Advancing nature-based solutions by leveraging Engineering With Nature® strategies and landscape architectural practices in highly collaborative settings
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)’s Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) initiative consistently promotes the use of collaboration for identifying innovative, nature-based solutions (NBS) that lead to more resilient communities and water-based infrastructure. In recent years, EWN researchers, in partnership with landscape architects (LAs) affiliated with the Dredge Research Collaborative […]
A framework for evaluating island restoration performance: A case study from the Chesapeake Bay
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management The use of natural habitats for coastal protection (also known as Nature-Based Solutions or NBS) in place of engineered structures like breakwaters and seawalls can yield a wide range of ecological and economic benefits. Despite these advantages, NBS are not commonly implemented for shoreline protection due to uncertainty over the […]
Integrating Engineering With Nature® strategies and landscape architecture techniques into the Sabine-to-Galveston Coastal Storm Risk Management Project
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management Damaging storm events frequently impact the Texas coast. In response, the US Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District (SWG) has undertaken the Sabine-to-Galveston (S2G) Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Project. This approximately $3.9B project includes numerous measures across several counties of the upper Texas coast, including levees, floodwalls, and pump […]
A Hemimysis-driven novel ecosystem at a modified rubble-mound breakwater: An Engineering With Nature® Demonstration Project
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) repairs aging breakwater structures as part of routine maintenance to maintain safe navigation in Great Lakes commercial ports. A USACE repair to an existing breakwater structure in Milwaukee Harbor (WI) implementing Engineering With Nature (EWN) principles created complex rocky habitat by strategically placing […]
Monitoring the Milwaukee Harbor Breakwater: An Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) Demonstration Project
ERDC Technical Report The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) maintains breakwaters in Mil-waukee Harbor. USACE’s Engineering With Nature® (EWN) breakwater demonstration project created rocky aquatic habitat with cobbles (10–20 cm) covering boulders (6–8 metric tons) along a 152 m section. A prolific population of Hemimysis anomala, an introduced Pontocaspian mysid and important food source […]
Nature Based Approaches to Urban Shoreline Management – Biohabitats Expert Q&A
Dr. Todd Bridges, recent interview discusses nature-based solutions and future coastal resilience. When we hear the word “infrastructure,” we typically think of things like roads, power grids, pipelines, drinking water supply, airports, wastewater, and telecommunications. While all of this infrastructure is necessary for modern life, there is an entire suite of infrastructure that is equally […]
Building with Nature – Creating, implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions
Ecoshape Dr. Todd Bridges, shares the complementary work of Engineering with Nature in the book and in a recorded interview with EcoShape. Over the past decade, EcoShape has collaboratively designed, realised, monitored, and researched multiple projects that involve building with nature, not only in the Netherlands but also across Europe and in South East Asia. […]
2014 Egmont Key Beneficial Use of High Fines Material Using Traditional Versus Cross Shore Swash Zone Placement
WEDA Journal of Dredging The periodic maintenance dredging of the Tampa Harbor Entrance Channel commenced during the fall of 2014 through the winter season with beach placement on Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge and State Park. Due to severe erosion on Egmont Key, the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) made an exception […]
Utilization of Passive and Active Mechanical Dewatering Technologies to Process Navigational Dredged Material on a Small Footprint
WEDA Journal of Dredging The Office of Maritime Resources (OMR) of the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is responsible for maintaining 200 nautical miles of shallow draft navigation channels statewide. The Shark River Channel and Spur and Shark River Bay, Monmouth County, New Jersey provide access for recreational and commercial marine traffic including commercial […]
Marsh Habitat with Beneficial Use of Dredged Sediment from a Riverine Environment
WEDA Journal of Dredging Using dredged sediment from riverine environments is a critical component of large-scale (projected multi-billion dollar) restoration efforts in coastal Louisiana (USA) to decrease losses sustained from coastal land loss. West Bay (Louisiana) USA is a 12,000-acre sub-delta adjacent to the Mississippi River that typifies risks of coastal land loss (e.g., loss […]
