N-EWN Seminar: Dutch experience with beaches and dunes as coastal Natural and Nature Based Features for Flood Risk Management – An overview of 30 years of nature-based coastline management
Coastal erosion threatens beaches and dunes globally. In the Netherlands, a coastline maintenance policy was implemented in the 1990’s to combat this erosion, with sand nourishments as the primary means. As a result, the Dutch coast is one of the most heavily nourished coasts globally with an average of 12 mln. m3 that is annually […]
N-EWN Seminar: Waterfront Design for Resilient Communities
This webinar will discuss emerging trends in waterfront design with a focus on embedding resilience, providing access, and ecology in urban waterfronts. The presentation will include an overview of the Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG®) and case study projects from riverine, lacustrine, and coastal waterfronts across the U.S. The Network for Engineering With Nature® (N-EWN) invites […]
N-EWN Seminar: Streamlined Success: Delivering Fish Passage in Complex Urban Systems
Fish passage restoration is a cornerstone of aquatic ecosystem conservation and resilience. Restoring access to historic habitats supports healthy fish populations and benefits entire riverine and marine ecosystems, vital to biodiversity and the revitalization of commercial and recreational fisheries, which in turn creates jobs and increases ecological and economic resilience in rivers that run through […]
N-EWN Seminar: Beyond the Dredge: Boosting Remediation Impact with Nature-Based Solutions – The Money Point Case
Located on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake, Virginia, Money Point was once among the most contaminated sites on the Chesapeake Bay. Decades of industrial activity, including wood treatment operations, left the riverbed coated with toxic creosote. By 2006, the river bottom was biologically dead, and the few remaining fish showed high […]
N-EWN Seminar: Harnessing Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) as a Natural Infrastructure Tool for Water Quality & Biodiversity
Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), encompassing both freshwater macrophytes and saltwater seagrasses, serves as a powerful natural infrastructure tool for enhancing water quality and biodiversity. The presentation “Harnessing Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) as a Natural Infrastructure Tool for Water Quality & Biodiversity” investigates how SAV can be engineered into hybrid green/gray infrastructure and restoration projects across […]
N-EWN Seminar: Co-producing Coastal Resilience: The Stone Living Lab as a Collaborative Model for Testing Nature-Based Approaches
The Stone Living Lab brings research into the real world by designing and testing Nature-based Approaches (NbAs) for coastal resilience on urban shorelines. A partnership with municipal, state and federal government agencies, and in collaboration with members of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag, the Lab emphasizes research that directly informs NbA implementation and education for […]
N-EWN Seminar: Life Depends on Rivers: Building a Movement to Protect and Restore America’s Rivers
Rivers are essential to all life on earth, but our rivers are at risk as never before from climate change, pollution, drought, flooding, and loss of natural habitat. American Rivers is championing a national effort to protect and restore all rivers, from remote mountain streams to urban waterways. We have 50 years of experience addressing […]
N-EWN Seminar: The Lower Klamath Project – The World’s Largest Dam Removal and River Restoration Project
Removal of four hydropower dams (Iron Gate, Copco 1, Copco 2, and J.C. Boyle) on the Klamath River in northern California and southern Oregon represents the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the country. The project restores free-flowing conditions and volitional fish passage to more than 400 miles of historic anadromous fish habitat […]
Natural Infrastructure Short Course at State of the Coast 2025
New Orleans, LA – May 23, 2025 — At the 2025 State of the Coast Conference—the premier gathering for coastal stakeholders in Louisiana—the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) program delivered a dynamic half-day short course on implementing Natural Infrastructure (NI) in estuarine systems. Bringing together science, design, and engineering, this workshop […]
EWN Natural and Nature-Based Features Playbook for the Arid Southwest
The Arid Southwest NNBF Playbook Workshop, held May 7–8, 2025, in Albuquerque, NM, brought together more than 35 participants from over 20 federal, state, tribal, academic, and non-governmental organizations. Hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in collaboration with the Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) initiative, the workshop was designed to support the development […]
