This past week, N-EWN member Dr. Todd Bridges testified at the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works oversight hearing entitled, “The Role of Natural and Nature-Based Features in Water Resources Projects. “We’re fueling natural and nature-based solutions with collaboration,” Bridges said of the U.S. Army Corps’ work on natural infrastructure. To watch…

In 2020, the United States experienced extreme droughts, wildfires, flooding, and a record number of hurricanes. What if there was a better way to monitor and prepare for these natural events, and how could an Engineering With Nature (EWN) approach add value to “the climate change imperative?” That’s what we’re exploring in this episode with…

Last week, N-EWN researcher Dr. Rod Lammers presented his research as part of the N-EWN initiative at the 20th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society. His presentation featured work by himself, Dr. Matthew Chambers, Dr. Matthew V. Bilskie and Dr. Brian P. Bledsoe, and was titled “Engineering With Nature: Using levee setbacks to…

Fighting Flooding As flood hazards and risks increase over time due to climate change and increased development in flood zones, N-EWN researchers seek new ways to both predict future flood risks and address those risks through new technologies. University of Georgia researcher at the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Dr. Matthew V. Bilskie, is working…

Episode #4: EWN’s Synergies with the World Bank’s Approach to Natural Infrastructure.  In 2020, natural hazards like storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires caused more than $200 billion in damage worldwide and the death of 8,000 people. Since 1980, there have been 285 weather and climate-related disasters in the United States alone that have produced at least $1 billion in…

Recently, N-EWN researchers studying the role of natural infrastructure in addressing inequity in water resources presented their work at the 2021 Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting. See the recorded talk below! Presentation Title: The Use of Nature-Based Solutions to Address Inequities within Water Resources Projects Authors: Seigerman, Cydney K., Biesel, Shelly A., and Nelson,…

We’re proud to announce that our partners at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are launching the Engineering with Nature, an Atlas, Volume 2 tomorrow. The Atlas showcases 62 projects from around the world that illustrate the principles and practices of Engineering With Nature. The Atlas was developed to communicate the diversity of projects, contexts,…

We’re excited to announce the addition of three new colleagues to the N-EWN team: Dr. Andressa Mansur, Dr. Charles van Rees, and Dr. Hithaishi Hewageegana. These researchers will further the N-EWN mission by leveraging their combined expertise in engineering, socio-ecological systems, numerical modeling, ecology, biology, marine and coastal management.

On March 7th, 2021, N-EWN partners from the Institute of Resilient Infrastructure Systems and the Water Institute of the Gulf published a perspective piece in the Washington Post titled, How nature can help solve our infrastructure crisis amid extreme weather, climate change. In the article, Director of IRIS, Dr. Brian Bledsoe and Director of TWIG, Dr. Justin Ehrenswerth made the…

The University of Georgia’s Presidential Seed Grants are intended to bring leading researchers from different expertises together, so that new and innovative research can occur. Some of the UGA-based partnerships that made the Network for Engineering with Nature possible initially flourished thanks to a Presidential Seed Grant given to the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems,…