Webinar: September N-EWN Knowledge Series Available
The Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN) presents its latest webinar: Opportunities for Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) in Unique Island Contexts: Puerto Rico. Guest speakers, Dave Hampton (LimnoTech) and Burton Suedel (ERDC-EL), share EWN highlights from the March 2022 symposium: Basin Sediment Management for Unique Island Topography, from mountain to estuary, featuring lessons learned from site visits throughout […]
Live Event 30 Aug: Nature as a National Priority
Make sure to attend a special ERDC Live Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 10 a.m. Central, featuring a dynamic panel of national experts leading the effort to incorporate natural and nature-based engineering solutions to enhance our nation’s infrastructure and make our coastlines more resilient. Guiding the discussion will be Dr. Todd Bridges, National Lead of the […]
On-Air: ERDC Beyond the Gates
New on-air program – Beyond the Gates: How ERDC Research Affects YOU, Episode 9 is available! – featuring Dr. Amanda Tritinger, Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL): “Engineering With Nature (EWN) and Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for a better and more resilient world”. Listen here. Length: 40 minutes, Air Date: August 18, 2022
Municipal Water Leader interviews USACE EWN
In July 2022, Municipal Water Leader speaks with Dr. Todd Bridges, National lead for EWN, about scaling nature-based solutions to adverse weather and climate changes. Read the article. We need to make the exceptional nature-based projects of the past the common approach for delivering projects in the future. To do that, we need to continue to […]
Construction Zone: Jacksonville District breaks ground at W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam implementing EWN-inspired design
In 2019, the Engineering With Nature and Landscape Architecture project delivery team developed recommendations for how the W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam facility might incorporate EWN principles to create habitat along with educational and recreational opportunities. We are excited to announce that the EWN activities and associated report inspired the designs that are now being […]
EWN On The Road: The Dune Protecting Artemis
In the summer of 2022, Dr. Todd Bridges is on the road in the American Southeast. See pictures, watch video clips, and learn more about natural infrastructure uniting four federal agencies at the Cape Canaveral Complex in Florida. We drove past the rocket to the adjacent beach line to see the dune that NASA built […]
EWN® releases video: Engineering With Nature® Remote Sensing Technology
The USACE Engineering With Nature® (EWN) program uses remote sensing methods to help practitioners plan projects that align natural processes and engineering capability for greater benefits. Remotely sensed data can reveal changes over the life of a project to quantify benefits and communicate project outcomes. View on Videos
29 July 2018 – NNBF for Coastal Resilience hosted by International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE)
The US Army Corps of Engineers organized and conducted (July 29, 2018) a short course titled, “Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) for Coastal Resilience” in association with the International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE) 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. The short course included a range of topics with a focus on current and emerging NNBF applications in coastal settings. Course lectures were offered by 14 speakers from a diverse set of organizations that are applying Engineering With Nature (EWN) practices in pursuit of enhanced coastal resilience.
A Novel Wave Attenuator: Wave Transmission Testing Results
Walter Marine and Atlantic Reefmaker entered into a testing service agreement with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to perform wave transmission experimental testing on a novel wave attenuator product. This testing was meant to evaluate the reduction in wave height provided by the Reefmaker Ecosystems Wave Attenuator structure using a physical […]
Improving Coastal Resilience in One of North America’s Oldest Inhabited Settlements, Point Hope, Alaska
By Paula Whitfield & Leanne Poussard, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Background Jutting into the heart of the Chukchi Sea, 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the northwest coast of Alaska, is a gravel spit that is the site of one of the longest continuously inhabited village in the Americas. Twenty-five […]