The EWN Podcast: Season 5

Listen in as collaborators from local, national and international agencies, private and not-for-profit organizations, and academia discuss ideas and applications of nature-based solutions.

Season 5 Episodes

S5 E10 – Building Coastal Resilience with Nature and Insurance

Climate change is increasing coastal hazards and putting people who live and work in coastal communities at risk. Host Sarah Thorne and Jeff King, National Lead of the Engineering...

S5 E9 – Foundational Research on Rebalancing with Blue Carbon

Coastal ecosystems provide an essential part of the solution to global climate change, along with multiple benefits. Among other things, coastal ecosystems sequester and store “bl...

S5 E8 – Visionary Ideas for Restoring America’s Estuaries

Over 40% of Americans—that’s 130 million people—live along the coasts of the United States. That high concentration of people is putting a lot of pressure on sensitive coastal eco...

S5 E7 – Celebrating the 30-Year USACE Career of Todd Bridges

This very special episode of the EWN Podcast features Todd Bridges, Founder and National Lead of the Engineering With Nature Program. We’re celebrating his 30-year career and reti...

S5 E6 – A Conversation about EWN, Innovation, and Leadership with LTG Spellmon

In this episode, Lieutenant General Scott Spellmon joins Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science and National Lead for the Engineering With Nature (EWN) ...

S5 E5 – Accelerating NBS Progress through N-EWN Multisectoral Collaboration

The Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN), which we introduced in Season 1, Episode 10, is a community of researchers, practitioners, and educators who are working together ...

S5 E4 – Measuring What Matters

How do we measure what’s most important to us? And how do we translate those values into decisions about infrastructure projects so that they can deliver a diverse set of economic...

S5 E3 – What do You Want to Know about Nature? The National Nature Assessment

We often hear of the plight of the polar bear or how monarch butterflies are dwindling. These changes are important but just a small part of what’s happening with nature in Americ...

S5 E2 – Nature-Based Solutions from the Halls of the Exec Office of the President

What happens when a nation focuses on addressing the critical challenges posed by climate change by investing in nature? That’s what we’re talking about in Season 5, Episode 2, of...

S5 E1 – ERDC Labs Collaborating on Leading Edge 3D Printing Nature-Based Solutions

In the premiere episode of Season 5 of the Engineering With Nature® Podcast, host Sarah Thorne, and Burton Suedel, Research Biologist at the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), are...

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