Tag: Network for Engineering With Nature
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April 2025 Knowledge Series: Making the Case for Nature-Based Solutions: Ecosystem Services, Benefit-Cost Analyses, and Storytelling
Glen Delaney & Carson Risner, Earth Economics We all rely on services provided by nature, often in ways we don’t fully recognize. Earth Economics identifies and quantifies those benefits to ensure they are included in the decision-making process at all levels, so communities can mitigate risk, increase resilience, and protect their natural capital wealth. Awareness…
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March 2025 Knowledge Series: Leveraging Partnerships for Living Shoreline Implementation at Scale
Mary-Margaret S. McKinney, RF, Director of Coastal Restoration, Native Shorelines, a Davey Company Healthy, well-vegetated coastlines are resilient coastlines, able to withstand daily pressures and quickly recover from storm events. Unfortunately, many of our coastlines are not healthy and seem to require ever greater measures for stabilization. Traditional stabilization methods reduce or eliminate many of…
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February 2025 Knowledge Series: Engineering With Nature (EWN®)- Natural and Nature Based Features (NNBF) for Inland Fluvial Restoration
Christopher Haring, Research Physical Scientist, USACE ERDC River Engineering Branch, Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory Engineering With Nature (EWN®) and Natural and Nature Based Features (NNBF) is a principal component to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) inland fluvial watershed, Flood Risk Management (FRM), Regional Sediment Management (RSM), and Ecosystem Restoration portfolio of programs. In a…
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January 2025 Knowledge Series: Ecology and Engineering of Native Plant-Soil Interactions and Riparian Structures
Hailey N. Blackwell & Nethmi Silva, PhD Candidates, University of Oklahoma Current engineering practices and regulations regarding vegetation on levees have resulted in the predominant use of non-native, annual or perennial turf grasses. These plants typically have thin, fibrous, and shallow root structures which are maintained as turf via regular maintenance mowing which is labor…
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November 2024 Knowledge Series: The Tibbetts Brook Daylighting and Greenway Project – Restoring a Waterway in New York City
Roopesh Joshi, PE, New York City Department of Environmental Protection This presentation will discuss the Tibbetts Brook Daylighting and Greenway project. Until the late 1800s, Tibbetts Brook flowed through Westchester, into the Bronx through the Van Cortlandt plantation to Van Cortlandt Lake, and meandered its way to the Harlem River. Around 1900, Van Cortlandt Lake was…
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October 2024 Knowledge Series: The Evolution of a Resilient Coastal Community
Over 20 Years of Beaches, Back Bays, Rivers and Stormwater in Norfolk, Virginia Brian Joyner, Moffatt & Nichol, and Kelli Cunningham, Waggonner & Ball Since 2003, the City of Norfolk, Virginia has been investigating coastal/estuarine/river erosion issues, compound urban coastal floodingissues, developing long-range resilience plans, and constructing infrastructure projects to improve its diverse communities’ resilience…
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Partners Represent N-EWN at 2024 AISES Conference
Last week, a few of our partners joined forces to spread the word of N-EWN at the 2024 American Indian Science and Engineering Society National Conference (AISES) in San Antonio, Texas. The crew, made up of professionals and students from USACE, San Antonio River Authority, University of Oklahoma, Biohabitats and LimnoTech spent the day talking…
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Make a Dam Decision: Facilitating Dam Removals Through New Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis Tool
Dams across the United States are aging, with the cost to repair or remove all known deficient non-federal dams estimated at over $1.5 billion. Even for functioning dams, there may still be a number of reasons to remove them, from emissions reduction to flood risk mitigation to wildlife benefits. However, the decision to remove a…
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N-EWN paper receives Journal of American Water Resources Association Lanfear Award
We’re excited to announce that the N-EWN publication, “Operationalizing equity for integrated water resources management,” was selected to receive the Lanfear Award from the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) The publication was a dual effort between the N-EWN founding partners, the University of Georgia (UGA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). It…
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A Bright Future Ahead for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and IRIS Partnership
Originally published here by the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems. David Pittman, Director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and Director of Research and Development of the U.S. Army Corps comes to Athens Earlier this month, the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) at the University of Georgia welcomed David Pittman, Director…