Tag: natural infrastructure
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New publication: Nature-based solutions and compound flooding
Nature based solutions provide many benefits including mitigation of flooding impacts. Recently Dynamic Solutions, LLC collaborated with ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Lab to advance fundamental understanding of interacting flood sources through a case study that simulated varying Mississippi River flood flows during Hurricane Barry. Their analysis provides crucial insight into compound flooding processes, which can be incorporated…
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Bustling Bivalves: Dynamic Solutions and Oyster Population Modeling
Oysters provide numerous ecosystem services. From habitat creation to water filtration and energy dissipation, they are natural infrastructure. Not to mention they’re pretty darn tasty and a valuable economic resource. Coastal Louisiana is a major oyster producer, but populations are declining. There is a need for a decision-making tool that can account for system-wide oyster…
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Partner Takeover: Dynamic Solutions
We’re excited to be spotlighting Dynamic Solutions, LLC — a woman-owned small business and team of engineers, scientists, and modelers passionate about advancing nature-based solutions through cutting-edge modeling, engineering and ecological applications. At Dynamic Solutions, innovation meets impact. Their projects have examined sediment transport and flood resilience in complex river systems to enable designs that work with…
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Native Shorelines: Introducing QuickReef
Native Shorelines, a Davey company, proudly introduces its new line of intertidal and subtidal habitat reefs. Ranging from small 2′ x 2′ x 2′ units ideal for placement under homeowner docks to 4′ and 6′ QuickReef® Habitat Hives™, Native Shorelines’ habitat reefs maximize the surface area available for sessile fauna recruitment and provide amble interstitial…
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Native Shorelines: Never Cookie Cutter
Native Shorelines, a Davey company staff have dedicated their careers to environmental restoration and that dedication manifests itself in their commitment to ensuring the future resiliency of our coastal communities and habitats. No two stretches of shoreline are the same so the stabilization solution should never be cookie-cutter. Nature-based solutions excel when the right combination…
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Partner Takeover: Native Shorelines
Native Shorelines, a Davey Company is a recognized leader in living shorelines and nature-based solutions, having designed, permitted, and installed over 6 miles of living shorelines and habitat reefs from Georgia to New York. From oyster shell bags and their proprietary QuickReef living shoreline system to other alternative materials, granite, and marsh plantings, Native Shorelines’…
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Aligning Needs and Opportunities for Dual Beneficial Use of Dredged Sediment
It’s Day 4 of Anchor QEA’s media week! Today we feature our work advancing the beneficial use of dredged material (BUDM) in Virginia. We recently developed a GIS tool for the Commonwealth of Virginia that aligns beneficial use and restoration opportunities with planned dredging projects, providing stakeholders and decision-makers with the data they need for…
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Workshop: The Great Lakes Engineering With Nature Playbook
It’s Day 3 of Anchor QEA’s N-EWN media week. Today we highlight the February 2025 Great Lakes Engineering With Nature (EWN) Playbook in-person workshop, borne from our ongoing support to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Chicago, Buffalo, and Detroit Districts as part of the Great Lakes…
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Anchor QEA and UGA IRIS to lead Nature-based Solutions workshop at WODCON XXIV
For Day 2 of Anchor QEA’s media takeover, we’re excited to share our partnership with UGA’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems at WODCON XXIV for the Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Course on June 23, 2025, in San Diego. Join Anchor QEA’s Dr. Ram Mohan and collaborators, including Dr. Todd Bridges, as we explore effective NBS design,…
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Partner Takeover: Anchor QEA
Anchor QEA is excited to kick off our Network for Engineering With Nature (NEWN) takeover week by spotlighting our longstanding collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and its innovation arm, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), to support the Engineering With Nature (EWN) Initiative. Through this partnership, we have…