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What is Infrastructure?
Head over to our partners at the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems to learn about how natural systems can be included in the definition of infrastructure. We’ve broadened the definition to include the natural systems that help support our society by transporting and purifying drinking water, absorbing run off, preventing erosion and absorbing carbon dioxide–to…
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Join the N-EWN team! Post-doctoral positions available.
Modeling and Monitoring Position https://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/222002 The College of Engineering wishes to appoint a Post-Doctoral Scholar to work on a grant funded research project: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Engineering with Nature Initiative for a period of 1 year with additional employment dependent on the needs of the project. In this role they will be…
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November 2021 Knowledge Series: Operationalizing Equity for Integrated Water Resources
Don Nelson, UGA Advancing social equity has been implicitly and explicitly central to international water resources policy for decades. However, water resources planning sometimes fail to fully embrace this crucial concept. Inclusion of equity within water resources infrastructure is often inhibited by an incomplete conceptual understanding of equity, a perceived lack of quantitative and qualitative…
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Latest EWN podcast is out! Featuring N-EWN graduate students
These students represent three of the academic institutions associated with the Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN) initiated in October of 2020. Education and research are at the heart of the N-EWN. In this episode, we discuss the journeys of Matt, Justine, and Joseph–how they got interested in environmental science, engineering, natural infrastructure, EWN, and…
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Brian Bledsoe and Don Nelson Explore the Important of Taking Cues from Nature
“Infrastructure must become more resilient as the global climate changes and also more affordable in the economic and political context of a post-COVID world. We can solve this dual challenge and drive global infrastructure investment into a more sustainable direction by taking our cues from Nature,” write Brian Bledsoe and Don Nelson, along with several…
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October 2021 Knowledge Series: Living Shoreline Policy
Shana Jones & Scott Pippin, UGA Adapting shoreline stabilization infrastructure and approaches to sea-level rise will require measures that improve federal, state, and local governance mechanisms; promote nature-based management practices; and change property owner behavior that affects coastal areas. This presentation focuses on shoreline stabilization law and policy, specifically the ocean-facing and estuarine protection laws in…
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N-EWN Graduate Student, Sheppard Medlin, shares N-EWN work at ASBPA
Sheppard Medlin, who is pursuing his Master of Engineering at UGA, shared the work he is doing with Dr. Matt Bilskie on scaling natural infrastructure at the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association national conference. Sheppards poster is available here. The “scaling natural infrastructure” project is working to answer the following research questions: 1) Traditionally,…
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Workshop Recap: Beneficial Use of Dredge Materials
Written by Amanda Tritinger On July 13-15, 2021, 58 representatives from USACE HQ, 2 USACE Divisions, 14 USACE Districts, and USACE ERDCs’ Environmental (EL) and Coastal Hydraulics (CHL) Laboratories came together and participated in a virtual workshop on the beneficial use (BU) of dredged material. The workshop was co-hosted by Dr. Amanda Tritinger (ERDC-CHL) and…
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Story map: At what scale does natural infrastructure make the biggest impact?
N-EWN researchers Dr. Matt Bilskie (Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering, University of Georgia) and Dr. Amanda Tritinger (Research Hydraulic Engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and their team of collaborators set out to find out. It can be difficult to assess the real-world impacts of a natural infrastructure project, so the…
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September 2021 Knowledge Series: Characterizing USACE EWN Projects
Brook Herman, USACE This presentation reviews the current EWN ProMap and how proposed changes to the online database will increase our ability to track and assess how well projects are contributing to multiple environmental, economic, and social benefits. Proposed changes to the data entry field include information on what assessment methods were used to calculate…
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Next week: Kicking off the N-EWN Knowledge Series with Brook Herman!
The Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN) invites you to join us for The N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature. The next webinar will be held on Tuesday, September 21 at 12:30 EST at which Brook Herman (PhD, USACE-ERDC) will be sharing about characterizing USACE EWN projects and progress on…
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Join us for the virtual launch of International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management!
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will hold a virtual international launch event with its partners on Sept. 16 at 10 a.m. CDT, to celebrate release of the seminal publication, International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) for Flood Risk Management. The new guidelines will inform strategies to reduce flood risk and improve…
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