Research Status: Active

This much needed research will work to integrate nature-based solutions (NBS) into risk science and insurance. The research, conducted in partnership with the University of California Santa Cruz, Center for Coastal Cl...

Water level management (WLM) is an important management approach for many different benefits at reservoirs including threatened and endangered species (TES) management.  Whooping Cranes (WHCR) are an endangered specie...

Understanding the social and economic landscape is important for nature-based projects. Unfortunately, many standard USACE business practices present institutional obstacles for identifying stakeholders and learning a...

This project proposes to develop innovative concretes with environmentally sustainable alternative binders that deliver excellent chemical and mechanical resilience with significantly increased biological compatibilit...

Large navigable rivers have been modified in ways that channelize main channels and isolate off-channel aquatic areas to concentrate flow to create safe and efficient navigation channels.  Channelization eliminat...

Extensive modifications of the landscape in the continental U.S. Great Plains and Midwest for agriculture has completely changed the hydrologic, sediment transport, and water quality characteristics of watersheds and ...

Operational Beach Management Practices to Encourage Resilient Dune Development is a project designed to encourage consistent communication between the scientific community and coastal regulatory agencies to ensure tha...

Infrastructure design focusing solely on engineering functionality misses opportunities to realize natural resource enhancements to achieve additional economic, environmental, and social benefits. Traditional manufact...

The pallid sturgeon is a federally endangered big-river fish species. It is the position of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (U.S. FWS) that over time, river training structures have adversely affected pallid sturgeon by im...

Maintaining a natural channel within a normal range of geomorphic dimensions and biological conditions with engineered, hydraulic structures is important for several reasons including sediment transport, depth variati...