWN monitoring team recently published a paper in Science of the Total Environment, titled “A strategic monitoring approach for learning to improve natural infrastructure.” This paper gets at the important role that long term monitoring plays in helping us to improve designs for natural infrastructure projects, and ensure that they’re functioning as they should.…
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N-EWN Partners win University of Georgia, Office of Research Awards
This past week, the University of Georgia’s Office of Research announced the winners of the 43rd annual Research Awards. Sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, the awards recognize UGA faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students for excellence and innovation in research, scholarly creativity, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. N-EWN and IRIS had several faculty…