(Top left): Team discussions being held in the GTM NERR auditorium. (Bottom left): Workshop attendees tour potential placement sites with local stakeholders on a pontoon boat. (Right): Local salt marsh areas experiencing ponding are potential TL...
31 January – 1 February 2023. The Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN) held its first in-person advisory committee meeting hosted by LimnoTech’s Washington, D.C. office. The N-EWN advisory committee consists of two representativ...
24-25 January 2023. The Engineering With Nature (EWN) initiative held a workshop in the USACE Chicago District to initiate the three-year development of specific guidance and protocols for incorporating natural and nature-based features (NNBF...
The Department of the Navy (DON) hosted a discussion on nature-based climate resilience. This meeting is part of a collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineer’s Engineering With Nature® program.
Stakeholder participants shared ongoing i...
Natural infrastructure in coastal areas provides critical functions to increase coastal resiliency, manage flood risks, and enhance ecosystem services. Threats from sea level rise, increasing severe weather events, and urban densification intensif...
Flood control projects such as levees are part of the Nation’s aging infrastructure. After repeated flood damage and repairs, repairing in-place becomes challenging, especially with the possibility of more frequent or extreme flood events associa...
Military installations in the desert Southwest are grappling with the challenges posed by a range of natural hazards, such as drought, heat, winds, wildfire, desertification, earthquakes and soil erosion. An Engineering with Nature (EWN) workshop ...
24-25 August 2021. This two-day virtual event featured over 40 participants from across the Department of Defense, U.S. Government, industry, non-government organizations, and academia to examine ways to increase resilience on DoD installations us...
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.
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...