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 […]
Summary of Threatened and Endangered Species Team Workshop: ESA Section 7(A)(1) Conservation Planning in the South Pacific Division
Ecological Habitat Modeling Workshop held at the USFWS’s Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center in Cambridge, Maryland
In summer 2018, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MDDNR) began monitoring the restoration of Swan Island in Chesapeake Bay. Serving as a natural breakwater for the nearby […]
Taiwan Water Resources Agency Visit “Engineering With Nature”
Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) 2019 Sustainability Training Forum: Puget Sound Recovery & the Built Environment
The SAME 2019 Sustainability Forum was hosted at the University of Washington, Husky Union Building (HUB). This one-day training forum featured keynote speaker Dr. Todd Bridges, USACE National Lead for the Engineering With Nature Initiative (EWN) and Luncheon Speaker Stephanie Solien, Vice Chair Puget Sound Partnership, Co-Chair Southern Resident Orca Task Force. The training forum […]
