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Stantec Summarizes COP27
N-EWN partner, Stantec, recently attended the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (or Conference of Parties), where they summarized weekly activities and overarching themes in a weekly overview called SCOPE27. Here’s what Stantec had to say about the conference and their involvement: Thirty years ago, the world’s first global environmental treaty acknowledged that earth’s climate…
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Researcher feature: Charles Van Rees
N-EWN researcher Charles Van Rees was recently featured in an article by the Odum School of Ecology. In the article, he speaks specifically to the power of interdisciplinary research: “We sit there and try to communicate across huge differences in expertise, professional culture and vocabulary, and then we write cool interdisciplinary papers that bring all…
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S4 E10 – Nature-Based Solutions to Landscape-Architecture Challenges
In Episode 10, hosts Sarah Thorne and Jeff King, Deputy Lead of the Engineering With Nature® Program at the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), are talking with Kotchakorn Voraakhom (“Kotch”), an international member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and founder of Bangkok-based landscape architecture company LANDPROCESS, and Derek Hoeferlin, Chair of the…
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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 engineering for the Mississippi Valley Division. He has 19 years of project experience, which includes navigation; environmental restoration; research on river training structures, including physical effects and environmental impacts; sediment…
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Join us for the N-EWN Knowledge Series!
The Network for Engineering With Nature® (EWN) invites you to the N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature: EWN and Upper Mississippi Activities. This 1-hour Webinar will take place on Zoom on Nov. 17, 2022 at 12:30 ET. Edward Brauer is a senior hydraulic engineer in the USACE St. Louis District (MVS) and regional technical specialist in river engineering for the Mississippi Valley Division. He has 19 years of project experience, which includes navigation; environmental restoration; research on river-training structures, including physical effects and environmental impacts; sediment transport; geomorphology; field methods; and lock design on rivers within the U.S., South America, and Europe. He has developed and led classes on shallow draft navigation and river-training-structure design and construction (including EWN topics)…
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N-EWN in the Whitehouse
The Network for Engineering With Nature has two exciting updates from the Whitehouse today! Accelerating Nature-Based Solutions Leaders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature® initiative provided input on a White House report released Tuesday. EWN National Lead Dr. Todd Bridges and EWN Program Manager Dr. Jeff King provided input to the…
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Thesis Defense: Modeling Oyster Reef Resilience with Rebecca Stanley
Join us for a N-EWN graduate student’s thesis defense! Rebecca Stanley, MS candidate in Civil & Environmental Engineering with Emphasis in Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering, University of Georgia will defend her thesis: “Modeling Oyster Reef Resilience as a Form of Nature-Based Infrastructure in Response to Local Hydrodynamic Conditions” The application of nature-based infrastructure (NBI) has become…
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Natural infrastructure feature of the month: urban trees
Most people don’t stop to consider the trees that they pass each day as they go about their business in cities around the world, but these urban trees provide important functions for our homes and neighborhoods, including cooling ambient temperatures, purifying and absorbing rainwater, and absorbing carbon dioxide. The cooling properties of urban trees are…
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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 River. This research is being translated into practice on the Lower Missouri River in partnership with the USACE Omaha District, ERDC, and local levee district managers.…
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Rainwater Harvesting with Cisterns
Whether it’s at the turn of a faucet or a bucket from the well, every person in the world relies on having clean water. In Ceará, Brazil, where water scarcity is an issue, communities rely on collected rainfall in cisterns to ensure that they have access to water through the year. Cydney Seigerman, a PhD…
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Sizing up marshes for flood prevention
Just how big do coastal marshes need to be to do their job as protectors of the coastline? N-EWN researchers from the University of Georgia, Viyaktha Hithaishi Hewageegana, Matt Bilskie, Brock Woodson, and Brian Bledsoe investigated the matter by running simulations that tested how changes in marsh geometry impacted the storm surge and amount of…
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First N-EWN All Partners Meeting
This week, all the N-EWN partners met in conjunction for the first time to define our broad strategic vision, outline expectations for working together, and set the wheels in motion for awesome collaborations. We’re so excited by all the great ideas and potential for partnership!
The Network for Engineering With Nature