N-EWN Knowledge Series Seminars

The Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN) invites you to join a monthly continuing education series about best practices, cutting-edge research, and the latest developments in the field of natural infrastructure. Continuing Education Credits (1-hr) are available to all attendees who join live or watch recorded seminars.

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November

2024

N-EWN Seminar: The Tibbetts Brook Daylighting and Greenway Project: Restoring a Waterway in New York City

This presentation will discuss the Tibbetts Brook Daylighting and Greenway project. Until the late 1800s, Tibbetts Brook flowed through Westchester, into the Bronx through the Van Cortlandt plantation to Van Cortlandt Lake, and meandered its way t...

October

2024

N-EWN Seminar: The Evolution of a Resilient Coastal Community: Over 20 Years of Beaches, Back Bays, Rivers and Stormwater in Norfolk, Virginia

Since 2003, the City of Norfolk in Virginia has been investigating coastal/estuarine/river erosion issues, compound urban coastal flooding issues, developing long-range resilience plans, and constructing infrastructure projects to improve its dive...

September

2024

N-EWN Seminar: Watershed Modeling Efforts in the City of Austin

The City of Austin Watershed Protection Department (WPD) is charged with protecting the lives and property of City of Austin residents from flooding, erosion, and water pollution. To that end, WPD has developed watershed models to answer a va...

August

2024

N-EWN Seminar: Living Breakwaters and Other Nature-Based Adaptation Projects

Widely considered a model for climate-adaptive nature-based infrastructure, Living Breakwaters is a $107 million project that provides a layered approach to resilience and risk reduction—enhancing physical, ecological and social resilience along t...

July

2024

N-EWN Seminar: The Proposed Future of Planning for USACE Water Resources Investments

The central theme of this presentation, “The Proposed Future of Planning for USACE Water Resources Investments”, focuses on the evolution of Federal objectives since the proposed practices for economics analysis in 1950 to the most recently propos...

June

2024

N-EWN Seminar: Design for Biodiversity: Nature-Inclusive Applications in Urban Waterfronts & Coastal Infrastructure

When it comes to planning and constructing coastal and marine infrastructure, promoting nature-inclusive design has multiple financial, structural and ecological benefits. Through project case studies, we’ll explore different applications of scien...

May

2024

N-EWN Seminar: Remote Sensing Capabilities to Support EWN Projects

There is an increasing opportunity and number of EWN® projects seeking support to use remotely sensed data and geospatial methodologies to help quantify environmental benefits. Remote sensing approaches are expected to be instrumental in illustrat...

April

2024

N-EWN Seminar: CarbonWATCH–Assessing your carbon inventory at the landscape level using geospatial technology

As climate change becomes an increasing threat, and organizations across the globe are setting ambitious net zero and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, assessing, inventorying, and monitoring carbon stock in plants and soils has b...

March

2024

N-EWN Seminar: Advancing Dredging and Innovative Beneficial Use Practices for More Resilient Systems

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Philadelphia District has been participating in the national Regional Sediment Management (RSM) and Engineering with Nature (EWN) Programs with considerable lessons learned developed for navigation dredging ...

February

2024

N-EWN Seminar: Tools for Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Application in Stream Restoration

Engineering projects typically require economic analysis of the costs and benefits of alternative actions. However, costs may not be distributed evenly over a project’s life cycle and may include initial capital investments, short-term adapt...

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