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N-EWN Advisory Board Meeting
This week marked the first in-person convening of the N-EWN advisory board, which took place at LimnoTech’s Washington D.C. office on Tuesday, January 31st and Monday, February 1st, 2023. With 12 out of 13 partners represented, this meeting provided an important opportunity for partners to form connections and strategize on continued collaboration. Over the course…
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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 restoration, and fluvial geomorphology. He is presently a Research Hydraulic Engineer with the USACE Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC). He has been a leader in advancing…
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New Graduate Assistantship Opportunities
Ph.D. Student Assistantship in Atmospheric Science/Coastal Engineering Position Description: The University of Georgia (UGA) Department of Geography (https://geography.uga.edu/) and the School of Environmental, Civil, Agriculture, and Mechanical Engineering (https://engineering.uga.edu/schools/ecam) is seeking a highly-motivated Ph.D. student to begin Fall 2023. The graduate student will work under Dr. Matthew Bilskie and Dr. Marshall Shepherd with an affiliation…
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New Article: Engineering with Nature to Face Down Hurricane Hazards
As coastal communities grow and severe weather events intensify, there is a growing need for information about the best ways to keep towns and cities safe. However, a lack of monitoring information about the protection provided by natural infrastructure, like berms and dunes, has limited managers’ ability to use them as tools. A new paper,…
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New article: Benefit-Cost Analysis of Green Infrastructure Investments: Application to Small Urban Projects in Hinesville, GA
Is there an economic benefit to implementing small-scale natural infrastructure projects in urban areas? N-EWN researchers Scott Pippin, Craig Landry and Mohammadreza Zarei addressed that question in their recent publication, “Benefit-Cost Analysis of Green Infrastructure Investments: Application to Small Urban Projects in Hinesville, GA.” Hinesville made the perfect case study, as it’s located in the…
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Use of Natural and Nature-Based Features in Estuarine Systems
At the 11th National Summit on Coastal and Estuarine Restoration and Management, a N-EWN team, including Amanda Tritinger, Jeff King (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), Matthew Bilskie (University of Georgia, IRIS), and Justin Ehrenwerth (the Water Institute of the Gulf) hosted a short course on Engineering With Nature practices. The full day workshop included over…
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S5 E2 EWN Podcast: Nature-Based Solutions from the Halls of the Exec Office of the PresidentS5 E2 EWN Podcast:
What happens when a nation focuses on addressing the critical challenges posed by climate change by investing in nature? That’s what we’re talking about in Season 5, Episode 2, of the Engineering With Nature® Podcast. Host Sarah Thorne and Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the…
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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 of small dams and their reservoirs to greenhouse gas emissions from freshwaters. Proactive and transparent decision making about the long-term management of dams is critical…
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Operationalizing equity for integrated water resources management
The N-EWN People and Policy team, which consists of representatives from the University of Georgia and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently published a new paper in the Journal of American Water Resources, titles, “Operationalizing equity for integrated water resources management.” Abstract: Advancing social equity has been implicitly and explicitly central to water resources policy…
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Join us for the latest N-EWN Knowledge series with Laura Naslund!
N-EWN Knowledge Series: https://limno.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fe7hnfnSS5CvbiTpADWmXA The next Knowledge Series lecture is on December 15 at 12:30 ET. Laura Naslund, UGA, will address Dam Removal Prioritization with Multiple Objectives. Proactive and transparent decision making about the long-term management of dams is critical for successfully managing this aging infrastructure and presents an opportunity to apply Engineering with Nature principles…
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What it means to be a researcher: water science and community connections in rural Brazil
Story by Olivia Allen. Photos and captions provided by Cydney Seigerman. Originally posted to the River Basin Center website Plenty of scientists leave their comfort zone for research, but few relocate to another continent—N-EWN member and anthropology graduate student Cydney Seigerman has done it twice. In 2014, they worked as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in…
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Measuring What Matters: Towards a More Comprehensive and Equitable Evaluation of Benefits
Pictured above, Scott Pippin (second from the left) discusses promoting NBS by improving how we assess the benefits of infrastructure investments at the Measuring What Matters Summit in Washington D.C. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature® Program and The Water Institute of the Gulf, will…
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