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This week: LimnoTech launches the “Nature-Based Solutions Benefits Explorer Version 2”
Check out the launch of the “Nature-Based Solutions Benefits Explorer Version 2” on Thursday, February 1, at 11:00 a.m. ET (8:00 a.m. PT). “The NBS Benefits Explorer, part of the Water Action Hub (a suite of digital tools for corporate water stewardship), is designed to serve as a key starting point for organizations looking to…
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N-EWN publications from our partners at the University of New Hampshire
N-EWN publications from our partners at the University of New Hampshire Our partners at the University of New Hampshire recently published three papers in line with N-EWN research. Read about them below! Short-Term Recovery of Pilot Living Shoreline Projects for Salt Marsh Habitat in New Hampshire Over the past 6 years, the New Hampshire (NH) Department…
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EWN Podcast S6 E10: A Conversation With Florence Williams About The Nature Fix
Need some New Year entertainment? Go check out the latest Engineering With Nature Podcast, S6 E10: A Conversation With Florence Williams About The Nature Fix. Learn more and listen here. About the episode Can nature make us happier, healthier and more creative? The simple answer is yes, . . . and it’s been scientifically proven. In Season 6, Episode 10, hosts…
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Growth of EWN featured in UF Center for Coastal Solutions’ Directors Note
The University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS) recently published their November 2023 Director’s Note reviewing the accomplishments of CCS’s team this year. These accomplishments included their annual summit on Dec. 1, which focused on “optimizing actionable solutions for resilient coasts, in the context of the emerging risks facing our coastal communities, which call…
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Engineering With Nature recently featured by U.S. Department of Defense
In a recent article, DOD Officials Highlight Climate and Energy Security Issues at International Conference, Assistant Secretary of the Army Rachel Jacobsen spoke to the Engineering With Nature initiative’s ability to help create resilient communities. “The Army is focused on solutions,” she said. “We use ‘Engineering with Nature’ to bolster infrastructure resilience, and we are working…
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N-EWN at ASCE INSPIRE
N-EWN at ASCE INSPIRE Nov. 16-18, 2023 A number of N-EWN partners were represented at the American Society for Civil Engineers’ INSPIRE Conference this past November. The conference took place over three days (Thursday, Nov 16 – Saturday, Nov. 18) in Arlington, Virginia, and several of our affiliates gave presentations, showed posters, or spoke in…
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N-EWN team to leverage AI, remote sensing for NASA-funded conservation project
In a grant project focused on levee setbacks, UGA scientists are filling a critical gap in biodiversity benefit assessment for USACE. ATHENS, Ga., Nov. 9, 2023—NASA recently awarded $600,000 to a project spearheaded by University of Georgia scientists Charles van Rees and Seth Wenger. The project, funded by a Research Opportunities in Space and Earth…
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On ecological restoration projects and landscape design processes: a recap from the October N-EWN Highlights meeting
At our October Monthly Highlights meeting for N-EWN Partner members, affiliates Christopher Streb, Senior Ecological Engineer at Biohabitats, and Kelsey Broich, Creative Design Specialist with the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, presented respectively on the Regeneration Principle of ecological restoration projects and landscape design processes. Streb gave examples of projects Biohabitats has worked on, such…
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EWN S6 E7 2023-A Conversation With Passionate Dune Stewards
The latest episode of the Engineering With Nature podcast, hosted by Sarah Thorne, features Deputy Lead of the Engineering With Nature Program Amanda Tritinger, Research Hydraulic Engineer Duncan Bryant, and Research Oceanographer Nick Cohn: a team united by their love of sand dunes.
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N-EWN Knowledge Series: Tribal Engagement and Engineering with Nature: TNTCX, I-TEK, and EWN
Join us for the latest N-EWN Knowledge Series: Tribal Engagement and Engineering with Nature: TNTCX, I-TEK, and EWN Thursday at 12 p.m. EST, over Zoom Summary: Brian A. Zettle is a Senior Biologist and Tribal Liaison for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tribal Nations Technical Center of Expertise (TNTCX) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, working…