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Partner Takeover: Natrx
This week, meet Natrx: Adaptive Infrastructure that provides high-performance, nature-based restoration and resilience. Natrx provides practical, sustainable, and landscape-scale resilience solutions that are high-performance, cost-efficient, and harmonious with their surroundings. Through a comprehensive technology platform, Natrx helps practitioners and asset owners identify, address, and monitor resilience challenges with habitat-positive, nature-based solutions. Stay tuned to learn…
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USACE experts to host Engineering With Nature Workshop at State of the Coast 2025 this month
Are you attending State of the Coast in New Orleans this month? Would you like to deepen your understanding of natural infrastructure and its role in building resilient, sustainable systems? Join us for an immersive short course hosted by the Network for Engineering With Nature. This course brings together leading experts from across USACE, ERDC…
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EWN introduces 8 new natural infrastructure research projects
The Engineering With Nature® website is full of information on the innovative collaborations between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other natural infrastructure organizations around the world. The newest resource on the website is their updated Active Research Archive, which hosts informational pages for eight impressive projects in the nature-based solutions space. Check them…
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Partner Takeover: USACE Engineering With Nature
Our next Partner Takeover is our second founding partner, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature® initiative! EWN is proud to be a founding partner of the Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN), launched in 2019 to accelerate the implementation of natural infrastructure through collaborative science, tools, and training. Founded by USACE in…
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NCCOS Helps Military with Long-term Resiliency at Coastal Installations
With coastal military installations increasingly impacted by surrounding urban areas, climate change, and sea level rise, DOD is implementing ecosystem-based management to achieve long-term resiliency at its facilities. To help protect U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from more frequent flooding, NOAA NCCOS scientists implemented nature-based ecosystem and shoreline management practices. This…
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Flood Control Work Begins at USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial
High tides overwhelm the only access road and submerge large parts of the parking lot at USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial. NCCOS scientists have partnered with Battleship NORTH CAROLINA, providing data to help design and guide a restoration project that will preserve access to the memorial, which will elevate part of the parking lot and…
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Partner Takeover: NCCOS
Next up in our Partner Takeover series, NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science! The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) was founded in 1999 to support NOAA’s scientific mission and coastal manadates, delivering high-quality science to coastal communities and its federal, state, academic, and public partners. Our scientists work with N-EWN partners to…
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Stantec releases 18th annual sustainability report
Our partners at Stantec released their 2024 Sustainability Report this Earth Day, reporting C$4.63 billion in 2024 revenue aligned with core sustainable development goals. This is the 18th annual report of its kind for the engineering firm, showing a dedication to sustainability. Key milestones include: “Stantec’s integrated approach to sustainability delivers long-term value and underpins…
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The True Value of Nature in the Ohio River Basin
This Earth Day, the Earth Economics team has published a study coauthored with the Ohio River Basin Alliance (ORBA) on the economic value that the Ohio River Basin provides, with staggering results: at least $50 billion in annual benefits- and that’s not all. The Ohio River Basin is approximately 69 million acres of land across…
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Finding homes for future fowl: Ducks Unlimited student heads into the lowcountry to assess waterfowl habitat
Our partners at the University of Georgia Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and conservation nonprofit Ducks Unlimited have been collaborating for years, but one of their biggest projects is the Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellowship: Master’s students in a variety of fields are funded by Ducks Unlimited to work towards a better future for wetlands. One…