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N-EWN Knowledge Series: Remote Sensing Capabilities to Support EWN Projects
Join us this Thursday, May 16 at 12:30pm ET for the next N-EWN Knowledge Series: Remote Sensing Capabilities to Support EWN Projects. The speakers for this month are from USACE ERDC’s Environmental Lab: There is an increasing opportunity and number of EWN® projects seeking support to use remotely sensed data and geospatial methodologies to help quantify…
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Nature At Work: Are these cicadas magicians or mathematicians?
Depending on where you live, you might have noticed a new winged critter popping up… everywhere. Don’t worry! Despite their giant, buzzing wings, unending eerie song, and those bright red eyes, cicadas aren’t here to do any harm. And this year, they’re actually a natural event you won’t want to miss. These cicadas are known…
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New publication: Human well-being and natural infrastructure
In a new paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, authors from the U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC) explore the psychological, physiological, medical, and social benefits to humans of exposure to nature, and how natural infrastructure (NI) projects can take these into account to continue to deliver those benefits. The authors…
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IRIS affiliates file comments on USACE proposed Agency Specific Procedures
Originally published here by UGA’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems. Article by Yee Huang, UGA. IRIS affiliates are contributing their expertise as the US Army Corps of Engineers updates its policies for evaluating potential new civil works projects. The Corps recently proposed new Agency Specific Procedures (ASPs) to implement the Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines (PR&G). IRIS Director Brian Bledsoe, along…
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Partner Podcasts: Resilience in the Past… and to the Future!
This month, our partners’ podcasts looked backwards and forwards at resilience practices! The Resilient Futures Podcast – Expect the Unexpected: Resilience and Life Advice from the Late Bronze Age On the Resilient Futures Podcast, produced by the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, hosts Alysha Helmrich and Todd Bridges welcomed anthropologist and historian…
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PhD in Review: Laura Naslund, UGA, reflects on her dissertation journey
Originally published here by The University of Georgia Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems. I first interviewed Laura Naslund as the sun rose over a pond near Watkinsville, Georgia in June of 2022. I was an intern at the River Basin Center helping with Naslund’s field work, and we had just finished two hours of paddling a canoe…
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Duke University hosts panel on sustainable infrastructure
At a recent symposium hosted by Duke University, experts from across academic, governance and NGO sectors exchanged ideas about accelerating sustainable infrastructure development. “I’d like to think that we’re entering a renaissance period in civil engineering with the opportunities that are before us,” said Todd Bridges, Professor of Practice in Resilient and Sustainable Systems at…
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Partner Profile: Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, UC Santa Cruz
Building coastal resilience by engaging partners, fostering leaders, and addressing the challenges from climate change in California and beyond with a strategic focus in 6 key areas: The Center supports projects that bring together researchers and practitioners to build innovative climate solutions. Project leads come from across campus in all divisions, including Arts, Humanities, Social…
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Happy Earth Day! Introducing Nature At Work
It’s Earth Day, so we’d like to talk about some of our favorite environmental engineers: Mangroves! The term mangrove actually refers to over 70 species of trees and shrubs that share common characteristics: namely, the ability to live partially submerged in salt water. Mangroves live in tropical and sub-tropical intertidal zones around the world, lining…
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New report: Embracing biodiversity in coastal infrastructure
A research team from the US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (USACE ERDC) and the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (UGA IRIS) recently published a new technical report titled “Embracing Biodiversity on Engineered Coastal Infrastructure through Structured Decision-Making and Engineering With Nature®. Abstract: Extreme weather variation, natural disasters,…
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April 2024 Knowledge Series: CarbonWATCH – Assessing Your Carbon Inventory at the Landscape Level Using Geospatial Technology
Grant Wiseman, Brendan Player & Dr. Martha Farella, Stantec As climate change becomes an increasing threat, and organizations across the globe are setting ambitious net zero and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, assessing, inventorying, and monitoring carbon stock in plants and soils has become vitally important to a variety of businesses and sectors. Stantec’s CarbonWATCH tool measures the…
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April Monthly Highlights Recap
At our April Monthly Highlights meeting, we welcomed speakers from two of our newest partners: Derek Schlea from LimnoTech and Andrew Rella from ECOncrete. Derek Schlea, a senior ecological engineer at LimnoTech, gave a detailed description of a project demonstrating how wetlands contribute to large-scale water quality. The study site for this project was a…
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