Tag: EWN
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Interdisciplinary team introduces Engineering With Nature® Practice Guides series
Our N-EWN partners across industry, governmental, academic and nonprofit sectors talk a lot about Engineering With Nature®, but it’s not always clear what that means or how to incorporate EWN principles within engineering projects. This team from an interdisciplinary crew of our partners is working to address that with a new series of practice guides…
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February & March Partner Podcast Roundup: Achieving Balance With Nature
Resilient Futures Podcast University of Georgia Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems It’s All Connected: A Framework for Intertwined Infrastructure Systems In February’s episode, host Alysha welcomes her own PhD student, Negin Shamsi! The duo dive into their most recent publication: Interdependency classification: a framework for infrastructure resilience. Shamsi’s research focus is infrastructure and urban resilience.…
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EWN’s Dr. Amanda Tritinger joins UGA IRIS as adjunct faculty
The University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (UGA IRIS) gained a new adjunct faculty member this month: Engineering With Nature Deputy Program Manager, Dr. Amanda Tritinger! Tritinger has worked extensively with the IRIS team as part of the Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN), which was founded jointly by USACE and IRIS in…
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Tyndall Air Force Base Resilience Program receives Presidential Sustainability Award
Congratulations to the Tyndall Air Force Base Coastal Resilience Program, which recently received a Presidential Federal Sustainability Award. These awards recognize “federal agencies and employees who have made transformational efforts to advance sustainability and climate resilience and lead by example to deliver on President Biden’s goal to slash emissions from federal operations.” Awardees were selected…
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Growth of EWN featured in UF Center for Coastal Solutions’ Directors Note
The University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS) recently published their November 2023 Director’s Note reviewing the accomplishments of CCS’s team this year. These accomplishments included their annual summit on Dec. 1, which focused on “optimizing actionable solutions for resilient coasts, in the context of the emerging risks facing our coastal communities, which call…