Category: Knowledge Series
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October 2024 Knowledge Series: The Evolution of a Resilient Coastal Community
Over 20 Years of Beaches, Back Bays, Rivers and Stormwater in Norfolk, Virginia Brian Joyner, Moffatt & Nichol, and Kelli Cunningham, Waggonner & Ball Since 2003, the City of Norfolk, Virginia has been investigating coastal/estuarine/river erosion issues, compound urban coastal floodingissues, developing long-range resilience plans, and constructing infrastructure projects to improve its diverse communities’ resilience…
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September 2024 Knowledge Series: Watershed Modeling Efforts In The City Of Austin
Abel Porras, Supervising Engineer with 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 variety of questions related to erosion and water pollution. The impetus for these models was…
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August 2024 Knowledge Series: Living Breakwaters and Other Nature-based Adaptation Projects
Pippa Brashear, RLA, Resilience Principal & Partner, SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC 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 the South Shore of Staten Island, NY. The project consists primarily of 2,400…
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July 2024 Knowledge Series: The Proposed Future of Planning for USACE Water Resources Investments
Jeff Morris, Senior Planning & Economics Consultant at Moffatt & Nichol The central theme of this presentation focuses on the evolution of Federal objectives since the proposed practices for economics analysis in 1950 to the most recently proposed USACE’s Agency Specific Procedures (ASP) for Implementation of the Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines (PR&G) for Water Resources Investments.…
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June 2024 Knowledge Series: Design for Biodiversity: Nature-Inclusive Applications in Urban Waterfronts & Coastal Infrastructure
Dr. Ido Sella, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at ECOncrete Tech When it comes to planning and constructing coastal and marine infrastructure, promoting nature-inclusive design has multiple financial, structural and ecological benefits. Through project casestudies, we’ll explore different applications of science-driven, nature-inclusive construction and gain a deeper understanding of ecosystem services in urban and working waterfronts, as…
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May 2024 Knowledge Series: Remote Sensing Capabilities to Support EWN Projects
Molly Reid, Research Geographer and Team Lead, Christina Saltus, Research Geographer, & Glenn Suir, Research Agronomist and Adjunct Professor, USACE ERDC Environmental Lab 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…
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April 2024 Knowledge Series: CarbonWATCH – Assessing Your Carbon Inventory at the Landscape Level Using Geospatial Technology
Grant Wiseman, Brendan Player & Dr. Martha Farella, Stantec 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 become vitally important to a variety of businesses and sectors. Stantec’s CarbonWATCH tool measures the…
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March 2024 Knowledge Series: Advancing Dredging and Innovative Beneficial Use Practices for More Resilient Systems
Monica Chasten, EWN Proving Ground Lead, USACE Philadelphia District & Lenore P. Tedesco, Executive Director, The Wetlands Institute 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 and placement activities in New Jersey,…
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February 2024 Knowledge Series: Tools for Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Application in Stream Restoration
Liya Abera, PhD, Engineer Research and Development Center, USACE 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 adaptive management actions, long-term operations and maintenance, and eventually disposal. Engineering economics methods exist…
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January 2024 Knowledge Series: Real-Time, Cloud-Based Hydraulic Modeling with HEC RAS Using the Dam Screening Tool (DST)
Garrett Menichino, PhD, PE, CFM, Research Civil Engineer, Environmental Laboratory, Engineer Research and Development Center, USACE Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) are increasingly recognized as flood risk management solutions that can provide environmental, social, and economic benefits. However, there are few planning-level tools available for screening NNBF for flood risk management projects. The Dam Screening Tool (DST) is…