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Engineering With Nature

Engagements & Events

Collaboration is a key element of Engineering With Nature. These engagements provide the opportunity to hear experts speak about EWN applications and concepts or gather teams to find nature-based solutions.

Upcoming Engagements

17
April
2025
The Network for Engineering With Nature® (EWN) invites you to the N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature—Making the Case for Nature-Based Solutions: Ecosystem Services, Benefit-Cost Analyses, and Storyt...
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20
March
2025
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...
26
February
2025
The Great Lakes Engineering With Nature (EWN) Playbook Workshop, hosted by the ERDC EWN Program and supported by the USACE Chicago District, brought together experts from government, academia, and private industry to discuss coastal resilience str...
20
February
2025
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 Ecosyst...
16
January
2025
Current engineering practices and regulations for vegetation on levees primarily use non-native, annual or perennial turf grasses. These plants typically have thin, fibrous, shallow roots, require regular labor-intensive mowing, and provide little...
17
October
2024
Since 2003, the City of Norfolk in Virginia has been investigating coastal/estuarine/river erosion issues, compound urban coastal flooding issues, developing long-range resilience plans, and constructing infrastructure projects to improve its dive...
19
September
2024
The City of Austin Watershed Protection Department (WPD) is charged with protecting the lives and property of City of Austin residents from flooding, erosion, and water pollution. To that end, WPD has developed watershed models to answer a va...
15
August
2024
Widely considered a model for climate-adaptive nature-based infrastructure, Living Breakwaters is a $107 million project that provides a layered approach to resilience and risk reduction—enhancing physical, ecological and social resilience along t...
18
July
2024
The central theme of this presentation, “The Proposed Future of Planning for USACE Water Resources Investments”, focuses on the evolution of Federal objectives since the proposed practices for economics analysis in 1950 to the most recently propos...
27
June
2024
Join us for a comprehensive exploration of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) at the upcoming Western Dredging Association (WEDA) Short Course on Nature-based Solutions Engineering and Construction. This one-day course will provide valuable insights int...
20
June
2024
When it comes to planning and constructing coastal and marine infrastructure, promoting nature-inclusive design has multiple financial, structural and ecological benefits. Through project case studies, we’ll explore different applications of scien...
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