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Celebrating our partners: USACE Sustainability Award – Leveraging Partnership
One of the N-EWN founding partners, the US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) program was honored with the prestigious USACE sustainability award for their remarkable achievements in leveraging partnerships. EWN stands at the forefront of transformative innovation, demonstrating the incredible potential of nature-based solutions (NBS) to enhance our nation’s infrastructure. EWN’s…
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Today: Final ASCE Nature-based Solutions Webinar
Today, 12:00 – 1:00 (ET): ASCE hosts the third and final webinar in their series on Nature-based Solutions. This webinar will i) bring together a collection of case studies that implement NbS and ii) provide insights from these case studies on practical considerations for NbS implementation including financing mechanisms, valuation of NbS ROI including co-benefits,…
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September 2023 Knowledge Series: Enhancing Benefits Evaluation for Water Resources Projects: Towards a More Comprehensive Approach for Nature-Based Solutions
Jordan Fischbach, The Water Institute The economic benefits associated with water resources projects has been the focus of federal investment decisions for decades. However, the science of quantifying and evaluating the diverse environmental, social, and economic benefits and costs of water resources projects, particularly those including Nature Based Solutions (NBS), has advanced in recent years.…
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Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability named N-EWN Partner
We’re excited to have Duke University join us amongst a group of exciting new partners. Check out their news release on joining N-EWN here. Duke University is bringing its expertise in environmental management, policy and engineering to an active community of researchers, practitioners and educators who are addressing major infrastructure challenges in the United States…
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Tomorrow: ASCE Nature-based Solutions Sustainability Webinar
This week, ASCE hosts the second of three Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Sustainability Webinars: Engineering Guidance for Nature-Based Solutions on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 from 12:00pm-1:00pm. Register here to join the webinar.
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Nature-Based Solutions for Biodiversity Handbook
A N-EWN team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the University of Georgia recently published the new Nature-Based Solutions for Biodiversity Handbook, and handbook that uses landscape architecture renderings to demonstrate how communities can use nature-based solutions to protect their communities while promoting biodiversity. Check out the handbook here!
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August 2023 Knowledge Series: Fostering Collaborative Networks to Implement Natural & Nature-Based Features In Jamaica Bay
Jonathan Hallemeier, ERDC/EWN Natural and Nature Based Features (NNBF) are promising tools in efforts to enhance social and ecological resilience to threats, such as coastal flooding exacerbated by climate-driven sea level rise and weather events. However, implementing NNBF remains a challenge – in addition to the complexity faced by any infrastructure project, NNBF projects routinely…
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EWN S6 E4 2023—The Worst Wildfire Season In Canada—What Can We Learn About Prevention?
In late June, while preparing for this episode, there were over 500 wildfires burning across Canada. Smoke from the wildfires was affecting millions of Canadians and Americans across a wide swath of North America with air quality indexes reaching extreme levels. On the day the episode was taped (July 5, 2023) there were over 625…
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Patterns, drivers, and a predictive model of dam removal cost in the United States
Patterns, drivers, and a predictive model of dam removal cost in the United States In past decades, dams were installed across the United States to help control the flow of rivers and supply water or hydroelectric energy to communities. However, these aging structures pose public safety threats, as well as disrupting aquatic ecosystems and harming…
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Graduate Student Ed Stowe featured by River Basin Center
A new story featured partially N-EWN funded research that UGA graduate student Edward Stowe did on the impacts of development on freshwater fish–and whether offsets intended to compensate for harm were effective. Article written by Cheryth Youngmann. Read the full story here!
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Don’t miss it: Improving Biological Surveys with Environmental DNA, N-EWN Knowledge Seminar
The Network for Engineering With Nature® invites you to the July N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature with Nathaniel Marshall, PhD Improving Biological Surveys with Environmental DNA on July 20, 2023, 12:30-1:30pm ET on Zoom Webinar Registration Dr. Nathaniel Marshall is an Environmental Scientist with expertise in environmental genomic applications. Nate…
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An Overview Of Natural Infrastructure – An ASCE Webinar
Nature-based solutions (NbS) hold great promise as techniques for addressing multiple crises related to aging infrastructure, biodiversity decline, and climate adaptation. Generally speaking, these solutions use natural processes to provide infrastructure outcomes while also including environmental and social co-benefits. The Fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme adopted…
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