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Episode #4: EWN’s Synergies with the World Bank’s Approach to Natural Infrastructure.  In 2020, natural hazards like storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires caused more than $200 billion in damage worldwide and the death of 8,000 people. Since 1980, there have been 285 weather and climate-related disasters in the United States alone that have produced at least $1 billion in…

Recently, N-EWN researchers studying the role of natural infrastructure in addressing inequity in water resources presented their work at the 2021 Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting. See the recorded talk below! Presentation Title: The Use of Nature-Based Solutions to Address Inequities within Water Resources Projects Authors: Seigerman, Cydney K., Biesel, Shelly A., and Nelson,…

We’re proud to announce that our partners at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are launching the Engineering with Nature, an Atlas, Volume 2 tomorrow. The Atlas showcases 62 projects from around the world that illustrate the principles and practices of Engineering With Nature. The Atlas was developed to communicate the diversity of projects, contexts,…

We’re excited to announce the addition of three new colleagues to the N-EWN team: Dr. Andressa Mansur, Dr. Charles van Rees, and Dr. Hithaishi Hewageegana. These researchers will further the N-EWN mission by leveraging their combined expertise in engineering, socio-ecological systems, numerical modeling, ecology, biology, marine and coastal management.

On March 7th, 2021, N-EWN partners from the Institute of Resilient Infrastructure Systems and the Water Institute of the Gulf published a perspective piece in the Washington Post titled, How nature can help solve our infrastructure crisis amid extreme weather, climate change. In the article, Director of IRIS, Dr. Brian Bledsoe and Director of TWIG, Dr. Justin Ehrenswerth made the…

The University of Georgia’s Presidential Seed Grants are intended to bring leading researchers from different expertises together, so that new and innovative research can occur. Some of the UGA-based partnerships that made the Network for Engineering with Nature possible initially flourished thanks to a Presidential Seed Grant given to the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems,…

We’re excited by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)’s announcement that natural infrastructure is recognized as a key solution for building resilience and raising the grade across all infrastructure sectors in the ASCE Report Card for America’s Infrastructure!

On March 9th, Scott Pippin and Shana Jones will be presenting a new paper, Stabilizing the Edge:  Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic Shorescapes Facing Sea-Level Rise, at Columbia Law School’s annual Climate Change Symposium.  An article also will appear in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law in the spring.  In the article, the researchers analyze ocean-facing and estuarine protection laws…

Your name: Kyle McKay Your job title: Research Civil Engineer Tell us a bit about your job: I am a research civil engineer for the Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. Although our labs are in Mississippi, I am stationed in New York City to collaborate with the USACE New…

The Water Institute of the Gulf Joins the Network for Engineering With Nature® (Athens, Georgia) This January, the Network for Engineering With Nature added a new member to the team: The Water Institute of the Gulf (the Water Institute) will join the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) and the U.S. Army…

As a part of recognizing the 10th anniversary of the Engineering With Nature® initiative, the Engineering With Nature® team developed two new videos that feature some of our collaborators and partners across the country and around the world, providing their greetings and thoughts about EWN®, now and in the future.  Both the short version video (2…