Tag: IRIS
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White House Invest in Nature Summit
Last week, N-EWN representatives Brian Bledsoe and Todd Bridges, from the University of Georgia, attended the Invest in Nature Summit, hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Also in attendance was UGA Provost Jack Hu, who participated on a panel discussing the role of natural infrastructure workforce development. To read the…
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Earth Day Event at Fort Benning
Yesterday, N-EWN member Scott Pippin celebrated Earth Day at Ft. Benning, Georgia, where he represented the Defense Community Program, which is a joint effort between the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, and UGA Marine Extension and Georgia SeaGrant. The program focuses on bolstering the resilience of defense bases and…
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Beneficial Use of Dredge Materials: Video Highlight
N-EWN Partners Dr. Rhett Jackson, Dr. Mark Risse, Oscar Villegas, and Caleb Sytsma joined USACE Savannah District Biologist Summer Wright to visit the Marinex cutter suction dredge Hampton Roads on the upper Savannah River Harbor to learn more about standard dredging operations.
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Don’t miss out! Upcoming N-EWN Events & Media
Live Lecture: Engineering the Nature of Change TONIGHT 7 FEB, 6:30 PM CT The first lecture in this five-part series features Dr. Todd Bridges, National Lead for USACE Engineering With Nature®. Dr. Bridges will speak about Innovating for a More Resilient and Sustainable Future. The series is one of only two Presidential Dream Courses held by…
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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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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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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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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…