Tag: natural infrastructure
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August 2023 Knowledge Series: Fostering Collaborative Networks to Implement Natural & Nature-Based Features In Jamaica Bay
Jonathan Hallemeier, ERDC/EWN Natural and Nature Based Features (NNBF) are promising tools in efforts to enhance social and ecological resilience to threats, such as coastal flooding exacerbated by climate-driven sea level rise and weather events. However, implementing NNBF remains a challenge – in addition to the complexity faced by any infrastructure project, NNBF projects routinely…
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An Overview Of Natural Infrastructure – An ASCE Webinar
Nature-based solutions (NbS) hold great promise as techniques for addressing multiple crises related to aging infrastructure, biodiversity decline, and climate adaptation. Generally speaking, these solutions use natural processes to provide infrastructure outcomes while also including environmental and social co-benefits. The Fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme adopted…
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June 2023 Knowledge Series: Principles Of Engineering With Nature In The Water Resources Development Act 2022
Matt Shudtz & Yee Huang, University of Georgia Last December, President Biden signed the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA ’22) into law. It is the latest in a decades-long series of biennial statutes that authorize new studies, construction starts, and other programs at the Corps of Engineers. Shudtz and Huang have taken a deep dive…
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April 2023 Knowledge Series: Blue Carbon Storage Potential In USACE Beneficial Use Projects
Jacob Berkowitz & Nia Hurst, ERDC Wetlands provide a variety of valuable ecosystem services such as storm surge reduction, floodwater attenuation, and water quality improvement. Additionally, coastal ecosystems play an important role in global climate regulation via carbon (C) sequestration and storage. “Blue Carbon” is defined as C stored in coastal environments such as tidal marshes, mangroves, and seagrass…
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March 2023 Knowledge Series: The Cold Region Frontiers Of Engineering With Nature
Lauren Bosche, CRREL When you think of Engineering With Nature, you may picture a beach nourishment project along the Gulf Coast, or a dredged material project exploring beneficial use of the material on the Mississippi River. But EWN in cold regions – above the Arctic Circle? Maybe it is still hard to picture that. Yet…
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February 2023 Knowledge Series: A Work in Progress: Adapting to Climate impacts in San Francisco Bay using Engineering With Nature
Julie R. Beagle, Environmental Planning Section Chief and Engineering With Nature Program Manager, USACE Julie Beagle, Environmental Planning Section Chief and Engineering With Nature Program Manager, outlines the reasons EWN is critical as an approach in the San Francisco Bay Area, and describes some successes, challenges, and paths forward as the USACE embraces Engineering With…
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January 2023 Knowledge Series: Application of Natural & Nature-Based Features in Channel Stabilization
David Biedenharn, Research Hydraulic Engineer, USACE Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC) Guest speaker Dr. David Biedenharn is a professional engineer with over forty years of experience in hydraulics, river engineering, sedimentation, channel restoration, and fluvial geomorphology. He is presently a Research Hydraulic Engineer with the USACE Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC). He has been a leader in advancing…
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December 2022 Knowledge Series: Dam Removal Prioritization with Multiple Objectives
Laura Naslund, PhD candidate, University of Georgia Guest speaker Laura Catherine Naslund is a PhD candidate in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Her current research examines the contribution of small dams and their reservoirs to greenhouse gas emissions from freshwaters. Proactive and transparent decision making about the long-term management of dams is critical…
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November 2022 Knowledge Series: EWN Activities on Upper Mississippi River
Eddie Brauer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District Eddie Brauer is a senior hydraulic engineer in the USACE St. Louis District (MVS) and regional technical specialist in river engineering for the Mississippi Valley Division. He has 19 years of project experience, which includes navigation; environmental restoration; research on river training structures, including physical effects and environmental impacts; sediment…
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October 2022 Knowledge Series: Translating EWN Research into Practice: Levee Setbacks on the Lower Missouri River
Matt Chambers, University of Georgia Guest speaker Matt Chambers discusses modeling studies that he and his colleagues have performed which suggest significant hydraulic benefits in idealized streams and on the Wabash River. This research is being translated into practice on the Lower Missouri River in partnership with the USACE Omaha District, ERDC, and local levee district managers.…