The Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN) invites you to join the N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature. Continuing Education Credits (1-hr) are available to all attendees who join live.
Recent Seminars
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January 2023 Knowledge Series: Application of Natural & Nature-Based Features in Channel Stabilization
David Biedenharn, Research Hydraulic Engineer, USACE Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC) Guest speaker Dr. David Biedenharn is a professional engineer with over forty years of experience in hydraulics, river engineering, sedimentation, channel…
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December 2022 Knowledge Series: Dam Removal Prioritization with Multiple Objectives
Laura Naslund, PhD candidate, University of Georgia Guest speaker Laura Catherine Naslund is a PhD candidate in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Her current research examines the contribution…
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November 2022 Knowledge Series: EWN Activities on Upper Mississippi River
Eddie Brauer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District Eddie Brauer is a senior hydraulic engineer in the USACE St. Louis District (MVS) and regional technical specialist in river…
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October 2022 Knowledge Series: Translating EWN Research into Practice: Levee Setbacks on the Lower Missouri River
Matt Chambers, University of Georgia Guest speaker Matt Chambers discusses modeling studies that he and his colleagues have performed which suggest significant hydraulic benefits in idealized streams and on the Wabash…
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September 2022 Knowledge Series: Opportunities for Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) in Unique Island Contexts: Puerto Rico
Dave Hampton, LimnoTech and Burton Suedel, ERDC-EL Our guest speakers will present EWN® highlights from the March 2022 symposium: Basin Sediment Management for Unique Island Topography: From Mountain to Estuary, featuring…
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July 2022 Knowledge Series: Consideration of Natural Infrastructure for Flood Hazard Reduction: in a numerical modeling framework
Matthew Bilskie, University of Georgia Using science and engineering to produce operational efficiencies, using natural processes to maximize benefit, increasing the value provided by projects to include social, environmental and…
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June 2022 Knowledge Series: Economic Valuation of Nature-Based Infrastructure
Ben Blachly, Susana Ferreira, Yukiko Hashida, Grace Anne Ingham, Craig E Landry & Anna Perry The common method used to calculate Benefit-cost analysis does not incorporate the often-times greater long-term benefits of natural infrastructure (NI) over…
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May 2022 Knowledge Series: Toolkit for ERDC’s Coastal Storm (CSTORM) Modeling System
Amanda Tritinger, USACE & Matthew Bilskie, UGA Currently, incorporating EWN-based flood protection and restoration designs into storm surge and wave numerical modeling systems is a time-consuming and laborious process. Leveraging codes…
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April 2022 Knowledge Series: Restoring the Nisqually River
Daniel Krenz, USACE In 2009, the tidal waters of Puget Sound breached the Brown Farm Dike in efforts to restore the Nisqually Delta. This was the culmination of the largest…
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March 2022 Knowledge Series: Refining a Vision for Future Synergy Between Infrastructure and Biodiversity Conservation
Charles van Rees, UGA This webinar focuses on the relationship between Biodiversity and its conservation and Infrastructure and related disciplines, why this is important for today’s challenges, what this relationship…
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February 2022 Knowledge Series: Monitoring and Adaptive Management in EWN Projects
Safra Altman, USACE 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…
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January 2022 Knowledge Series: Quantifying the Multi-Scale Benefits of Natural and Nature-Based Features
Todd M. Swannack, USACE Natural and nature-based features (NNBF) provide a diverse suite of benefits to society, including flood risk reduction, socio-economic development, water and food security, and habitat. Unlike…