Monica Chasten is a Coastal Engineer and Project Manager with the Operations Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Philadelphia. Her responsibilities include oversight of federal coastal navigation projects in New Jersey and Delaware.
Ms. Chasten has over 37 years of experience with hydraulic and coastal engineering projects specializing in dredging, beach nourishment, inlet processes, regional sediment management and coastal structures. Serving as the lead for the Philadelphia District’s Engineering with Nature Proving Ground and a co-founder of the Seven Mile Island Innovation Laboratory, she has been instrumental in developing, constructing, and monitoring innovative projects that use dredged material to restore marsh and support resilient shorelines.
Dedicated to advancing science and evolving practice along our dynamic coasts, Ms. Chasten started her career at the Corps’ Coastal Engineering Research Center. She received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Drexel University and an M.S. in Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering from Lehigh University.
Ms. Chasten serves as the point of contact for the Philadelphia District’s Engineering With Nature (EWN) Proving Ground—part of a USACE network advancing the integration of EWN principles by implementing innovative approaches for broader adoption.
Engineering With Nature® is the intentional alignment of natural and engineering processes to efficiently and effectively deliver economic, ecological, and social benefits through collaboration.