Alan James Kennedy, Andrew D. McQueen, Burton C. Suedel, Mark L. Ballentine, Sarah Thorne, Delta C. Newman, Jonna A. Boyda, Lauren R. May, Alyssa J. Calomeni-Eck, David W. Moore, Lucy K. Slattery, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Michael J. Bortner, Adam Friedman, Jeffrey P. Youngblood, Pablo Zavattieri, and Narayanan Neithalath

Natural infrastructure—crucial for coastal resilience, flood risk management, and ecosystem services—confronts escalating challenges from rising seas, erosion, storms, and human impacts. Innovative approaches are needed to enhance infrastructure functionality and broaden social, economic, and env...

Sarah Copertino, Amanda S. Tritinger, and Courtney E. Chambers

This Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) technical note introduces the EWN Compass: Implementation Toolbox for Natural and Nature-Based Features—a user-friendly, web-based application developed using Esri ArcGIS Online. Designed to support practitioners in selecting and integrating natural and nature...

Lihwa Lin, Yan Ding, Douglas R. Krafft, Scott L. Spurgeon, Brian C. McFall, C. Brock Woodson, and Catherine R. Edwards

This report provides numerical model results to assist the US Army Corps of Engineers–Savannah District (SAS). These results evaluate beneficial use alternatives for the sediment from an advance maintenance widener of the Brunswick Harbor Entrance Channel between stations −14+000 and −28+000. Thi...

Peter A. Tereszkiewicz, Leigh A. Provost, and Cassandra Everett

The primary objective of this technical note is to provide a US-centric review on historic and current management approaches for dune stabilization efforts. This includes methods for promoting dune formation via natural aeolian processes, as well as more hands-on management approaches, including ...

Jacob Z. Cheng, Jacob F. Berkowitz and John R. White

The intentional thin layer placement (TLP) of dredged sediment is an increasingly popular approach to maintaining marsh elevation and restoring degraded marshes, which can improve conditions for vegetation establishment. Prior TLP restoration projects, assessed shortly after construction, evaluat...

Burton C. Suedel, E. Michelle Bourne, Jack W. Milazzo, and Jenni J. K. Snibbe

Since its launch in 2021, the Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) program has funded research focused in a variety of environments, particularly along marine and freshwater coasts and fluvial (riverine) systems. Until recently, there has been less focus on applying EWN principles in urban landscapes ...