USACE and NOAA: Joint EWN Briefing on The Hill
USACE’s Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) and NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) provide joint briefing on Feb 25, 2021 to All Interested Parties on The Hill. Presenters, Dr. Steve Thur, NCCOS Director, Dr. Todd Bridges USACE Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Jenny Davis, NCCOS Research Ecologist and Monica Chasten, Project Manager, Operations Division Philadelphia […]
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Engineering With Nature presented at the University of Aberdeen by Dr. Brian McFall
EWN Seminar Series: Dow’s Valuing Nature Journey: How a Multinational Chemical Corporation is Realizing Value by Incorporating Nature in Its Business Decisions
In this presentation you’ll hear from representatives from Dow and The Nature Conservancy on Dow’s commitment to identifying $1B in net present value through the Valuing Nature Goal, tools and work processes developed to support the goal, as well as challenges and successes in driving culture change. The team will also present on two projects […]
EWN Seminar Series: N-EWN: The Network for Engineering With Nature, Developing Future Practice and Practitioners
The University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature Initiative have formed a partnership. N-EWN will be a clearing house for tools, products and outreach for nature-based solutions and natural infrastructure projects. Today we’ll learn more about how N-EWN will work to prepare the engineers, […]
EWN Seminar Series: Coordination of Built and Natural Infrastructure to Enhance Human-Natural Water System Resilience
Natural infrastructure offers a promising, soft-path solution to water security challenges, but the scientific framework for siting and measuring the efficacy of such restoration projects is nascent. In this study, we addressed this research gap in the Brazos River basin, the largest river basin in Texas, USA, and a basin undergoing intensifying extremes (drought and […]
NNBF Symposium at Edinburgh’s Centre for Carbon Innovation, Edinburgh, Scotland
During May 16th –17th, 2019, England’s Environment Agency and USACE’s Engineering With Nature (EWN) Initiative hosted a Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) Symposium at Edinburgh’s Centre for Carbon Innovation, Edinburgh, Scotland. Over 100 people from 15 different countries attended the symposium, which offered a range of topics including, but not limited to: the UK’s Building With […]
Engineering With Nature for Sustainable Infrastructure, TAMU Ocean Engineering Departmental Seminar by Dr. Todd Bridges
NNBF Scotland – Spring 2019
Sixth, In-Person Technical Meeting of International Working Group Developing Guidelines for Use of Natural and Nature-Based Features: From May 13th-15th, more than 45 people participated in the sixth, in-person meeting of an international working group being led by USACE to develop guidelines for use of Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF). The meeting was hosted by England’s […]
EWN Seminar: Engineering With Nature meets with University of Oklahoma, Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds (CREW); guest presenter, Dr. Robert Nairn, Director of CREW at OU.
Topic Ecotoxic Metal Retention in Ecologically-Engineered, Passive Treatment Systems: An Engineering With Nature Application in Small Mid-Continent Watersheds Water quality degradation due to past mining practices has led to substantial ecological damage in small watersheds of the Central United States. The University of Oklahoma Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds (CREW) has led efforts […]
