Tag: natural infrastructure
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Integrating Biodiversity with Water Management Engineering
Sustainable development approaches to infrastructure and water management have begun to prioritize biodiversity conservation and ecological conditions as key outcomes and objectives. Calls for including species and ecosystems in water resources decision-making come from the growing global understanding of a worldwide biodiversity crisis, marked by unprecedented losses stemming from diverse human-caused pressures. The essential connections…
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September 2022 Knowledge Series: Opportunities for Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) in Unique Island Contexts: Puerto Rico
Dave Hampton, LimnoTech and Burton Suedel, ERDC-EL Our guest speakers will present EWN® highlights from the March 2022 symposium: Basin Sediment Management for Unique Island Topography: From Mountain to Estuary, featuring lessons learned from site visits throughout the Añasco River watershed and exploring exciting opportunities for green infrastructure (GI), Low Impact Development (LID) and tropical island…
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July 2022 Knowledge Series: Consideration of Natural Infrastructure for Flood Hazard Reduction: in a numerical modeling framework
Matthew Bilskie, University of Georgia Using science and engineering to produce operational efficiencies, using natural processes to maximize benefit, increasing the value provided by projects to include social, environmental and economic benefits, using collaborative processes to organize, engage and focus interests, stakeholders and partners. Watch the recording here. The N-EWN Knowledge Series offers 1 Continuing…
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June 2022 Knowledge Series: Economic Valuation of Nature-Based Infrastructure
Ben Blachly, Susana Ferreira, Yukiko Hashida, Grace Anne Ingham, Craig E Landry & Anna Perry The common method used to calculate Benefit-cost analysis does not incorporate the often-times greater long-term benefits of natural infrastructure (NI) over conventional approaches, putting the selection of NI at a disadvantage. Several groups are moving toward an ecosystem services approach to identifying benefits that people obtain…
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May 2022 Knowledge Series: Toolkit for ERDC’s Coastal Storm (CSTORM) Modeling System
Amanda Tritinger, USACE & Matthew Bilskie, UGA Currently, incorporating EWN-based flood protection and restoration designs into storm surge and wave numerical modeling systems is a time-consuming and laborious process. Leveraging codes from the developed Coastal STORM (CSTORM) model framework, this research develops an EWN CSTORM toolkit that can be implemented to streamline the inclusion of EWN…
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Happening today! The NASEM Benefits, Applications and Opportunities of Natural Infrastructure Workshop
We’re excited that the NASEM Benefits, Applications and Opportunities of Natural Infrastructure Workshop is finally happening! The event explores the benefits, applications, and opportunities of natural infrastructure and its efficacy in areas such as natural hazard resilience, climate change adaptation, and sustainable, multi-purpose infrastructure. N-EWN Member Dr. Marshall Shepherd snapped the photo above of Provost…
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April 2022 Knowledge Series: Restoring the Nisqually River
Daniel Krenz, USACE In 2009, the tidal waters of Puget Sound breached the Brown Farm Dike in efforts to restore the Nisqually Delta. This was the culmination of the largest tidal marsh restoration project in the Pacific Northwest. Daniel Krenz, regulatory section chief and project manager with the USACE Seattle District, discusses the history of…
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March 2022 Knowledge Series: Refining a Vision for Future Synergy Between Infrastructure and Biodiversity Conservation
Charles van Rees, UGA This webinar focuses on the relationship between Biodiversity and its conservation and Infrastructure and related disciplines, why this is important for today’s challenges, what this relationship looks like, how it has changed, and what it will look like in the future. Dr. Charles B. van Rees addresses what we can do…
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February 2022 Knowledge Series: Monitoring and Adaptive Management in EWN Projects
Safra Altman, USACE Technically sound, efficient and applicable methods are needed to track natural infrastructure performance over time, develop the evidence base for future designs, ensure compliance with policy, and inform project operations and adaptive management. Dr. Safra Altman discusses a holistic monitoring framework for natural infrastructure, the specific considerations for monitoring before and after…
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January 2022 Knowledge Series: Quantifying the Multi-Scale Benefits of Natural and Nature-Based Features
Todd M. Swannack, USACE Natural and nature-based features (NNBF) provide a diverse suite of benefits to society, including flood risk reduction, socio-economic development, water and food security, and habitat. Unlike traditional structural measures, benefits of NNBF accrue over time due to the inherent dynamism of natural features. Capturing and quantifying the benefits requires a multi-scale…