The Network for Engineering With Nature_® (EWN) invites you to the N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature—Tribal Engagement in Engineering With Nature, with Brian Zettle, Tribal Nations Center for Technical Expertise. This 1-hour Zoom webinar took place October 19, 2023 at 12:30pm ET.

For previously recorded seminars, please visit the N-EWN Seminars page.

Brian A. Zettle is a Senior Biologist and Tribal Liaison for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tribal Nations Technical Center of Expertise (TNTCX) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, working closely with engineers and natural scientists across the USACE to integrate Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (I-TEK) and cultural keystone species into ecosystem restoration and climate change resiliency projects and studies. Mr. Zettle also works closely with Tribal communities to ensure their interests and worldviews are equitably represented in the USACE research portfolio. As part of the Federal government’s trust responsibility to Tribal Nations, USACE has a legal and moral obligation to ensure we are good stewards of tribal trust resources. As such, the USACE Tribal Nations Technical Center of Expertise (TNTCX) was created to support USACE work with federally recognized Tribes across the enterprise to address some of the toughest water resource, cultural, Treaty Trust resources, and environmental challenges in the Nation. Often this work occurs at the intersection of Western science, Indigenous knowledge and traditional ecological knowledge (I-TEK), and Engineering with Nature (EWN). The purpose of this presentation is to introduce new N-EWN members to the TNTCX and discuss how I-TEK and EWN can compliment and inform water resource projects.